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Gaming Chair Woes (halp pleez!)

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Malific:
I'm a hardcore gamer, as I'm sure many of us are. And long time gaming requires the perfect place to put your butt.
As such I've been using an AK Rocker 200 (pictured) for the last 5-6 years now, but it's finally time to say good bye to it because the plastic base 'legs' have finally split beyond the ability to hold the chair up when I sit in it.

My immediate thoughts were of course "I'll just get a new one." Sadly this no longer seems to be possible. The Company that was at www.ak.com no longer is and even ebay and amazon are turning up only the 100 series of AK rockers.



If you look at this picture you'll see the AK 200 has legs on the back of it that prevent over tipping and they stop the chair at almost exactly 45 degrees the perfect angle for my gaming set-up. This is very important to me as I tend to lean back quite far and all the other gaming chairs which don't have a back stop (like the AK 100) always tip me over at the worst possible moment forcing me to save the world by fruitlessly waggling my feet at my enemies.

So this is where you come in, I can't seem to find any chairs with backstops on them. I'm looking for one that basically sits on the floor leans back about 50-40 degrees and then stops. I've been looking for a solid week now and can't seem to find a gaming chair that isn't intent on putting me in the shuttle launch position at every opportunity. Just hoping some one out there might already own one or have seen one recently.

Please help! The fate off all those fictional people I must save now rests on your shoulders!

AceHigh:
When I see the design of that chair, I notice how low you will sit. So then I think, it can't be possible to handle a keyboard and a mouse like that.

Soon I realized that this is perfect for sitting in front of TV with a gamepad. Then I got into this conflict about the claim that you are a hardcore gamer...  :P

Also, if googling is too hard for you, this is what I found:
http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=668180011

Malific:
I own: NES, SNES, GameCube, Wii, Genesis, PSX, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox360 x2, PC x4, Laptop x2, all in working order and currently hooked up to TV's/Monitors and used frequently. Yes, I am a hardcore gamer. I'm simply replacing one small piece of a nearly $15,000 gaming set-up that sprawls through multiple rooms of my household.

I'm quite capable of using Google and Amazon, and if you were capable of actually paying attention to my post and browsing the link you supplied you'll notice none of those chairs meet the requirements I'm asking for.

Thank you for attempting to belittle me and my call for help but if all you have to offer is thinly veiled criticisms please refrain from posting.

Now that the obligatory "use google" post has been made and dealt with, let's move along to useful information. Hopefully I'm not looking for something that doesn't exist.

blubart:
just glue a brick or something on the back of the 100 model? :P

Malific:
Lol, That would probably work but I'd rather not go with any jerry-rigging.

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