/vr/ - Retro Games

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I turned my retro game room into a 90s time capsule in a sense where I have almost no modern technology in there and the little that I do I use behind the scenes to enhance the experience.

TV: I have a 27" trinitron with an old computer I no longer use running dizqueTV loaded up with 90s commercials and shows from that era. I spent like a fucking month torrenting all that shit but it was worth it. VHS tapes are worth literal pennies so its not hard to amass a decent library and watching old horror movies with this setup is pretty great.

PC: Beige is your friend. Currently have a 13" CRT monitor with a dell mechanical keyboard and a ball mouse. I recently managed to acquire a beautiful beige tower which I threw windows 98SE onto. Some would say to stay off the internet but I beg to differ. Connect an ethernet cable up to it, go into Internet Explorer or Netscape's Proxy settings and connect to "theoldnet". Basically this pulls snapshots from the way back machine and displays them on your old browser so you can essentially browse the internet as it was in your desired year. Initially I was expecting this to be almost unusable due to anything that isn't a home page of some major website returning dead links as they weren't archived but it is surprisingly far more functional than I thought it would be. Managed to find some video game guides and news articles through Yahoo and it really feels like surfing the web in the late 90s. If you really wanna be autistic and still have a landline, you can dedicate a whole afternoon to building your own dialup modem.

Phone: Obviously you wanna keep this out of site and out of reach. I have a Cell2Jack that allows me to connect my smart phone to a landline phone via Bluetooth so I can use my old beige telephone to make and receive calls. I keep my smart phone locked away in another room over so I'm less inclined to distract myself with it while gaming.