/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10812194]

What was your setup for playing video games as a kid?
In my case it was a Genesis sitting on top of a wood cabinet TV from the late 70s with RF input.

[Anonymous No.10812226]

something like this

[Anonymous No.10812232]

>>10812194
A TV quite similar in style to that one, at first in my play room/foldout couch bedroom where I'd either stand or sit on the floor to play, then later in my bedroom, where I'd either sit on my bed or on the floor with my back to the bed.

[Anonymous No.10812243]

Playing my Game Boy plugged into a wall socket, under a lamp in a corner of the living room while my Dad watched TV, smoked cigs, and farted.

[Anonymous No.10812286]

kinda like this and i would sit on the floor and play

it was a little less blurry back then though

[Anonymous No.10812290]

TV in my bedroom, computer in my parent's room
Later on the house got bigger, I got a new room and my old room was now an "office" with both the TV and a new computer while the old computer was set up in the basement (extremely comfy). In my new room I'd just use GB/GBC/GBA

[Anonymous No.10812292]

>>10812194
I had a small zenith tv with rf only that had no remote
When I got my n64 we had a trinitron

[Anonymous No.10812293]

>>10812194
A TV on some kind of table. I had a dresser with the SNES and 64 on top, and inside were the games.

[Anonymous No.10812330]

>>10812286
I wish I had a photo of our old entertainment center. We had something like this, but it also had a narrow swing-out cabinet on the left side for VHS tapes.

[Anonymous No.10812376]

First gamer TV was a black and white TV about 10 inches big. It was my Mom's from her high school years in the seventies.

In the 80's we upgraded TV to a remote control so I inherited the old living room Zenith. It was big and heavy but had color.

Didn't get a TV until my own 30 somethibg inch CRT years later but used it up through the PS2 era.

Now I have close to an 80 inch flat screen that I use filters on to play pretty much exclusively old games. I have two X's and a switch but nothing is as fun as random games on Launchbox.

[Anonymous No.10812380]

>>10812194
I think i put my game console on the top of my tv exactly once when i was younger and immediately realized it was fucking retarded because the cable goes in front of the screen. Never did that shit again.

[Anonymous No.10812386]

>>10812194
I remember we had an old Zenith. We still have the actual TV mount downstairs, but the TV is long gone

[Anonymous No.10812402]

[Anonymous No.10812413]

>>10812386
I stayed at a motel in the 2010s that had a newer TV stacked on top of an older zenith cabinet. When I checked in they had told me the bottom one was for sound, the top one was for picture. This was in the Midwest in the middle of nowhere.

She told us the next day that they're not really a motel, more like camping with electricity lol

[Anonymous No.10812462]

>>10812194
NES and Genesis sitting on the floor next to one of these big fuckers.
As a teenager I had a 19-inch TV and one of those cheap TV stands in my bedroom, and had the N64 hooked up to that.

[Anonymous No.10812469]

>>10812194
Through the 90s, it was an entertainment center kind of like this >>10812286, but at some point instead of shelves on the side it was a more open spot that my parents put a smaller TV for me so neither of us would hog the only tube.
When we moved in the early 2000s, I got the small TV put in my room, which was exciting. Eventually I got a bigger one and the small one got moved to the kitchen - that was nice, because I could watch something while doing dishes. If I had a friend over, or wanted to watch Adult Swim while gaming, I'd move the little one into the living room and put it on a snack table or something. It only had RF on it, so I played a lot of PS1 through RF just because I wanted to watch cartoons at the same time.

[Anonymous No.10812482]

>>10812194
>>10812286
Wasn't actually expecting to find the one I had as a kid. I do remember a picture of myself playing Dragon Warrior fighting a Ghost. I remember having to argue with my mom to take that picture because she thought it was stupid (kodak camera, so all pictures had to count in my parents eyes due to the budget). I remember thinking it would make me look cool lol.

[Anonymous No.10812526]

Up until 1998, i only gamed on pc and handhelds. Then when i got a 64 for Christmas, i also got a small composite set with built in vhs. Used that set all through the 2000s. Unfortunately now it will auto shut off because i think the vhs part is fucked.

Got a cheap ikea computer desk for it which i also had a buch of systems on from 6th gen or ones i missed out on as i picked them up. Also had my families old rf only set which i used for Atari type stuff and sometimes nes and ps1. Had some old computers like a TRS 80 Model 3 and IBM XT. Also had a virtual boy on the perfect sized table for it for zero neck ache.

[Anonymous No.10812531]

a half broken crt right next to the cat box in the family room where i had to listen to my parents fight while i played games

[Anonymous No.10812576]

>>10812194
A early 80s color 21'' TV, fake wood grain sides, only a VHF tuner but did have a coaxial connector.
Not the same model or brand but was similar to pic related, each channel was it's own push button on the right side of the tube.
This TV was THE battle station all the way up to the early 00s. Went from the Commodore 64, to the NES, SNES, PSX, N64, and finally a PS2 on the thing.

[Anonymous No.10812629]

>>10812402
obligatory

[Anonymous No.10812636]

>>10812462
used to have one of those and literally had to smack it on its side sometimes cause the picture would be all fucked

[Anonymous No.10812773]

Some old Zenith with two knobs in front for UHF and VHF channels and RF input set to channel 4 for slightly better picture quality than the default 3. My dad ended up junking the Zenith, but I miss that old TV, and I can't seem to find a model Zenith that looks like it.

[Anonymous No.10812775]

>>10812773
Oh yeah, and I forgot to say that SNES was my console.

[Anonymous No.10812776]

>>10812462
Soul.

[Popckorn !BuTtER.O4. No.10813831]

Around 95... This with a purple SNES
Around 98... This with a PSX (I got a new, bigger CRT with my savings later that year for the gifted PSX)

[Popckorn !BuTtER.O4. No.10813835]

>>10812402
erotic

[Anonymous No.10813837]

please post photos of yourselves as small, cute boys thanks

[Anonymous No.10813871]

From getting my PS1 in 2000 up to getting a Xbox 360 in 2009, I had this old ~20 inch Teac which used to be the family TV. I don't know how old it was when Mum and Dad got it, but it was certainly older than me ('92).
It allegedly had a remote at some point, but I never saw it. It only had one AV input, which was mono, and you had to flip a toggle on the back to switch between TV and AV. The speaker would occasionally shut off, and you could turn it back on by either power cycling the TV or giving the chassis a smack.
I was a dumb bastard growing up, so it never occurred to me to switch the audio on games to mono. I played a ton of Tony Hawk's Underground 2 on this TV, and I'm still not used to hearing "Break On Through" by The Doors in stereo.
When I got my Xbox 360 with COD 4, I had to adjust the vertical hold all the way to get it to display properly. Trying to play Dead Rising on that thing was a wake up call that I needed a new TV.
I really wish I could find out what that TV was, just so I could see the remote it was supposed to come with.

[Anonymous No.10813881]

picrel on a wooden entertainment center. rf input. mainly nes/snes but i ended up getting a model 2 genesis later.

[Anonymous No.10813884]

we had a TV in our kitchen that had a Sega hooked up to it. it wasnt until the late 90s we got to have the video games in me and my brother's room

[Anonymous No.10813917]

Mine was like this>>10812482 my rich friend had this

I was so jelly I spent 20 years working on a career, saving for a house etc to get the modern version of this and yet it doesnt impress me as much as this did.

[Anonymous No.10813921]

>>10813884
>turning the system sideways to avoid cables in front of screen
Pretty brilliant

[Anonymous No.10813935]

>>10812194
It was a black, steel two-shelf thing. On the lower shelf was my PS2, on the top was a big, old CRT. My mom later threw the CRT away and bought a similar sized LCD TV. She said it was because the CRT was "too old and redundant". I wish I had kept it.

[Anonymous No.10814070]

Mega Drive (and later PS1) plugged into a VCR, connected through RF to absolutely ancient soviet TV in a wooden frame (that thing lived and worked fine until like 2006 when my parents just threw it away).
I also sometimes routed the audio into a boombox for better sound and to record game music to tapes.

[Anonymous No.10814469]

>>10813917
my mom never let me enter that, then years later I read that it was a scam anyways like most sweepstakes

[Anonymous No.10814503]

>>10813831
>tripfag
Filtered

[Anonymous No.10814508]

step aside, poors

[Anonymous No.10814518]

small ctr on the rug. no chair. just lay on front of it. parents didnt let me use adult tv :(

[Anonymous No.10814842]

>>10812286
>>10812482
Where can I get something like this to put my 28" B&O into?

[Anonymous No.10814864]

>>10814842
i see crap like this at thrift stores fairly often. not super common, but not uncommon either. habitat for humanity has large ones nationwide that are known for carrying more furniture, appliances etc. but ive seen them at goodwill too.

[Anonymous No.10814868]

>>10812194
Rf switches! God i would get so frustrated trying to swap a vcr or nes out or the cable box back in. As a kid you dont know you could chain it all together with coax cable, and when you did it didnt always look great.

[Anonymous No.10814876]

>>10814508
my grandparents had one a lot like this in the late 90s. i wonder how much that cost back then.

[Anonymous No.10814890]

>>10814868
Oh, we had a family tv until like late snes and then i got that tv in our bedroom. So some big boxy tv unit on shelf dade built. Getting behind it was a bitch.

[Anonymous No.10816263]

>>10814469
There is a youtube video about this contest and how it was a scam.

[Anonymous No.10816943]

>>10812482
cozy, i really like the cd case holder on the right of the set. would be perfect to fill up with ps1 games

[Anonymous No.10817152]

>>10812194
my siblings and i had our own tv area for games and shit. lots of games and controllers strewn about usually. everything was on a shelf and we would write cheat codes on the shelves for n64 games.

[Anonymous No.10817486]

my tv had UHF knobs on it.

[Anonymous No.10818037]

>>10814508
I got this in the 65in variant as a make a wish foundation gift.

It was laggy, SD AND HD content looked like shit on it and it was like a thousand pounds BUT my friends and I enjoyed it so much. So many memories playing on this in the early to late 00s.

[Anonymous No.10818162]

>>10817152
accursed image

[Anonymous No.10818201]

>>10812194
>14" Sharp CRT with a Genesis hooked in via RF and a gamecube via composite

>Got the family Samsung which was from grandparents, maybe a 24" or so. Same otherwise.

>moved games downstairs to large 56" projection we got for free from neighbors, had a GameStop AV switcher and had gamecube, N64, Wii, PS1, NES by that point thru it/other inputs on the TV, Genesis still over RF. Fell apart when the projection TV failed, brother and I split up the stuff and bought a lot of duplicates and moved the various stuff into our rooms. I got the Samsung TV, he got the Sharp.