Peak would’ve been a grey Zapper.
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WanderWisley@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m old enough to remember when this was peak entertainment technology.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s eerily similar to what I grew up with. Like: “are you my sibling, and is that actually my old house”-level similar.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Wow, old memory unlocked, we had that exact tv (or maybe another model that looked very similar). It was the good TV for a long time but never made it to be the less good TV in the basement because, well look at it, it’s a tube TV built into a fucking cabinet, just throw it out.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I remember my parents had a Magnavox wood finish tv console. That fucker weight more then a collapsed star I swear it took 3 people to move it from one corner to another.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Oh my god !!! That’s the TV we had when I was a kid !!!
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My grandparents had one very much like this. It was so much fancier than ours. It even had a remote!
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Oh man, this reminds me of the Sony Trinitron my family had growing up. We inherited it from my grandparents on my dad’s side when I was very young.
My grandpa died before I was old enough to remember him being alive, and my grandma we lost to dementia/Alzheimer’s not long after… So we got their TV.
Worked great for so many years, but somewhere around the 25-30 year mark, the picture had all but lost most of the color and I’m pretty sure that we had a failure in one of the emitters so one of the colors would only sometimes be there. We didn’t keep it around after that started happening regularly.
It was like this, a huge cabinet on wheels, and it was flanked by two massive speakers the full height of the unit, and about 10" off each side of the screen.
That TV was home to our NES and SNES consoles for a long time, and eventually our Sega Genesis.
We had a lot of good times sitting on the floor playing games on that thing.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
great picture. I’ll bet that TV didn’t even have one of the old style remotes to change channels
zexyqag@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Looks like model used in cs_militia in Counter Strike Source
jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
We had a Zenith version of this idea, but it still had the clunky dials for changing channels instead of those fancy buttons.
baronofclubs@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
See, now that’s just the TV stand for the newer TV on top!
But seriously, why the fake drawers in these? The drawer handles even rotated, but you’d just be pulling against the wood.
Booboofinget@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I remember back in the 90s I found a cabinet just like that, but without the TV. Since I was broke back then, I took it back to my place and used it as a computer desk.