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I remember. My family was always poor but my parents understood the value of technology. all of us had pcs, and we had a nintendo in the living room.
Granted, we were poor, so the tech we hooked up to the tv was a bit behind. I was hype as fuck to finally have a copy of The Guardian Legend for NES while my best friend was playing mario sunshine.
I think I had the better childhood.
I don’t feel nostalgic for the dark times when our televisions weighed 80 lbs just to beam us an inferior image. Sure, maybe for when being a teenager at the mall meant meeting girls and having a good time with friends walking around, buying nothing because we were all broke. But only the social aspects were better. I’ll take today’s entertainment any day of the week.
The quality of the media was not as good perhaps but I do miss when the world moved just a little bit slower.
No 24h news cycle, no social media, no being pressured to be connected and available to work at all times.
Superior image*
*for the time when flat screens initially came out
whats an rgb mod?
I had that TV back in the day. It was an amazing TV for it’s time.
That a RetroPie setup at the bottom?
No, that’s a Playstation 2 /s
Those trinitrons were the goat of the day.
Sweet man, that setup right there is next level!
What’s the CRT on the bottom left?
Have you softmodded the PS1 to accept backups? There’s a disc you can burn that if you do the swap trick with it it will configure a memory card to be used to load backups
No Saturn?
I’ll call it “Starry Night over the Rhone” because it’s an extent masterpiece of a bygone golden era.
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.
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.
My grandparents had one very much like this. It was so much fancier than ours. It even had a remote!
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.
Peak would’ve been a grey Zapper.
Looks like model used in cs_militia in Counter Strike Source
great picture. I’ll bet that TV didn’t even have one of the old style remotes to change channels
Oh my god !!! That’s the TV we had when I was a kid !!!
That’s eerily similar to what I grew up with. Like: “are you my sibling, and is that actually my old house”-level similar.
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.
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.
We had a Zenith version of this idea, but it still had the clunky dials for changing channels instead of those fancy buttons.
The turntable isn’t even on the top of the hifi separates unit. Pathetic!
What do you use for you irregular Nintendo?
I’ll see myself out 🤣
It still is next level.
I have a stereo system still, complete with tape deck and turntable.
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
Yeah, I’m a little jealous of that cool ass setup. I used to have something like it, though not as nice.
I definitely would if I had the space and time to build it. Too many projects too little time (and space)
Not that compact stereo system. My old sharp boom box sounded better than those.
I have that exact Aiwa music player.
Last Sunday when I went back to my parents house, I noticed that the clock was blinking because there was a blackout, so I turned on and I saw that the 5 CD changer not only gets stuck but the laser doesn’t see the discs anymore 😢
I’m sad
I don’t want to brag but I have my 1985 Bang & Olufsen music system still in use. Cassette player, CD-player and vinyl player all work well. They don’t make devices like that anymore.
I have two AF Toshibas. One 27 inches and the other 14. I would have more if I had a house. They are still awesome!
Twenty-seven years ago that 27 inch TV was huge!
Now most people need massive TVs, but still spend most of the time looking at the small screen on the phone.
Not me, I will refuse to watch any movie I’ve never seen on a tiny fucking phone screen. I at least have some standards
Then they put that massive TV so close to where they sit that it’s just painful to actually watch anything on because there is just no way you can get the entire image in your field of vision comfortably.
Because unless you’re buying a quality panel the difference between a 45 inch and 65 is usually $150. For something that you need 3 or 4 of (tops, if you have a family or large house) that’ll last 5+ years, the value proposition is high enough to spend the extra money.
Those TVs were in a lot of middle class homes. I think huge is pretty exaggerated. Having a house on the block with those 4 person 40-50 in TV’s was pretty common in a lot of areas IMO.
They weren’t huge at all. They were huge for that day.
Sure there was 40+ inch tvs if you were willing to shell out 10k plus.
I would never in a million years would consider this as “next level” unless there’s a MegaDrive behind those doors under the TV.
I have a N64 plugged into the back side of my TV. It has a flush mount, as in I plugged the N64 in before I hung it on the wall.
To play games from that era this is a next level setup.
Fuck. I remember when that setup was science fiction.
Yes, I played Nintendo games in emulator on mine, it was so great.
What fascinates me is going back and watching TV shows designed for these size / type of capability TV’s, and how much less there is going on, in any frame. The characters are central, there’s no background action or skits, no huge flashing lights or whole moving cities, and it reminds me of the problems behind coco melon. I wonder if it does the same thing to adult brains it does to baby brains.
Today’s next level iPhone , zyns/vape, gem butt plug.
We must go back
That is one strong unit, the thought of the weight of those devices gives me back pain.
Kind of still is.
When the TV perfectly fit the cabinet. That’s when you knew.
Thrift stores couldn’t sell those cabinets 10 years ago and now they won’t take them at all.
Was it common for people to have a turntable in their setup at this time?
The TV and stereo aren’t amazing for that time. I had better in my teens and twenties just from my restaurant jobs.
I’m just here to point out that I look down upon everybody, as I have some arbitrary consideration in my mind that makes me and the things I think, more next-levelier than all of you and what you like
Today it’s all about finding a dumb display.
I mean, it’s still pretty dope.
Up to this day this is still next level. Seriously flat screen was an improvement but it ended up with people growing up TV size to a scale that is certainly not an improvement. Image quality has gotten better but what is the point of me seeing more detail in TV than in real life?
That sound system stack needs at least 6 more components.
Was? It gets better ping than my current setup
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