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If you wanted a new TV in the 80’s you had to move to a new house.
This is what Melee players look like on their way to the local tournament. Gotta get that venue discount for bringing your own setup.
I had a 30" one in my bedroom for years, long after I’d stopped using it, because I didn’t want to move it. Finally, about a year ago, I got it out onto the driveway for recycling to pick up. I figured if I waited too much longer, I’d be too old to lift it.
I still have my CRT for retro games and it’s in the basement. We are moving soon and my husband is so annoyed with me for still having this thing.
My friends and I used to do regular LAN parties. And this one game we got into… The original “Monster Hunter” for the PS2. We would all bring our PS2s to my place. And plugin to a network switch. And each of us had our own TV / Monitor.
And this one friend ALWAYS brought his large tube TV lol. We used to joke about how it’s a powderstone. Which is an item in the game that was heavy and when dropped would explode and send you flying.
Ahh… It was good times back then. Good memories.
Bro, kids will never know the struggle we had setting up halo LAN parties. those tvs are monsterous.
Try Quake LAN parties. You also gotta drag that tower around and belt it in. Oh no, it slipped on the expressway and knocked you out of 4th gear into neutral!
Xbox live is fun and all but doesn’t compare to running downstairs to point and laugh at your cousin face to face after you stuck him with a plasma grenade
Please, this was part of my daily job during apprenticeship.
Old CRTs are probably the best thing for Retro gaming since they offer no input lag. Also Light guns (Yes I know you can use Light guns on LCDs by hacking the game to introduce delay but that doesn’t work on all light guns).
Kid me (from the 90s) was so jealous of my grandma who had a TV in every room. Now I don’t even have a TV. I just watch stuff on the the laptop.
I used to live in a 3rd floor walk-up, and when my TV blew out, I had the money to buy a really big one. It didn’t occur to me that I would have to drag that boat anchor up 3 flights. It took a while, with rests on the landings, but I finally got it up there.
I remember a calibrated monitor needing two men for moving.
It was because of the shielding on the entire back.
It was a huge chunk of thick glass. The flatter they made them, the thicker the glass had to be to withstand the vacuum.
No, because the front was flat and rather large, the tube was appropriately long and heavy, Shielding was just thin sheets, nothing to write home about. The mounts holding the tube though were massive and distributed the weight both to the feet and the handles on the sides.
In the summer sometimes, we would camp in the garden, take the TV and the PlayStation to the tent, pull a long extension cords from the garage, play all night. Good times, good times.
good fucken times!!
This guy is an amateur. Everyone knows it’s easier to carry with the screen facing your torso. Sheesh
Exactly what I thought when I saw the pic. Dude’s definitely gonna drop it before he gets 20 steps.
That’s definitely the method. Screen presses against your belly and lift with your knees while a concerned person behind you keeps asking you if you’re sure you don’t need help with that 👍
I GOT IT!!!
Are you sure? It looks heavy?
If you want to help, get the cord…
Is it on the left or the right?
The right.
Your right or my right?
The side with all the wires!
Oh, that’s -my- right!
WE’RE FACING THE SAME DIRECTION!!!
Tape the cord to the top
You really need to manage the cord before this becomes a thing at all, smh that’s how TVs die
Ours was one of those really old ones built into a wooden box. I say wood, but I’m fairly sure it was actually a mix of wood, lead, and neutron star.
Yeah, that broken thing is still here.
We can not move out.
It’s now a ‘fixture’
Sell it for 20 bucks and make sure they bring friends to help them. Only one will show up and had no idea of what they were getting themselves into they’re super weak, but it’s better than just 2 of you.
Ehhh we use it to hold the actual working TV so it’s not the worst it’s there.
It’ll be a problem for future people!
and neutron star.
Akshually u mean quark gluon plasma
Me heaving my 17 inch CRT computer monitor into the car to go play games via
localLAN all night at my friends.Good ol local local area network
It’s ‘Local area LAN network’. Didn’t they teach you anything in school?
Gonna use my PIN number to get a bit of cash from the ATM machine.
Today TIL.
RIP in peace.
I prefer wide local area network.
Actually now I’m curious. Could you do a lan game over a cell connection? Do carriers isolate devices?
Shaking my smh head, laughing my lmao off
play games via local LAN all night at my friends
I dunno what it was like for everyone else but it always felt like 90% of my time during these was trying to sort out compatability issues and so we’d end up just pissing around. Still great fun that I look back fondly on though!
Two days of installing and bug fixing, half a day of gaming.
If you did it with the same friends more often, you got into the groove and everyone had the correct crossover cables, and the setup memorised.
But there Was always that one guy that never got it running.
Yeah, same when we were still using those old style cables, the one where you have the T plugs to put everyone on the line. Once we switched to the newer cables it went better.
For our LAN parties we would always help our fellow players carry their stuff and set everything up. Except for monitors. Everyone carries their own. You want to be fancy with 19 inches? Sure, but you carry that yourself!
