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.
and neutron star.
Akshually u mean quark gluon plasma
This guy is an amateur. Everyone knows it's easier to carry with the screen facing your torso. Sheesh
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 👍
Exactly what I thought when I saw the pic. Dude's definitely gonna drop it before he gets 20 steps.
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
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!
That's why you needed the rolling TV cart. The one that had a bunch of VHS tapes and SNES games piled up all out of order in the bottom
Stairs: exists
DAS ROLLING CART DOES NUTZING!
Source: 2000 me, buying my first TV, 27" flat CRT. Upstairs bedroom. Distorted picture. Exchanged, even worse. Returned, bought different model. Total garbage. Returned, back to the first model from a different store... damn near perfect. Still have it.
Lets get a heavy piece of expensive electronics, put it at the top of 5ft tall rickety and narrow cart, and then stick it in a room full of children.
It's amazing more kids weren't crushed by those things.
That was the one at school, the one I meant looked kind of like this:
I think I got it in like 1997 when I was still in highschool and had it until well after I had graduated from college lol
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!!
Trinitron TV's man .... Awesome TV but the price is your back!
Bro, kids will never know the struggle we had setting up halo LAN parties. those tvs are monsterous.
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
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!
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.
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).
I remember a calibrated monitor needing two men for moving.
It was because of the shielding on the entire back.
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.
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.
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.
This is what Melee players look like on their way to the local tournament. Gotta get that venue discount for bringing your own setup.
Please, this was part of my daily job during apprenticeship.
If you wanted a new TV in the 80's you had to move to a new house.
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.
