Most Depressing Video Game Rig Ever!

By BeckyBeeks. Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:29:53 AM

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There's something about this image that just makes me feel really BLEH! Perhaps it's the basement locker room setting, it could be the awful grainy colors of the 80s, or maybe it's just because that poor kid is sitting inches away from that P.O.S. television.



It reminds me of my early gaming days when I was 6 years old sitting in MY grungy concrete basement playing our NES, except our entertainment center was a dingy storage trunk my mom kept her old clothes in!
Think back to the glory days of your gaming rigs--did you have a sweet setup from the get-go, or did you start out playing your NES on your grandma's old TV?


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Comments

Matthew!tanooki Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:32:32 AM

I had some sweet Nintendo cabinet with a bunch of stickers. I'll try to find it- it's in one of those awesomely retro Nintendo catalogs.

I want that chair.

MK-MK Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:34:34 AM

I used to play my Dreamcast off of a 10 inch TV that used DIALS to change the channels.

And one of the dials fell off, so I could only watch channels 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 26. Of those channels, only three of them were actual stations.

Sam SabbaghSäm Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:12:20 AM

I played with my brother in a living room, on a pretty retro TV set.

-Lithium- Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:06:25 AM

haha reminds me of my years as a gamer XD

hierSmitty Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:39:18 AM

That poor kid! Surely he's blind by now, sitting that close. I want to see what the sticker on his NES is. Mario maybe...
I used to play in the living room. The entertainment set/boxofwood was gigantor and every once in a while somebody would get too excited and yank the NES off of the set via remote pullage. Great times, no doubt.

GoneSolidD Thursday, May 10, 2007 12:55:15 PM

i used N64 to play in crappy tv and the the thing where you plug in the av jacks where all messed up so every once in a while the screen just went black. that sucked.
still, it didnt suck as much as this kids rig. (no hard feelings kid... if here where here reading this even though i doubt it.)

Geoff GirardinG-off Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:15:37 PM

My grandparent's used to have an NES with Duck Hunt hooked up in their unfinished basement on a TV that I believe only worked half the time. That was awesome. I only used it maybe twice though.

N. R. S.melllic Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:55:22 PM

Heehe, we would play on the floor for the most part...
I don't think my setup was ever this bad.
Eye cancer... LOL

AntonCaptainSeagull Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:31:40 PM

My first set-up was a snes on a pretty big (for it's time) tv. The tv though used a cable box and produced immense amounts of static. One time just after touching the tv screen I got such a shock, the tv turned off! otherwise, full color, buttons, no antanae or anything that weird.

-Lithium- Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:05:26 PM

Well, that isnt as bad as one of my friends (current) setup.

It not that his tv is bad by any means he has a NICE 60 inch HDTV but HE SITS LIKE A METRE AWAY FROM IT!

MelvinMelvin-Garcia Friday, May 11, 2007 4:59:55 AM

My TV was so messed up that one day the power button broke, so I couldn't turn it on or off normally. To turn it off I had to unplug it, but to turn it on I had to open the TV and with the screw driver touch the contacts the power button activated, it was so tedious to do. I also I recieved a few shocks every time I made a mistake and that was awful.

BeckyBeeks Friday, May 11, 2007 2:15:12 PM

I REALLY hope you have a new TV by now! o_0

Dustin WilsonKhadgar Friday, May 11, 2007 2:34:58 PM

I was telling MK- in #N+ about my old setup. It was pretty bad... not as bad as Melvin's! I had an old 70's TV that used a knob to change channels and without a remote control or ir receiver on it. It only had support for 16 channels, and had no coaxial cable input anywhere. Instead it had screw posts on the top of it to hook into the antenna. I used a modulator from Radio Shack that had two prongs on the end (positive and negative) and a coaxial input on the other end. I'd plug the Atari 2600 up to it and play. If the picture developed too much static I would have a wrench nearby to adjust the screw posts. I had that all the way up until shortly after I got my SNES. I'd complain so much that I couldn't see Mario very well that my parents bought me a small modern TV (for the time) with composite inputs (\o/).

Those were the days. I have a much better setup these days. Pretty nostalgic to think back to those good ol' days.

BeckyBeeks Friday, May 11, 2007 3:34:03 PM

That sounds like too much work though! I bet you had your wrench on standby to throw at the TV too, when you were really angry.

We had a poopy setup in our car too! I remember one roadtrip to North Carolina where we hooked up a 3-4" black and white TV to the cigarette lighter and then hooked the Super Nintendo up to that! You REALLY couldn't see Mario on the screen, especially if the sun was glaring in. It sure SEEMED like a good idea though!

AntonCaptainSeagull Friday, May 11, 2007 6:19:05 PM

Beeks, sounds like you were just too ahead of your time.

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