What exactly IS that "original hardware feeling" to you?

[Ziggy]

My first SNES was experienced on the family's 25" console TV, not unlike this one...



It was RF only. I had no reference and didn't know any better, but I'm sure it looked like shit! It was always breaking down and going in for repairs. When I got my own SNES for my bedroom, I had a shitty little 13" GE TV that was also RF only. I played lots of SNES and N64 on that 13". Perhaps that's why today I find something cozy about playing on a 13" CRT.

[stickem]

^When those went out it became an entertainment center to sit the new TV on lol. At least people I new did.

[opa]

My grandmother had one of those. The newest system we ever hooked to it was the N64. Good times

[marurun]

My most bizarre classic console experience is, as a child, taking my 9” (-ish) green monitor for the Apple //c and hooking it up to the composite out of the NES, and then splitting the mono audio to my boom box. Great sound, tiny green picture.

[Ziggy]

^When those went out it became an entertainment center to sit the new TV on lol. At least people I new did.

Haha, oh yeah. I mentioned that TV was always needing repairs. When it was on the fritz, my parents would take a 13" from a bedroom and sit it on top until they had the chance (or most likely until they had the money) to get it repaired.

[bmoc]

Anybody else have to use a broken VCR as an RCA to RF adapter? That's how I was able to use my N64 on my 13" bedroom tv back in the day. RF adapters for the N64 were hard to find for a while at launch.

[Ziggy]

Anybody else have to use a broken VCR as an RCA to RF adapter? That's how I was able to use my N64 on my 13" bedroom tv back in the day. RF adapters for the N64 were hard to find for a while at launch.

Yes, I had a couple of hand me down VCRs that I used for composite inputs to output RF to my 13" TV.

One of those VCRs was this ancient silver top-loader GE with a wired remote control! It was a huge and weighed a ton. I wish I still had it.

[fuctfuct]

Most of my NES/SNES/GEN was played on a TV like this. RF only.



I remember maybe using a VCR on it, in the very beginning of PS1/N64

I kept an eye out for years at thrift stores (when they still sold used CRTs) but never found one :/

N64/PS1 was on a shitty Canadian Tire Sansui 20 inch CRT. Composite i think. MIGHT have been VCR to RF.

PS2/oXbox was on a 32inch curved RCA CRT my parents gave me. Think i had a 27in RCA as well. Composite

[isiolia]

My most bizarre classic console experience is, as a child, taking my 9” (-ish) green monitor for the Apple //c and hooking it up to the composite out of the NES, and then splitting the mono audio to my boom box. Great sound, tiny green picture.

My brothers and I used a color monitor from our IIe and a boombox for SNES for a while. I even took that monitor to college as a first dorm "TV", though it and/or the VCR had issues with holding the picture vertically eventually.

[fuctfuct]

So, I was playing Donkey Kong Country tonight... Nostalgia isn't always a good thing I guess. From the start something just felt "off." The music was really effecting me in a slightly negative way. Water level gave me a mild panic attack feeling (if you've never felt that feeling you are lucky lol). Pressed further and got to the minecart section and had to just stop. This was my absolute favorite game as a teen. I played it a LOT back then. Good times. The only other Nostalgia I have for it is watching my ex play through it in my late 20s. More good times. Really strange. Or maybe not? My life kind of sucks right now. Maybe this music is so good it's making me remember when life was great? I guess this game just really hit me hard tonight. Reminding me that life was great in my teens and my 16 year relationship with my ex ended horribly.

Unlike other SNES games from my past I don't replay it. Probably because I played it an insane amount back then. Maybe that's why? Games like FF, Mario World, Yoshi's Island.. ect, I play them all the time. So there is no precise time to remember vividly with them. I mean they all take me back. But this game has pin point accuracy to a couple of the very best times in my life .. lol I'm a little drunk.. FML