doner24 | 1,195 Moderator · Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Me and my bro had a 13 inch black and white TV with a NES (Hand me down from Cousin) from 89-92 in our bedroom (try playing Where’s Waldo in B&W!). Christmas of 1992 my parents scraped together enough money (or debt) to buy us a 13 inch color TV and a Genesis with 1 game, Sonic. Best Christmas ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeganJoanne | 365 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 (edited) 2008 pic, only one I could find with me actually playing something, Bill & Ted's Excellent Videogame Adventure for the NES (beat it then too - tough game). Maybe not a kid (can pretend), but for me this way back in the day! My best years of gaming. Edited November 21, 2019 by MeganJoanne 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jono1874 | 144 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 (edited) Ias born in 90' and there was already an NES in the house. I know this because there are christmas pictures from 1988 when my parents got it. I think everyone got one at that point actually. Most of my aunts and uncles had one despite having no children. One of my first memories is watching my dad play Rad Racer on our living room TV. He beat the game and the ending scene intrigued me. When I started playing, our NES was se tup on a table in the kitchen separate from where we ate. This was the case for years. Later on, my dad built us a clubhouse, and the NES was moved out there. Until 2002, I never got my hands on anything more powerful than a Super Nintendo, which I didnt have a lot of games for so I primarily played NES in there until the 3 or so consoles we ended up with all died. After that we got an N64. When I was 14, we moved and I finally played got to play a video game in my own bedroom. Edited November 1, 2019 by Jono1874 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,401 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 (edited) I wasn't allowed to have a TV in my bedroom when I was real young you lucky kids (my cool friends all did of course). We had a TV in the living room and I had to ask to use it! Now kids grow up with multiple screens growing out of their arms. This is pic of the first TV I was allowed to have in my room, from the mid 2000s Edited November 1, 2019 by DefaultGen 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeganJoanne | 365 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 (edited) Yeah, that's how it was when you had to use the living room tv. You had to ask to use it and after a time are told that it was time to turn it off because someone wanted to actually watch tv and was getting sick of hearing game noises. Back when my brother and I had an Atari 2600 we started with a small black & white tv in the living room, next to the regular tv, many times had to play it on mute or very low, but later got a room and an upgrade, a color tv, still had dials and rabbit ears though, but we thought it was great! Berserk, Yar's Revenge, Joust, Dig Dug, Adventure, all in full color! I remember to connect the 2600 we had to screw these two prong things in to the back of the tv using a screwdriver. Hey, you won't get that watching reruns of Gilligan's Island... Old pic, mid-late-ish 80s, just hooked up brand new tv, yep, it's working! Would have been nice to get a game play pic though instead of an old tv show. Edited November 21, 2019 by MeganJoanne 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.A. | 1,139 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 My first was the basement, picture of me playing Cobra Triangle with my cousins. Can see some games and Nintendo Power issues peaking out of the drawer. Shortly after that I moved that TV to the closet of my bedroom and made that my gameroom. That was actually my favorite setup. NES in the closet is where it's at! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonebone | 1,307 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 In the bedroom, NES and Genesis days. Then in Xmas of 1996 I got N64 with Mario and was allowed to hook that up in the living room! Not sure how long that lasted, maybe 2 weeks until back to school, then it moved back into the bedroom with me too. While I had the TV in the bedroom it was never allowed to have cable TV. It was just for playing video games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Climber | 150 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 The late 70's and early 80's it was the living room (Atari 2600) my parents didn't care for the NES at all so I got to have it in my room Black and white TV though haha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeganJoanne | 365 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 It was a pain playing some games in b&w, if it was necessary to know what colors things were, but then, you got used to the levels of greyscale, it was like everything was a Gameboy but on tv. What color were those keys in Adventure? I dunno, white, grey, black. Same thing for the dragons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strikezone1 | 154 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 All of the above. All the consoles my brothers and I had back in the day moved all over the house throughout the years. The NES was the first console we had in our household and it started in the family room IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nesdino82 | 0 Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Basement...standard issue Sylvania tv in a cabinet, with the case to the right full of DIsney Movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriHart | 88 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 My gaming space in my youth was right smack dab in the middle of the house in the living room. I was always envious of those finished basement areas my friends' gaming spaces were in. Haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICrappedMyPants | 302 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Other: Playroom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lago | 217 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 I want to say I had a dedicated room for games in my youth, but that wasn't the case. It was always in a bedroom. Mine or somebody else's. I remember when we moved to a house I got a custom entertainment center for my birthday. Man I was living large then. I played mostly NES and SNES. I know for a fact I had a Sega Master System but i can't remember what happened to it for the life of me. I'm going to look and see if I can find an old picture of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MachineCode | 159 Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Pre SNES, bedroom. Then, basement dwelling nerd for the rest of the 90s. Then split between bedroom and basement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,932 Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Started out in 1985 to eighty something(88 maybe) in the family room, but as they got fed up with the TV in perpetual use I ended up with a cheap color tv in my room the NES ended up on and it stayed that way up until I lived on my own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Ours was in a small room off of the family room that would take you to the basement steps. Kinda narrow and long, but the spare TV was back there and the 7800 (then my NES and SNES) also got hooked to it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 (edited) My dad still has the old TV that we used to play NES games on when I was a kid over 30 years ago. The picture is about done, but he never got rid of it. Edited November 27, 2019 by Bearcat-Doug 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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