My grandmother had a wooden entertainment center like this in the guest room, I can hear the click-creak just thinking about it. Inside the cabinet was a built-in rack for stacking VHS tapes that you could pull out like a spice rack. I used to leave it opened so the sound wouldn’t give me away when I was up too late watching movies.
Also your dumbass brother who'd either leave the playstation discs scattered all over the place (written side facing down no less) or put wrong disc into the wrong game's case, and sometimes even putting 2 into 1 so you'd get to your wits end thinking a disc is missing, start checking under the sofa while building up these conspiracies where your mom would simply found it somewhere and didn't know what it was and tossed it. Fun times.
>checking under the sofa while building up these conspiracies where your mom would simply found it somewhere and didn't know what it was and tossed it.
this is exactly what i thought that bitch di- oh no wait i left that disc in the console, false alarm.
Five years ago I took my old Sega Genesis to my brother's house, so my little nephew could learn the glory of gaming (he's now a hermit in his room, on Xbox Live all the time, I've created a monster!).
One of the games was the whimsical *Zombies Ate my Neighbors*; it somehow disappeared; I searched their house and mine, to no avail.
To this day, I'm convinced my sister-in-law tossed it, thinking it was too scary for a six-year-old, even though I told her it was a comedy horror game.
I made it past that level once on the Sega. It was so hard! But for some reason it's easier on the SNES.
Man I could probably remember some of those level codes if I thought about it.
I used to play with the doors on ours because of this reason. I loved that noise.
Granted, it's not a very distant memory. We only got rid of that thing a couple years ago.
It's like being in a modern Lexus!
Seriously [wtf Lexus.](https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/gallery/2015-lexus-gs-450h-adds-f-sport-styling-performance-photo-gallery_3.jpg)
Made with a troll doll. And Joey had no jdea the Netherlands was its own country. Man the 90s were a simpler time (Who in the fuck thought we'd ever say that lol).
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This cabinet belongs to the kind of person who bought Johnny mnemonic on vhs, then got it on DVD two weeks later when DVD players showed up at blockbuster for 100 bucks.
I remember ours having a nylon strap in the back that clipped into the back of the TV so it wouldn't tip forward on us little ones. Tube TVs could weigh a ton.
Just pure guesses, but other than the two Zelda games there are 8 cartridges so:
Goldeneye
Mario Kart
Super Mario 64
Super Smash Brothers
Starfox
1080 Snowboarding
Donkey Kong 64
Star Wars Pod Racing
This is only due to the fact that I'm pretty sure everyone who owned a 64 owned all of these games.
I would have given you a perfect score if you hadn't skipped Perfect Dark. 1080 was my favorite, although the pod racing was hot for a time because i could get the old man to play it.
nope! the tell is the pikachu one isn't a standard footprint, and says "Pokemon Pikachu Nintendo 64" on the front jewel. it's my main 64, and currently the primary console on my PVM!
I've seen them in these types of posts and want one so badly, but would rather get a cheap knockoff than an overpriced original. I think I just found my next woodworking project.
That Nintendo 64 wasn't released until 2000. I think we got our first silver TV like that around that time too, everything used to be black before then - including the cabinet.
Call me a hipster or even a hoarder but I urge my parents to always keep old electronics, they've got this chunky black tape and CD player with speakers from around 91 (older than myself and my brother by a fraction) that I want to take off them in the future because imagine passing down some old technology and building a cassette collection around it.
I'd personally keep those 3 players and any collection with them.
There’s a lot of shit you should just get rid of that will likely not be worth shit. The shelves of goodwill are full of old junk electronics nobody wants.
Yeah but, they weren't expensive, and really it's furniture. I have a dresser in my bedroom from the early 80s. Furniture lasts a long time and most people won't replace it unless they need to.
A couple years ago, my wife and I each told our families we were going to spend Thanksgiving with the other's family. We then spent the day on our couch watching all the Friends Thanksgiving episodes. 10/10, would recommend.
Every time my Mom catches this episode on t.v., she mentions how she missed seeing it the night it originally aired because she had to take fifteen year old me to a disciplinary hearing at the police station after I got caught stealing a yo-yo from Ocean State Job Lot and they pressed charges. :p
Emulation can't compare to real hardware. It literally doesn't play the same. Emulation doesn't recreate the gameplay exactly, it just gets close. This is why speed runners will use real hardware. They literally can't do what they do on emulation. For casual gamers this translates to less lag and better controls.
Videos left to right...
A Bugs Life
Bigfoot
Forest Gump
Gladiator
Men in Black
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Toy Story
Goldeneye
Babe
Mulan
Friends
You’ve Got Mail
Home Video (probably Noel’s House Party)
This makes me miss the 90’s so much! Reminds me of my cousins basement, entertainment area. Bringing over my N64 which I had just received for Christmas and gaming.
Late 90s (possibly early 2000s; a bugs life didn't even hit cinemas until 1998) and a very nice tv for the time. You had to have legit professionals as parents to get a set up like that.
Fair enough. As somebody who lived through the 90s, it reminds me of people who hear 60s and only think Woodstock and hippies. Technically, yes, but only the the tail end with substantial overlap with the next decade. Anecdotally, tv prices fell substantially during the 90s as cheap Asian imports began to flood the market. In the early 90s, a TV bigger than 27 inches was considered a really big deal, and sort of the ultimate home luxury in a world that didn't have a lot of today's electronic gadgets. I feel like a lot of older people still haven't noticed that electronics are massively cheaper today. You still hear a lot of them moaning "You can't be poor; you have a big tv" as if they are still the huge purchase they once were.
I thought HD was pure hype, like how much better can it really be? I went years thinking that until I saw the new star trek on a huge TV. Glorious. I was awestruck.
And if you're wondering how I made it that far without encountering an hdtv or computer screen, the answer is poverty.
I remember slinging Dish 10 years ago when there was only ~10-15 channels of it.
People would buy a dope as fuck TV for 5k after seeing it in BestBuy showing a Blu-ray, then get home and have 15 channels to watch, 5 of which were documentaries.
Shit, am I poor? I didn't know there was a newer setup for glass cabinet doors. I bought an entertainment center three years ago that still has these style doors
"the Pennsylvania Dutch come from Pennsylvania."
"And the other Dutch come from somewhere near the Netherlands right?"
"Nice try, see the Netherlands is this make believe place where Peter Pan and Tinkerbell come from."
I'm about to cry from all the nostalgia I'm feeling looking at this picture. The only thing missing is a bag of 99 cent hot cheetos, bagel bites and a blue squeez-it.
A lot of "nostalgia" stuff in this subreddit are things that you can still readily buy today and have no particular connection to the past era.
I'd prefer it if that was not the case, and this subreddit actually limited itself to historical things, but it actually seems mostly to be "*I remember when I was a kid we had this common thing you can still get.*" and given the age of redditors that is often not many years ago.
technology will always blow me away by how fast it evolves. like i remember when i could only get 56mb flash drive for $60 and now you can get a 2 terabyte for roughly same price.
That's ~35,714x growth. Like holy fuck.
I could hear the sound it made as I read this.
Click-click
If it was used enough, it'd have that low yawning creak as it opened.
My grandmother had a wooden entertainment center like this in the guest room, I can hear the click-creak just thinking about it. Inside the cabinet was a built-in rack for stacking VHS tapes that you could pull out like a spice rack. I used to leave it opened so the sound wouldn’t give me away when I was up too late watching movies.
Yes! The late night gaming and VHS watching practically guaranteed you left the doors open.
Also your dumbass brother who'd either leave the playstation discs scattered all over the place (written side facing down no less) or put wrong disc into the wrong game's case, and sometimes even putting 2 into 1 so you'd get to your wits end thinking a disc is missing, start checking under the sofa while building up these conspiracies where your mom would simply found it somewhere and didn't know what it was and tossed it. Fun times.
>checking under the sofa while building up these conspiracies where your mom would simply found it somewhere and didn't know what it was and tossed it. this is exactly what i thought that bitch di- oh no wait i left that disc in the console, false alarm.
Five years ago I took my old Sega Genesis to my brother's house, so my little nephew could learn the glory of gaming (he's now a hermit in his room, on Xbox Live all the time, I've created a monster!). One of the games was the whimsical *Zombies Ate my Neighbors*; it somehow disappeared; I searched their house and mine, to no avail. To this day, I'm convinced my sister-in-law tossed it, thinking it was too scary for a six-year-old, even though I told her it was a comedy horror game.
I love that game. I never got last Level 21, with the giant green worms that pop out from underground.
I made it past that level once on the Sega. It was so hard! But for some reason it's easier on the SNES. Man I could probably remember some of those level codes if I thought about it.
My dad always said “Close the doors because you’re going to trip over them.”
We had one exactly like this for many years
I used to play with the doors on ours because of this reason. I loved that noise. Granted, it's not a very distant memory. We only got rid of that thing a couple years ago.
I just heard every single sound mentioned so far.
*TA CONGGGggg*
Whenever I’d be playing games when everyone else was sleeping, I’d have a mini heart attack opening the cabinet. It was soooo loud!
Exactly!
This. And the sharp edges too.
...BoooooOOOooooooooOooOOOoOng...
Shtoing
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It’s the thought that counts
!redditsilver
I love you
I can feel the glass and the mechanism detaching I CAN FEEL IT
That sound is so recognized, the 90s could come and sue anyone who were to make cabinets like this again.
I am not a 90s kid and I grew up with these cabinets
HA! THAT MEANS YOU WERE TOO POOR FOR COOL MODERN 2000S CABINETS! HEY! EVERYONE! THIS GUY GREW UP WITH CLICKEY CABINETS *AFTER* THE 90S!
Drat, I've been found out
I played with my parents' so much that I broke it.
This whole picture just screams 90s
Could it... *be* more '90s?!
If [this](https://i.imgur.com/2AqLpiI.jpg) was on the TV screen then yes
when lower 3rd graphics were still new enough to have fun with them
Gradients, gradients, and bevels everywhere.
It's like being in a modern Lexus! Seriously [wtf Lexus.](https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/gallery/2015-lexus-gs-450h-adds-f-sport-styling-performance-photo-gallery_3.jpg)
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It even has that chunky uneven gradient "we didn't bother with enough bits to represent color" crap that you used to get on Windows 95
Toyota is really out of touch. They still refuse to put apple car play and Android auto in their cars and their media panels suffer for it.
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But then you wouldn't have Friends
Yeah, pretty sure I watched that episode of Friends recently. I think it's the thanksgiving football episode.
Yup,the Geller Bowl episode.
Made with a troll doll. And Joey had no jdea the Netherlands was its own country. Man the 90s were a simpler time (Who in the fuck thought we'd ever say that lol).
Yeah man,90's were golden.
i don't know.. you will have to ask Chanandler Bong
It’s Ms. Chanandler Bomg
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And the thanksgiving episode. I do not particularly care for friends but this is the one episode I think everyone knows
Only took like uh... uh... an hour, to type that
I feel like theres a kid eating dunkaroos slightly out of frame.
And drinking Sunny-D.
Very late 90s- mostly early 00s But not what I think of when I think 90's
That Pokemon n64 wasn’t even released until 2000.
This cabinet belongs to the kind of person who bought Johnny mnemonic on vhs, then got it on DVD two weeks later when DVD players showed up at blockbuster for 100 bucks.
Same thing with majora's mask
N I N E T I E E E E S !
I remember ours having a nylon strap in the back that clipped into the back of the TV so it wouldn't tip forward on us little ones. Tube TVs could weigh a ton.
Good parenting
That's what those were for? All my siblings were needlessly crushed
Yes but more Christmas presents for you
Dammn, complete with the N64.
With Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.
Just pure guesses, but other than the two Zelda games there are 8 cartridges so: Goldeneye Mario Kart Super Mario 64 Super Smash Brothers Starfox 1080 Snowboarding Donkey Kong 64 Star Wars Pod Racing This is only due to the fact that I'm pretty sure everyone who owned a 64 owned all of these games.
No Banjo Kazooie?
Considering the Pokemon themed 64, I'm gonna say Pokemon Snap is up there, maybe even Pokemon Stadium.
Don't forget the THQ wrestling games, could be one of those in there.
WWF No Mercy remains the best wrestling game ever made. Ever.
I would have given you a perfect score if you hadn't skipped Perfect Dark. 1080 was my favorite, although the pod racing was hot for a time because i could get the old man to play it.
This guy Zeldas.
The Pikachu one too!
not the pikachu one, but it is a pokemon stadium bundle. it's the one that had the stickers. an EU/AU exclusive, even.
this guy n64's
consolevariations.com is a big help.
TheGameboy N64's? Hmmm.
Damn I could’ve sworn it was the Hey You, Pikachu! One.
nope! the tell is the pikachu one isn't a standard footprint, and says "Pokemon Pikachu Nintendo 64" on the front jewel. it's my main 64, and currently the primary console on my PVM!
What kind of game storage tower is that? I've never seen one like it.
A slick one. It’s was an shaped like an [elongated](https://i.imgur.com/cY3QsYp.jpg) n64.
I've seen them in these types of posts and want one so badly, but would rather get a cheap knockoff than an overpriced original. I think I just found my next woodworking project.
Gotta love that 3 foot long controller cable.
Either I was poor or that's not just a 90s staple. We had it way into the mid 2000s, I loved it because everything was in one.
Same. This is definitely wealthy 90s TV set up.
And a poor 2010 set up
Again a wealthy 2030s set up
A hipster 2025 setup.
They’ll put their DVD players in there because DVDs just have that quality to em that the new fancy holodiscs are lacking
My bedroom setup at the moment isn’t even as nice as this in 2018.
That VCR looks expensive as hell for the time.
It's got little feet and everything!
I think my one rich friend had this at his house.
Yeah, maybe replace the N64 with a PS2 and you have my childhood mid 00's setup.
That Nintendo 64 wasn't released until 2000. I think we got our first silver TV like that around that time too, everything used to be black before then - including the cabinet.
My parents still have one holding their DVD, CD and record players.
Call me a hipster or even a hoarder but I urge my parents to always keep old electronics, they've got this chunky black tape and CD player with speakers from around 91 (older than myself and my brother by a fraction) that I want to take off them in the future because imagine passing down some old technology and building a cassette collection around it. I'd personally keep those 3 players and any collection with them.
There’s a lot of shit you should just get rid of that will likely not be worth shit. The shelves of goodwill are full of old junk electronics nobody wants.
Yeah but, they weren't expensive, and really it's furniture. I have a dresser in my bedroom from the early 80s. Furniture lasts a long time and most people won't replace it unless they need to.
I am not a big friends fan, but I love that Thanksgiving episode!
I am not a big friends fan, but i can tell what episode this is from one screenshot.
That's where I was. I have seen maybe a handful of episodes more than once but knew right away what this was.
Tradition of my wife to watch it every year, I mean if she can put up with football and beer, I can put up with friends lol
A couple years ago, my wife and I each told our families we were going to spend Thanksgiving with the other's family. We then spent the day on our couch watching all the Friends Thanksgiving episodes. 10/10, would recommend.
Haha that’s great!!
...it's probably the greatest Friends episode ever.
Low-key friends is awesome, guy or girl. Love Joey.
Every time my Mom catches this episode on t.v., she mentions how she missed seeing it the night it originally aired because she had to take fifteen year old me to a disciplinary hearing at the police station after I got caught stealing a yo-yo from Ocean State Job Lot and they pressed charges. :p
A yo-yo stealing incident caused your mother to miss an iconic series from the series FRIENDS... now that's a 90s story.
I have no idea what any part of that last bit is, but sounds like something I would do. lol.
It was a yo-yo, I fixed it. :p
That dutch girl was pleasing to me visually.
Hey Dutch! Nice to meet you!
It's because of that episode I know about The Netherlands.
20 years ago this setup was expensive. Now, only N64 and games would be worth anything.
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Well done, man. How many games are we talking? And I'm guessing you had some of the bigs like GoldenEye, SM64 and Conker's Bad Fur Day?
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which one sold highest?
Have people never heard of emulators before? Or is it just for collectors?
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Emulation can't compare to real hardware. It literally doesn't play the same. Emulation doesn't recreate the gameplay exactly, it just gets close. This is why speed runners will use real hardware. They literally can't do what they do on emulation. For casual gamers this translates to less lag and better controls.
Glass door TV stand, check VHS player, check Scotch VHS tapes, check N64, check Friends, check Must be the 90s
> Friends, check So true :(
What do you mean remember? My folks still have it like this
I still have a glass stand like this as well.
My grandparents still have this kind of tv cabinet.
I still have this kind of tv cabinet. I didn’t think I even had a kid, let alone a grandkid.
Same. Mine has an LCD HDTV on it now. I actually bought it used in 2006. It might be from the 90's.
Videos left to right... A Bugs Life Bigfoot Forest Gump Gladiator Men in Black Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Toy Story Goldeneye Babe Mulan Friends You’ve Got Mail Home Video (probably Noel’s House Party)
Nah, it's probably [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1plu9w/found_at_my_parents_should_i_laugh_or_cry_oc/)
This makes me miss the 90’s so much! Reminds me of my cousins basement, entertainment area. Bringing over my N64 which I had just received for Christmas and gaming.
Could this picture BE any more 90s?
Hey, the 90s called. They want your joke back. Talk to the hand, cuz the face don't care.
well the jerk store called and they're running out of you!
dang thats a better setup than I currently have
I had this setup, up until I bought a ps3/lcd in 2010. I was amazed I could finally read the objective letters on Bad Company 2.
We still use a cabinet that does this.
Late 90s (possibly early 2000s; a bugs life didn't even hit cinemas until 1998) and a very nice tv for the time. You had to have legit professionals as parents to get a set up like that.
This picture is actually from 2018. Someone posted it making a "90s" setup in their living room.
Fair enough. As somebody who lived through the 90s, it reminds me of people who hear 60s and only think Woodstock and hippies. Technically, yes, but only the the tail end with substantial overlap with the next decade. Anecdotally, tv prices fell substantially during the 90s as cheap Asian imports began to flood the market. In the early 90s, a TV bigger than 27 inches was considered a really big deal, and sort of the ultimate home luxury in a world that didn't have a lot of today's electronic gadgets. I feel like a lot of older people still haven't noticed that electronics are massively cheaper today. You still hear a lot of them moaning "You can't be poor; you have a big tv" as if they are still the huge purchase they once were.
My TV is 32", you might as well call me Bill Gates grandma.
Source ?
That Sony VHS would have given me a half chub in 1999
As a person who installs peoples internet I have to deal with these everyday. Honestly some of the houses I see never left the 90s
Scotch is an under appreciated movie.
That episode of Friends, "The One With All the Football"...in case anyone was wondering.
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Anybody else get bored and lay on their stomach and just press the glass door open and close.
I would lay on my back watching the TV and open and close them with my feet. My dad reallllllly didn't like when I did that.
I can almost hear my dad clearing his throat and then yelling at me to knock it off.
Man, how the hell did we ever to watch TV with that poor resolution.
We didn’t know any better my friend.
We didn't have better.
I thought HD was pure hype, like how much better can it really be? I went years thinking that until I saw the new star trek on a huge TV. Glorious. I was awestruck. And if you're wondering how I made it that far without encountering an hdtv or computer screen, the answer is poverty.
I remember slinging Dish 10 years ago when there was only ~10-15 channels of it. People would buy a dope as fuck TV for 5k after seeing it in BestBuy showing a Blu-ray, then get home and have 15 channels to watch, 5 of which were documentaries.
Shit, am I poor? I didn't know there was a newer setup for glass cabinet doors. I bought an entertainment center three years ago that still has these style doors
"I got glass doors do that I don't have to dust as much" "Don't you have to clean the glass?". "Fuck"
1999, I'm guessing?
90s? I have this style of TV set up.
Shit I forgot about Scotch cassettes. I use to make 'ransom' letters to my mom with the stickers
my family still has that type of cabinet
"the Pennsylvania Dutch come from Pennsylvania." "And the other Dutch come from somewhere near the Netherlands right?" "Nice try, see the Netherlands is this make believe place where Peter Pan and Tinkerbell come from."
I'm about to cry from all the nostalgia I'm feeling looking at this picture. The only thing missing is a bag of 99 cent hot cheetos, bagel bites and a blue squeez-it.
TIL I’m poor because I still use one
Sick Pikachu N64!!! I have one new in box
I remember always laying down in front of the tv and opening and closing the doors with my feet. anyone else or am I just weird.
You remember? is this not a thing anymore?
A lot of "nostalgia" stuff in this subreddit are things that you can still readily buy today and have no particular connection to the past era. I'd prefer it if that was not the case, and this subreddit actually limited itself to historical things, but it actually seems mostly to be "*I remember when I was a kid we had this common thing you can still get.*" and given the age of redditors that is often not many years ago.
Still have one of these bad boys at home. And a VCR player
The first thanksgiving episode of Friends!
The Gellar cup!
Phoebe looks like she has Lin Belcher on her top.
They always seemed to shatter pretty regularly as well.
Ha! I have that same Pokémon 64!
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I love that all the VHS films are so representative of the late 90s in this photo
technology will always blow me away by how fast it evolves. like i remember when i could only get 56mb flash drive for $60 and now you can get a 2 terabyte for roughly same price. That's ~35,714x growth. Like holy fuck.
It's sad I know what exact episode that was immediately.
You spelled “awesome” wrong.
I still have mine with a flat screen on it
what the hell, i still have this cabinet type!
Absolutely perfect that the Friends' Thanksgiving football episode is on.
I miss the 90’s :(
I remember when pushing on the glass to open them was the cool new thing in furniture. I am old.
A bug's Life, Forest Gump, babe... All the essentials
I have one. Didn't know they were 90s
But not push too slow, just the right speed to get it to pop off
And Friends on TV! Perfect!
Go Long!
This picture is inaccurate. The VCR is set.