Was at an estate sale the other day...
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Wife was like "what is it"? I told her that her Gen X card has been suspended pending review. I briefly considered buying it and framing it, but was promptly told "abso-fucking-lutely not."
AllPeopleAreStupid@reddit
anyoutlookuser@reddit
I buy these every time I see one or its equivalent. I buy, fix and sell games and systems. It’s disappointing when I find a system and it’s missing key pieces like this.
jahshwa314@reddit
I can share your sentiment about it
ConversationLate9565@reddit
Glad I still have my Atari 2600 and my Odyssey with extras like this. Still have a couple working tube TV's too 🙅
maroongrad@reddit
We have two... to connect our Atari and the knockoff Atari 😃
tommm3864@reddit
For my Odyssey system
tuesdaytraveler@reddit
Atari!
Ok-Reference-2275@reddit
No coleco vision.
tuesdaytraveler@reddit
Ah. Same respect.
SweetCarolineNYC@reddit
I had one of those in the 80's!
ComfortableFun3096@reddit
I still have on used it on my super nes
LaughingmanCVN69@reddit
Get the tv to go with it
actuallyno60@reddit
Need 3 people to help carry it.
Ok-Reference-2275@reddit
Gold
backgroundnerd@reddit
You need a better wife! :(
ScubaTrek@reddit
Used one for my commodore vic-20.
LetsHikeToTheMoon@reddit
Used it for my Atari.
Burqueisbest@reddit
And my TI 99/4.
MediumAd3331@reddit
If your old enough to be at an estate sale you know what that is
FLHomegrown@reddit
I think I might still have one of those laying around in a box somewhere in the attic
Ornery-Egg9770@reddit
I have mine. In the ColecoVision box. With the ColecoVision. Protected inside the molded styrofoam packing they came in.
FLHomegrown@reddit
That's so cool, I miss all of my game consoles my parents bought me over the years as a kid. Dad said that they were all lost when their house caught fire.
HiredGoon_40@reddit
How much was this going for?
Passat2000@reddit
I had a game called looping with this platform. So cool
SunnnySideUps@reddit
Channel two or channel three?
Realistic-Bad1174@reddit
This
....is a question as important as "why are we here?"
Nngor@reddit
Living in Ohio, i bet I could find one.
I say a floppie drive in Goodwill the other day.
DerangedRhinoceras@reddit
Live in Ohio..There’s one similar to this one mounted on my wall. I’m leaving it there. 🤣🤣
Nngor@reddit
Of course it's now antique art
DerangedRhinoceras@reddit
Absolutely. With the paneling and the wooden bar the whole basement is retro 🤣🤣
Key_Ad191@reddit
Combat
WhereItsAt75@reddit
I hated that game, my brother always beat me.
Educational_Tap_4704@reddit
I have several somewhere in the garage
RustySilver42@reddit
I think I still have one.
Rough_Condition75@reddit
I used one of these to play with my Tandy computer. Saved programs to a cassette tape!
No-Estate-404@reddit
They must have taken good care of their stuff - the two prongs are still attached. ours, eventually we had to strip the two wires and wrap them around the screws.
Fantastic-Cabinet860@reddit
Saaame!! lol 😂
ckrollage@reddit
Nice, now try to get channel 3 or 4 on these digital only flat screens
ralph442000@reddit
No kidding, trying to hook up my wife’s Sega Genesis to a new tv was ridiculous! Connecting it was easy but getting to a simple channel like 3 was incredibly convoluted. I guess this is what my grandparents felt like back in the day when their VCR was always blinking 12:00. For the younger redditors, movies were once stored on magnetic tape in a cassette form and a VCR was needed to watch them.
RileysBS@reddit
VCR = Video Cassette Recorder
Fantastic-Cabinet860@reddit
🤣🤣
Tiki-girl2023@reddit
What’s a channel?
Cryo_Dave@reddit
I've got my Intellivision hooked up to an 86" Samsung, so it can be done without much trouble if you actually want to. You just need to get the proper adapters for a few bucks on Amazon, turn it on and rescan.
Salty-Gas-1172@reddit
A bit of nostalgia
Scott72901@reddit
If you put both of those C-shaped things on just one of the antenna bolts on the back of the TV, you could get free HBO. Everything else would be scrambled, but HBO came in clear.
Boatride65@reddit
We all had those. Nothing special.
Different_Ask_3413@reddit
Mine (which I still have) is for my 1979 Atari 2600 that works and it gets busted out and played occasionally!
Fantastic-Cabinet860@reddit
Let the good times roll! Lol Ohh I remember these dearly!
rhodeislandah@reddit
Ah, takes me back to my days playing the Smirfs game on my Coleco Vision. Those were good days.
ChubOwner@reddit
But it's Coleco, it's branded, it's the birth of the gaming industry.
How much? No.
Daemon213@reddit
I have one in a box or a drawer somewhere I'm sure.
PaulSNJ@reddit
Ah yes, the good old RF modulator!
bigChrysler@reddit
An RF modulator would be an active (powered) component. These are passive... just converts the impedance from 75 ohms used by the game console to 300 ohms used by the antenna input.
M369Mc@reddit
I use one to this day when I feel like firing up the old Atari 2600. Surprised it still works after all these years.
DaddyOhMy@reddit
I always wondered how it affected places that actually had a station using channel 3.
Mr_Pogi_In_Space@reddit
There's usually a toggle which lets you choose between channel 3 and 4, or sometimes between channel 2 and 3
DaddyOhMy@reddit
Oh yeah, forgot about that. I always lived in places without a station on channel 3.
classicsat@reddit
Yep, that. I lived where there was a channel 4 that was reasonably easy to get, and a channel 2 a bit harder.
shworth@reddit
One of my local stations is Channel 3. The adapters had a switch to choose which one to use, usually 3/4. Our Atari had to be switched to 4.
BannedHerring@reddit
Core memory right there!
Legitimate-Fix-3987@reddit
The Antena switch for a Coleco Gemini?
classicsat@reddit
Or full Coleco Vision. Possibly an Adam.
Sel2g5@reddit
Awesome, the Atari one was pretty much equal no?
classicsat@reddit
Just about all early consoles and home computers came with the same switch, either their branding or not.
The NES came with its own electronic coax switch, Genesis with an integrate modulator/switch. I have no idea what a Sega Master originally came with.
Yada-Yada-Yadda@reddit
Hysterical! Brings back a lot of memories!
ONROSREPUS@reddit
I know what this is only because my friends had them. Never had one at our household.
777wild777@reddit
That is how I hooked up my Atari
maharg2017@reddit
Whoa! That took me back!
yeahyeahalwayslate@reddit
meat_sack@reddit (OP)
I'm glad a few people understood the title's reference!
yeahyeahalwayslate@reddit
I even read it in that cadence and tone 😆
DaddyOhMy@reddit
Anyone else hear Wayne's voice reading the title?
meat_sack@reddit (OP)
That was my intention... a few people got it!
Academic_Rutabaga649@reddit
If you tweaked with it right you could watch the Holmes vs Clooney pay per view championship fight for free.
leeloo72@reddit
I had one (not sure if it was Coleco) for my Commodore Vic20 cartridge games. Those were the days lol
Purgii@reddit
Exact same device (apart from the Coleco logo) I had on my pong gaming machine.
I got it for Christmas, took my parents something like 8 hours to try and set up. They advised that I would have to learn how to connect/disconnect it because they didn't want to have it permanently connected. 30 seconds later, I was able to disconnect and reconnect it.
No idea what took them 8 hours to figure out, but 50 years later I've been in IT for 30 years - and my mother is still able to break stuff on her PC I never thought possible. Funniest one - she somehow made the icons on her desktop as large as the entire screen. She described it as 'I've lost my google'.
tvodny@reddit
I loved my pong. Beep Bope. Beep Bope. Beep Bope. Beep Bope.
brent_stones@reddit
Im a millennial and I know what that is
SpanishFlamingoPie@reddit
After I fell off my toilet, I drew this.... The flux capacitor.
jpetersell@reddit
Unhappy flashbacks.
Malinois_beach@reddit
I learned to never change the switch with wet hands.woth that Identical unit! Got quite the shock.
HeftyAd2780@reddit
dangoodspeed@reddit
Ooh, Coleco!
LifeAsNix@reddit
Holy crap!! I’ve been looking everywhere, since 1989, for that thing! I accidentally left it on the tv my brother took off to Colorado with. I miss my odyssey 3000
Obwyn@reddit
I had one for Atari.
RiversSecondWife@reddit
I have been shocked by this item too many times.
Lopsided_Panic_1148@reddit
Why did you listen to your wife? Was it cheap?
SAG2025@reddit
LOL. I haven't see one of those is ages....LOL
duhh___gch@reddit
Vintage
JustMeOttawa@reddit
I had a Coleco vision; recognized this immediately.
Blah-B7ah_Bloop@reddit
Oh wow. Haven’t seen those in a million years
WorldsMostDad@reddit
My first console!
Jahidinginvt@reddit
Mine too!!
Jahidinginvt@reddit
I had a Colecovision!! Oh man! Wish I still had it.
TheJokersWild53@reddit
I was 6 and hooked my ColecoVision up to the TV.
Gilamunsta@reddit
Thanks I feel old Is it dirty now LOL
MamaCassegrain@reddit
Where's the channel 2/3 selector?
AngelHeart-@reddit
We had one for Atari.
Also for splitting cable.
remembertoread@reddit
Throwback
Wallis614@reddit
Yooooooooo!
weird-un-normal5150@reddit
I had one of these back when I was about 12 years old in 1980 and it had that switching box this was high-tech shnit
doihafta@reddit
Not a fellow Nate The Hoof Guy enthusiast! 👋
weird-un-normal5150@reddit
That too. I have no idea how I started probably cause I watched other zip popping videos but now I’ve been watching the hoof guy.🤪🤪🤪🤪💥
Intelligent-North957@reddit
I remember that.
Sherifftruman@reddit
We had a ColecoVision! Loved that system.
LindoCoffe@reddit
I still have one with my Atari game system.
ProfessionalCup7135@reddit
Same. My Atari 2600 has this in the game storage base.
Unlikely-Low-8132@reddit
I have a couple in the junk cord box
macaronsandmurder@reddit
This unlocked a memory. I’m so glad for this group
SomeAreSomeAreNot@reddit
Oh, man. Multiple memories unlocked.
Weird-Girl-675@reddit
Time to play with the Atari!!!
Tiger_St_Elmo-1@reddit
I came here to say that. It also made me think that probably 1981 I spent the exorbitant price of $35 for Defender cartridge for the Atari 2600. I still have the console and games. I played Tank until I wore blisters on my hand.
OneApprehensive327@reddit
But first game of Pong!
Scary-Consequence604@reddit
I got zapped by one of these. Hole in my thumb where the electricity went in and another hole in my toe where I earthed. Fun times!!
_coffee_@reddit
I take it you didn't get in trouble? Sounds like you weren't grounded.
Soreal45@reddit
This picture gives me nightmares
ebunky@reddit
Just found one of those in my garage. I used to have a ColecoVision!
zoot_boy@reddit
And that was the day we all became amateur engineers.
meat_sack@reddit (OP)
...and our parents looked to us like we were top level programmers for being able to set the clock on the VCR.
Dru-baskAdam@reddit
I was the one holding the flashlight for dad when he was working behind the TV (and the truck).
Guess who was invited to play games in everyone’s dorm room… for the small admission price of setting up the systems. My boyfriend was an electrical engineer major and I had to set his up too.
All you had to know is input (game/vcr,etc) and output to the tv or the switch then tv if you wanted a game system & the vcr.
Funkgun@reddit
Bonus points if you could Actually program it to record a show when you were out
NamoIsland@reddit
How much were they charging?
dixiech1ck@reddit
Had this for my Atari and Nintendo 64 when we played on the large floor TV in the basement.
xydaeus@reddit
I had this for my 1st console. A Coleco Telstar Arcade.
HCraven1@reddit
One came with our Telstar Ranger.
Moist_Potato_8904@reddit
oh the good times...
LonelyMachines@reddit
I had a Colecovision back in the day. I played the heck of out Zaxxon on it.
Those controllers probably gave a bunch of kids carpal tunnel syndrome.
sissydv23@reddit
Hahah omg I just found my colecovision a couple of weeks ago with Carnival still in it. I am in the hunt for the smurfs game and donkey Kong.
Dannyboyrusso@reddit
I had one
Strict_Weather9063@reddit
One shit we replace three of these over the years two for the Atari and one for the commodore.
Traditional_Sir_4503@reddit
Replaced three of them? HOW? That stuff was made of adamantium. You could have used it to drive nails and stop bullets.
Strict_Weather9063@reddit
The clips break.
AutoKalash47-74@reddit
Before AV (red/yellow) cables.
tiny_chaotic_evil@reddit
colecovision was the best vision but intellivision was pretty good too
BuckRusty@reddit
Mate of mine had a few brothers, and one of them Jerry-rigged one of these into an adaptor for his Mega Drive…
Crafty_Calico@reddit
This just triggered some good memories!
SouthernWalk1928@reddit
It’s an adapter switcher. Instead of input you used these
Hot-Freedom-5886@reddit
I can’t tell you how much I’d love to have something like that instead of going through menus getting from HDMI 1 to HDMI 3.
ninjohnnothing@reddit
Instead you get to switch to channel 3
nate8088@reddit
I'm still sad my dad gave away my coleco when I was away at college.
DelphinusC@reddit
I'm pretty sure no TV you actually own today has those VHF screw terminals to attach this to
Ok_Act4459@reddit
I don’t think he was planning on using it
WolvesandTigers45@reddit
Sweet find
WarpJuiceWookie@reddit
Holy shit !! My second game console adapter.
/rfuckimold
this_time_i_mean_it@reddit
Just pulled one of these out the other day. Didn't think I had one. Still need an adapter to connect my Colecovision to any of my CRTs, though... even those are all 'too new' for the manual switcher!
KLLR_ROBOT@reddit
I remember installing the modulator for my Atari 2600 - a glorious day indeed.
arbogasts@reddit
Was it an Aludium Pew 36 Explosive Space Modulator
gregorygreg2323@reddit
The gateway to gaming
mustardmadman@reddit
I played a lot of video games through my tiny black and white tv in the 80s via one of these
Good times
pete_oleary@reddit
That takes me back 🥹
railworx@reddit
How do you NOT know what that is??
crossstitchbeotch@reddit
Oh man, I had one for my Intellivision II
He_that_Is357@reddit
I KNOW exactly what that is!
He_that_Is357@reddit
I KNOW exactly what that is!
grumpvet87@reddit
I was an OG Intellivision user. ColecoVision was the upgrade
Happy_Veggie@reddit
I still have my Intellivision and I still have that connector.
Just not sure how I can plug the console on an hdmi tv now 😅
GeordieAl@reddit
There’s composite and HDMI(RGB2HDMI) mods available for Intellivision :)
Happy_Veggie@reddit
Wait what? You're telling me I could play Night Stalker again???
GeordieAl@reddit
You certainly can! or even play the sequel Ms. Night Stalker
bird9066@reddit
We have a TV upstairs in my son's house that probably weighs 800 pounds.
He bought the house from my mother and his cousins lived up there for a while. They got a dumpster before we moved in.
You know we checked that TV before they bothered hauling it downstairs. Currently have the game cube and PlayStation 2 hooked up.
Happy_Veggie@reddit
Lol.. yeah those TVs were as big as an upright piano.
But I'm sure it exist some adaptor box for this.. Somewhere
grumpvet87@reddit
can't you just screw it into the UHF antenna plate on the back?? /s
Happy_Veggie@reddit
Integrated bluetooth of course!
jeffsket@reddit
oh shit
Beliliou74@reddit
Hotcakes420@reddit
Oh hell! Remember that fondly👾
ringoou812@reddit
And you didn’t already have 3 in your junk drawer at home??
GeordieAl@reddit
3? Are you an amateur GenX’er? I’ve got about 6 of them within a few feet of my office chair, plus more in my “random wires and electronics box” in the basement, and some more in my sorted wires and electronics drawers
phillymjs@reddit
But why keep them? I collect retro consoles, and the only manual TV/game switchbox I definitely have is the one that came with the 2600 of one of my childhood friends when I rescued it from being thrown out by his parents in the early 90s, along with all his games. There might be one more from my childhood Colecovision.
These days, if you're still playing games on the original hardware all you need is a coax-to-RF adapter, so there's no need to keep a switchbox around at all unless you're gonna really kick it old school and play them on an ancient TV that has screw terminals.
GeordieAl@reddit
I collect vintage computers and I like to keep everything that came with each system. Original PSUs, TV/Game switch boxes, original cables, boxes etc.
Funny thing is, until I moved to Canada I'd never seen a TV/Game switch box - coax was the standard in the UK, so we'd just yank out the TV Aerial and plug in the computer, or later on when we got "fancy" we'd have a Y splitter. So seeing all these North American vintage computers with their TV/Game switch box was a novelty
flaginorout@reddit
Could come in handy one day…..never know
ExtraAd7611@reddit
Yeah no. These became paperweights when TV's went digital around 2005.
double__duck@reddit
Y'all use channel 3 or 4 for Vidya games
Krimreaper1@reddit
3, 4 was NY NBC
double__duck@reddit
All my homies use channel 3 😎
KLLR_ROBOT@reddit
This 👆
TheJokersChild@reddit
And I guess 3 was still NBC too, until the big switch.
Krimreaper1@reddit
We could get Philly nbc on 3 too
StandardNerd92@reddit
I had something similar come with my N64 in the UK in 97'
SCART had only been a thing for 20 years 🙄
FriendRaven1@reddit
Colecovision was awesome. Still have mine, and about 20 games.
Specific-Reindeer-85@reddit
Got rid of mine about 4 years ago. Had 33 games
Vegancyclist420@reddit
Amazing!
PilotGuy701@reddit
I had the RadioShack version. Hooked up to an Intellivision II.
Beetso@reddit
I want to hook up the Intellivision!
Soft_Storm6151@reddit
Ha ha! I was looking for this comment! Was gonna give a shout out to the old Intellivision if no one else did. We didn’t have an Atari or Sega like everyone else, which I thought was kind of embarrassing until I realized my friends actually thought it was cool cuz no one else had one & we could play games they don’t have like Frogger & Burger Time. The controllers were definitely…unique on that thing.
impeesa75@reddit
I had to check to make sure this wasn’t r//whatsthisthing
mtysassy@reddit
Same!!!!
rangeo@reddit
RF Modulator
You have to say it in a robot voice.
rockabillyjilly@reddit
Coleco Adam
AnotherTechWonk@reddit
Colecovision, before the Adam. I think the Adam was a year after that (which I wanted, but my parents invested in the Osbourne.)
TheJokersChild@reddit
Cousin had the Adam. And the ColecoVision. And the Atari adapter. AND the steering wheel. He went all-out.
Cytwytever@reddit
Aawww, that's adorable.
SuburbanHell@reddit
So we're coming over to your house to play Atari right?
ExceptforAlice@reddit
Channel 3! I still have my Chopper Command and River Raid patches from mailing in a picture of my score.
LDawnBurges@reddit
River Raid was my FAVE Atari game! These patches are awesome!
PJBleakney@reddit
Chopper command, great game
Dnommyarr@reddit
That is amazing.
Groovy_tofu7614@reddit
Memory unlocked. Oh…the hours of Ladybug, Donkey Kong and Mario Bros! The best times.
XyzGangster@reddit
It was tapper and the cabbage patch kids game for me !!
CaydeTheCat@reddit
Pitfall for me on the Atari 2600.
CK_CoffeeCat@reddit
Ahhhhh!! We had one of those to hook up the Vic20! 😆
Subject_Issue6529@reddit
OMG! How much? I need one, mine stopped working for some reason and I'm addicted to pong!
jcrckstdy@reddit
Estate sale is very genx
MostlyBrine@reddit
I still have the full coax version in my junk drawer. I used it, back when I was a poor immigrant to switch between the antenna and the VCR that I picked up from the cuve in front of a house in wealthy neighborhood.
musing_codger@reddit
I have a whole collection of tech from my youth and my kid's use in a display case in our theater. It doesn't include a switch like this, but it has things like an old Atari, a GameCube, a DS, a Wii, my father's old drafting tools, a TI-94 calculator, or other stuff. It's fun having a little museum of things that were once incredibly meaningful in our lives.
clvitte@reddit
Omg!!!
Authoritaye@reddit
A relic from the distant past. CO-LE-CO they called it.
Sometimes_I_Do_That@reddit
Short for The COnnecticut LEather COmpany.
SomePeopleCallMeJJ@reddit
Tandy got its start selling leather too, long before it bought Radio Shack.
Not sure what was going on back then that made leather companies want to start selling video games and computers.
Aromatic_Revolution4@reddit
Nothing makes me feel quite as warm and fuzzy all over as a' '70s era RF Modulator.
canuckEnoch@reddit
I still have two of these in active use!
HezFez238@reddit
Amazing piece of tech that made the world our oyster
thisoldguy74@reddit
Estate sales are wild for seeing random stuff from decades gone by. You never know what you'll stumble into seeing that someone else hung onto.
og_jasperjuice@reddit
Oh the memories.
XennialPrime@reddit
Wow.
Just the picture pulled me through the fourth dimension and for a split second, I could smell the dust and what a CRT does to a room's air... good, stinky nostalgia.
JWOOP!
Whew! Back in 2026. Holy CRAP! I have a nice place! Wow!
AbbeyRoad75@reddit
And you may ask yourself, ‘Am I right, am I wrong’
XennialPrime@reddit
Hahahah. I can hear the music. ♫ Doo-d-doo-doot-doot ♫
I recite "and you may fahn yo'sehf" as a sound byte, like Bumblebee trying to communicate, more often than I realized.
sitewolf@reddit
Still remember the puzzled look on my dad's face when he came home and it wasn't TV showing on his TV.
fastdub@reddit
I remember my dad whipping me with the tv cable when he realised I'd plugged my megadrive into the family tv that day and forgot to plug the cable back in
NoriShore@reddit
Atari & pong until our hands were cramped.
yayayagilliganhell@reddit
Still have one or two of those around the house somewhere, not branded Coleco though.
4rt4tt4ck@reddit
Channel 3.
Logen-Nine-Fingers@reddit
Not to be all fancy, but I had one where you could pick channel 3 or 4
antsinurplants@reddit
sw33tpea66@reddit
Well, La tee da🤣
Fee_is_Required2@reddit
Show off!
🤣
namtilarie@reddit
a switch AND 75 ohm to 300 ohm converter...
TheFoxsWeddingTarot@reddit
Back when Radio Shack was the original DIY Depot.
LadySlayinem@reddit
That voice-"Coleco Vision"
smellmyfinger22@reddit
Man, I LOVED my ColecoVision! I remember when my father brought it home and we set it up and the graphics were unbelievable.
nomaxxallowed@reddit
Atari
Ok-Entertainment5045@reddit
Had one on our Radio Shack TRS80 computer that used an old tv for the monitor.
Butterscotch929@reddit
Atari rules
Shrolos@reddit
Wow haven't seen one of those in 35 years.
kjc-01@reddit
Dibs on next game of Pong!
EuroGeek67@reddit
It's an RF modulator.
DJMagicHandz@reddit
Those little cables were made out of bubblegum and fairy kisses
Individual-Trick3310@reddit
Branded Coleco? That's cool AF. You should have bought and framed it anyway, just make it good and unobtrusive.
okram2k@reddit
had a colecovision in my very young days, we got it at a yard sale for like $5
Fuck-s-p-e-z-@reddit
Same. Got a good condition system and a few games for cheap at a garage sale when I was very young. I played a lot of "Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle" and "Mouse Trap". There are a lot of great games for the system I only recently discovered too, like "Night Stalker" and "Alcazar: The Forgotten Fortress".
Individual-Trick3310@reddit
The calendrical sweet spot when the old tech is everywhere and no one cares.
itaintme1x2x3x@reddit
Well cool RF
Individual-Trick3310@reddit
chef's kiss
TheGirlwThePinkHair@reddit
I still have mine in the box with my Atari
ExcellentHorror9025@reddit
Me too. Don't use it but I've one or two of these still kicking around my collection
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NotOK1955@reddit
Ah! Coleco! I had this, back then!
The ColecoVision, launched in 1982, is known for bringing arcade-quality games home, featuring popular titles like Donkey Kong, Zaxxon, and Lady Bug
noiseguy76@reddit
And had a bunch of cool one off controllers.
evidentlynaught@reddit
I had those 3, and Smurfs Adventure in Gargamel’s Castle! Carnival was s blast too.
phillymjs@reddit
You're in the Gen X subreddit, we don't need the AI summary of what a Colecovision was, we were there to experience it.
kanrad@reddit
I see I was mistaken in believing my mortal enemy did not survive the landfill.
NoStyle79@reddit
This came with my NES rentals between 89 and 93.. can't believe people still have these crazy awesome
Bemfic@reddit
I still have one of these in my memory box
DeaddyRuxpin@reddit
I bet her first gaming system was a Nintendo. They came with an auto switching box. People who didn’t have older systems like the Colecovision or Atari 2600 never had to deal with manually switching the box so they wouldn’t know what that is.
phillymjs@reddit
The Atari 5200 was the first system to come with an auto switcher, but it was only with the early models that had 4 controller ports. The switcher was apparently terrible and failure prone, and was dropped when the revised 2-port unit was released.
yarn_slinger@reddit
I’m pretty sure there’s one in my random cables drawer
UniqueIndividual3579@reddit
I finally threw out my roll of 300 Ohm Twinax.
wildmaninid@reddit
Oh yeah, there's todays hit of nostalgia.
93195@reddit
The original “input” button on modern TVs.
deathcoinstar@reddit
You don't realize how happy I was when I figured out my N64 and GameCube VGA cables fit into my SNES over a decade ago
DiverDownChunder@reddit
I have a couple Radio Shack ones, Coleco, thats really cool!
I have them for my PXL2000
Independent-Dog5311@reddit
FLASHBACK to cable TV days!
Capital-Brilliant-28@reddit
I still have m8ne from when I was a kid. Brings back so many memories.
mulligrubs@reddit
I figured out that the two core wire would work as an antenna when connected to a metal coat hanger hanging out the window and would watch the Kenny Everett show on my small black and white TV when I was supposed to be sleeping.
ExtraAd7611@reddit
Yeah the Mrs. was right about this one. That would have gone straight into the junk closet and sat there until you move or die. What was the price?
meat_sack@reddit (OP)
No price on it... would have tossed it in a box with other stuff hoping to pay like $5 for everything... but didn't buy anything else from there. Besides, I'd have needed to find a granite pedistal for it, install proper lighting to wash over it... would have been a whole thing.
ExtraAd7611@reddit
So, like $400 then?
13scribes@reddit
Nice.
SuperTomServo@reddit
Had the same switch for my Atari 7800. A UHF loop antenna would complete the set.
TheTrollys@reddit
Atari 7800? Those weren’t around long. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen one in the wild.
SuperTomServo@reddit
I think they were produced for five or six years. Nintendo dominated that period, though.
Aggravating-Kale1837@reddit
Wouldn’t hurt to keep in a junk drawer
Bucktabulous@reddit
Just in case.
Final-Contract-6582@reddit
I have one of these for a sega genisis. Another one for an atari 2600. Cool find!
3rdWaveHarmonic@reddit
A real Bobby Dazler
SadCheesecake2539@reddit
Score!!!!!!!
lopix@reddit
Sweet baby jeebus, just hand me some Metamucil and fuck off
Powerful-Act3516@reddit
I guess they didn't still have the console to hook it into!
Killertigger@reddit
Ok, you need to turn in your Gen X card for not picking that up. I mean, how much could that have possible cost? One day, you’re going to stumble in an old console and need that - and you’re not going to have it. Remember this moment.
DangerBird-@reddit
And there is no more Radio Shack to acquire one from.
krebstorm@reddit
He's got a box of them at home already.
Killertigger@reddit
Ok, you’re good then. Although, you may need just one more…
Interesting-Air-223@reddit
Still have mine for the Atari....and the Atari!
jeffnorris@reddit
That's awesome
DangerBird-@reddit
Jealous! That’s awesome!
Thecalin33@reddit
I recall when I first learned of these as a kid. When I was a youngin' we traveled with my dad out of state and stayed in a hotel so he could get some extra training for his job. Because we were going to be there all week my dad hooked up my intellivision and/or atari to the hotel tv (obviously using this connector or one very similar). Not long after there were four cop cars in the parking lot, lights being shined in the window and we were being yelled at. I (a stupid little shit, age 4) just kept playing my game and ignored the chaos. Turns out Dad had somehow disabled some kind of anti theft on the TV when he hooked up the system. Rather than phone down and ask the hotel called out every barney fife in a 20 mile area. Eventually my poor father (several sheets to the wind at this point) was able to convince the cops that for at least the week I was stuck there that was the safest television in the county. At first the cop was going to make him take off the connector to plug back in the anti theft alarm, but I lost my shit (did I mention I was a stupid kid?) and they relented. I'm sure they felt sympathetic for my family if they'd been cooped up with me in that tiny room for a week with zero entertainment. That was my first real interaction with one of these adapters (as it usually just stayed hooked up to our TV and I never thought about it)
DangerBird-@reddit
That’s a wild story. Thank you!
Monoprice706@reddit
Damn, I’m old…. Brings back a lot of good memories.
Historical_Nail7271@reddit
PONG!!!
greihund@reddit
Better set the dial to channel 3
goddamn2fa@reddit
The original KVM switch.
kobuta99@reddit
Some where in a landfill is my small 15 inch black and white TV with knobs, and this attachment in the back.
St_ofQualityFootwear@reddit
Rf modulator for the win
foamsprayer@reddit
I do not miss those things and the crappy video games to look forward to when it all worked.
By the time Nintendo and Sega Master system came about they also had those input switching boxes but they were automatic
Current_Analysis_104@reddit
Shocking that, at some point in the past, that was advanced technology.
Roofies666@reddit
I would buy that immedately just to remember what it was like.
Foulmouthedleon@reddit
I haven't thought about one of those things in years. Instant memories!
smellmyfinger22@reddit
There are some ideas that require overruling the wife, and yours was one of them. SHAME on you for allowing this golden opportunity to pass you by. Lol. 🤣👍🏻
Vulturev4@reddit
First time I seen one of those, my dad was hooking up the pong console to the black-and-white TV
Moonsmom181@reddit
My brain just 🤯
whitneyscrackpipe@reddit
Hook it up and I will smoke your ass in Choplifter
FakenFrugenFrokkels@reddit
Just in case you might need it! Ahhh doesn’t that feel great? At any moment a Colecovision will appear and you’ll be ready! 😃😍
sorry_for_the_reply@reddit
Video games only work on channel 3
grumpvet87@reddit
3 or 4..
JoeLinux247@reddit
I remember that device, as my Coleco Telstar connected to it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Telstar_series
TheJokersChild@reddit
Was there a ColecoVision that went with it?
meat_sack@reddit (OP)
Sadly, no... but given the age of the woman who lived there, she was probably a really cool grandma to some Gen Xers and/or Millenials!
New-Days-Dawning@reddit
Needs to be in r/fuckimold!
meat_sack@reddit (OP)
Fucki mold sounds deadly. /s
A_Gray_Old_Man@reddit
Go back and buy that. Fold the long connectors neatly behind it. Mount it on a cassette tape standing on a corner so it looks artsy. Proudly place that monument to our generation in the one spot your wife allows you to have.
deephurting66@reddit
Atari 2600 replaced by NES.. I'm a grandpa
Fit_Poetry_267@reddit
Oh wow - my Atari was hooked up to one of these
PageBroad3731@reddit
I had a Coleco. Brings back memories.
Daddioster@reddit
I’m old
CheesecakeSea6471@reddit
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who still uses "abso-fucking-lutely". Props to the missus anyway.
LackOfStack@reddit
Nice.