I had to fast forward or rewind a cassette tape to a specific time to play a game in the computer.

Me at the zoo

Having to hook up my consoles to a VCR.

Yeah I remember getting all excited the day we had a TV with a RCA/AV jack and thought, damn I'm going all kinds of hi-def now!

I actually know what this means, from getting my mom’s Atari to work on my grandmother’s TV

I think it was channel 2 for that one though, idk. We switched to using the flatscreen because of the annoying high pitched noise. (To the annoyance of all retro gamers who read this)

Let's listen to this radio station play an unholy noise for about 30 minutes, record it in a cassette tape, and play the game recorded in those BAUD BOIS

Video games involved putting a sheet of acetate over the b&w tv screen and then drawing with a wax pencil where the dashed line appears (Winky Dink ruled - and don’t forget to put the acetate on the screen or Dad will get mad).

You used to have to print out a document and then scan it into another machine that would use landlines to send it to another printer so someone, somewhere else, could have the document.

My first one was wood grained