This is my original Genesis I bought in like '92(?) with one of my first paychecks from my first job at Chuck E. Cheese’s (yes I’m fucking old).

I thought I sold it years ago but found out it was sitting in one of my mom’s closets, so I bought a few cheap carts and hooked it up to a crt I keep around for just such occasions. It still works!

I am so goddamn happy, I just had to share and I figured you all might appreciate that.

  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Jesus Christ, don’t toss it!

    I repair older consoles insofar I come across them. They’re not made anymore so I like to preserve them.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve kept it this long because I too would like to preserve it, and up until a couple of years ago, it was running fine. I’ll keep it in the garage for now and see if I can get it going again one of these days. I even brought home this old flat plasma screen that work was throwing away. This predates HDMI and digital signals. But its a big screen (40"+) for it’s age and rather thin. It was probably a $10k screen at the time. I kept it around because one day I wanted to hook up the Genesis to it because it takes in analog inputs like component and composite (as well as VGA).

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        1 year ago

        Sounds great, but I’ll have you know you can buy a cable to connect to composite. That’s how I hooked up mine to my modern TV. Works great. I have an old CRT too, that’s where it’s hooked up most of the time.