I had a black and white television as a kid and had a super nintendo hooked up to it. I remember playing Mario Kart and used to think the turtle shells behaved randomly since the green and red shells looked the same.
I had this lil tiny black and white tv I played my snes and mega drive on :P I had loads of games but liked the wrestling games most as was into WWE at the time :P I never had lot of money as a kid so playing it on the lil black and white was the best thing ever and still fond memories of it today :)
Interesting you said that... When the Game Boy came into existence, they game developers for Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2 made "extra lives" as hearts for that exact same reason. They knew it would be in Black and White (err, I mean Green and White) which the red mushrooms and green mushrooms look identical.
You should do a yearly meta-video where you watch yourself on this TV watching yourself on this TV, watching yourself buy this TV. Adding a layer each year.
I finally did this with some portable TVs, but went a step further by using an antenna to actually broadcast my HDMI signal across the room to several TVs at once. It's so dumb and I love it.
@@saem369 so you need a few things to make it work, but it's quite simple: 1. An HDMI to analog composite converter (most converters are composite to HDMI so you have to pay attention) 2. An RF modulator: you can buy dedicated ones for cheap but if you want to make sure the audio and video are correctly tuned the best thing you can get is an old VCR with composite inputs and a coax antenna out. Only the cheapest or very last models didn't have both of these. 3. Some coax cable and antenna signal amplifiers. You will be screwing these in backwards, so instead of amplifying the signal coming from an antenna, it's boosting the signal going to an antenna. 4. An antenna. Plug this in to the amplifiers connected to the VCR, make sure the settings are correct, and this is all you technically need. 5. Set your tv(s) to channel 3 and you're good to go!
You have no idea how happy this video made me. That is the same model TV I had to play NES and SNES on when I was a kid. It wasn't until 93 that I got to have them setup on a color tv at home.
Now I'm going to be spending quite a bit of time trying to find one. So far my first searches haven't come up with anything. Do you have any pointers in finding very old tech like this?
My gosh.... the retro commercials on the black and white TV set! My first TV set was a 13" black and white hand me down that my parents gave to me for my bedroom. This is some serious nostalgia!
I've got a 5:4 LXI Squareview from 1985 with color and a coaxial port rather than a built in antenna. Set that next to this GoldStar from only one year previous, and it looks pretty strange doesn't it XD
You're probably right. That's proven by the separation of video parts in component connections; they wouldn't have separated color from BW luma in the first place if it didn't make a noticeable difference.
Back in 2006, my buddy from high school had a top of the time pc hooked up to one of those old mid to late 80's pc monitors that said "Low Radiation" at the bottom of the screen. It was quite the sight to behold.
dude.....fallout looks better in a weird as insane way this way. thank you for the efforts, it reminds me of being a kid and hooking up my atari switcher box that switched from tv to game and then setting up my atari to channel 3.
Ahhh...the days of the horizontal hold knob... Waiting for the TV to warm up... The smell of burnt paper-wrapped capacitors... The heat of the tubes... Watching the national anthem at midnight before channel transmission stopped for the night (all 10 of them)... I feel reeeeealy old.
+The 8 Bit Kid Yeah, the nickname refers to the hue-drift problem present in NTSC. Some European engineers looked at it, said "we can do better" and got to work. The French team came up with SECAM, while the German team came up with PAL. They take different approaches to fixing the problem, though the underlying black-and-white system is the same, which makes the black-and-white signal mutually viewable. In divided Berlin, both sides would tune into the other's TV broadcasts in black-and-white and watch their own in colour (PAL in the west, SECAM in the east). +Killer Keemstar I hope that was a joke about stupid Yanks who think they're better than everyone else when they're obviously not. The way you worded it isn't terribly clear.
My parents had this EXACT television set back in the 80's! It wasn't the main TV, but it did sit in the play room so my siblings and I could watch movies and such back in the day. So cool to see you found one!
Thank you for acknowledging the correct meaning of “factoid”! It annoys me every time someone uses it to mean “small fact”, when it really means “statement that sounds like an interesting fact except for not being true”.
Clint,you are “the” man. Of all the games,you pick Fallout. I’m having an entire weekend of LGR,with the mornings being for Thrifts,odd wear in the afternoons and a mixture of everything else through the evening and night.
He should have played one of the fallout 4 training videos that they released as trailers for the special thing that would have been awesome to see on this tv! You should upload a bonus video just showing those!
Dude start another channel and just play those old school commercials on that TV. Like one or two commercials every video. I guarantee thousands of hits. GUARANTEEEEEEEEEEE
I grew up playing my ps2 and n64 on an old 80's tv just like this one. It didn't have av inputs so we had to get a vcr and plug it in through the antenna port, then plug the console into the av ports of the vcr. I remember how ecstatic I was when we got it all working.
@@tunkunrunk @tecknos africa I was like 8..The N64, I found that at a second hand book store for $30. I (foolishly) sold it at a car boot sale for the same price to put towards my ps2 some years later. I saved every cent for that ps2. Luckily I was an only child (of sorts, it's a long story), so my dad would give me pretty good pocket money. The trade off was that I had to buy stuff I wanted with my own money. So yeah I finished up playing Eye Toy on this very old TV. Oh and the other thing, thinking about it now, I'm pretty sure the TV was atleast 70's, possibly even older. It didn't get replaced till about 2007.
@@danem2215 I can understand why he's being sceptical. I was raised on a farm by my Single father, with no siblings around. They all moved away when my parent's split. I had a very bizarre upbringing, you probably wouldn't believe most of it.
Kind of related: When I finished grade school my mom bought me a little portable 13" or so B&W TV and it was awesome. I hooked up my Gamecube and actually played and finished Turok: Evolution. The TV was only a bit bigger than the Gamecube. That was he most modern console on an B&W TV I've ever played. Fun times.
I used to play Spyro the Dragon on a 11 inch black and white tv, was almost impossible to tell the difference between land and water. At least doing that got me skilled enough to 100% the game in an hour and a half when playing color.
Oh man I'm with you on that. I had a 5 inch portable B&W TV/AM FM radio combo thing from the late 90s that I had to play xbox and ps2 on after my CRT broke. Trying times for sure, but not exactly uncommon to do stuff like that when you had to back then.
My brother did that a few years back. He was tired of having a crazy amount of consoles and just built them into an old CRT. It was the actual hardware just stuck inside the TV and you plugged the cartridges on top of the TV. While that was fun, using a Raspberry Pi to fit an entire game library into a TV would be a lot smarter...
Somehow playing fallout 4 which is like a alternate futuristic 40's game just makes sense to be played on this. That sir is whole new level of FO4 gameplay.
@@LGR pity the HDMI converter doesn't output component video; you could've thrown away the useless chroma signals and fed the pure, unmolested, high-resolution luma signal directly into the TV.
Ah, black and white TV. At 43 years old, I for whatever reason find myself nostalgic for black and white TVs. My first TV was a black and white TV from P.C. Richard's. Fun fact, you can probably buy one up until 1993. But that hum, along with G.I. Joe, the Smurfs, and Duck Tales, oh so nostalgic.
thanks for the memories man. just playing those old commercials in mono sound on a actual mono tv brought me back to the late 80's as a kid watching the old tube tv we had.ghostbusters and he man.
Frank Thoughts super sampled antialiasing when running high res on a low res screen. It’s quite fascinating. I remember when I would visit home from college and play my PS3 on a CRT tv and it I remember being surprised at how playable it still was and down sampled pretty smoothly.
When the quality is low enough, it is hard to tell the difference. Real people had to wear way more makeup to look normal on standard def TVs. TV makeup artists had to totally change their approach and news shows all had to buy new desks because you could read what the anchors would write on the old desks. When you go back to that world, it is a lot easier to achieve photorealism.
@@Sam_on_RU-vid is that why celebrities often tarted themselves up on older shows? Because if they didn't, people wouldn't be able to even see their lip movements?
My dad had this same TV in our garage back in the early 80's for some reason. He would work on Pontiac parts and watch TV and me and my brothers typically were not allowed in. I do have a vivid memory of watching part of a Cleveland Browns playoff game with him on this TV at some point. This video brought back many memories and I thank you.
Curve cart are not the best crts get the flat ones basically a flat screen but its cooler but moar expensive if get a big one but the pixels are better.
Just wanted to say that I've been watching you for a while now (at least a few years), and it's cool to see how much your videos and host personality have developed. I always appreciate your uniquity!
Kizzy Wattier well I got my black and white TV for $10, the RF modulator for $23 and I'm going to need to spend another $10 or so on an Hdmi to Rca converter... So yea... It adds up.
SO you guys are wanting to do this as an alternative to a monitor? You crazy. This is for cool factor only. Just saying. Also most of us who have had tons of equipment over the years have most of those adapters and cables laying around. Me is pack Rat...
CurtisAlfeld And TV's without SCART or any other socket to plug Video Tape Recorder. Actually during the second half of XX century in communist part of Europe technology was much less advanced than in America, black and white TVs where more popular that color TB probalby to the '90. I'm from Poland and I was born in 2000, but some older people from my family still had their old black and white TVs before 2005. And I think that newer TVs, CRT color TVs, which were not bad for just watching tv sometimes, would be still used by older people if analog TV wasn't shut down in 2012. And Poland is one of countries that managed to change political system without crisis, thanks to Leszek Balcerowicz, in poorer countries, like Ukraine or Serbia. black and white TVs might have been more common in '90 and '00. Also VHS video tape Recorders where popular longer than in USA.
I have issues....... Love your vids, My downfall however is falling asleep staying up watching to many, then autoplay takes over and I end up missing videos I havent watched yet as RU-vid assumes I was awake and watching you! Now I've just found loads I haven't watched yet and I'm hyped. Keep making the great vids you do. Humour is on point and perfectly balanced. Awesome script skills for the info videos, great voice to pleasure my ears and lots of beautiful retro tech. Love it. All of it
Some tech dude at a electric store "There are 4K widescreen monitors with surround sound speakers with colour picture". Me/you "FUCK THAT I will play games on my black and white box for 1/80 of the price".
How could you have ever wondered that? He's the doc for crying out loud! If he can make a time machine, of course he can connect a future boy portable video studio to his television set : )
My parents bought a VHS Camcorder similar to the one Marty had in the movie just a couple years after the movie came out, and If I remember correctly it had a special box you plugged into the back of the camera via a special connector, and it broke the signals out to both RCA composite, and RF coaxial cable, and in the case they even included the little transformer for older TV's. So I would not be surprised if Marty had everything needed to hook up the camera to that 50's TV inside the carry case.
Wow. I hardly see TVs that old at the Goodwill I work at. At most, the TVs I walk by on the sales floor are mid-90s, early 2000s. Thanks, LGR. I feel old. LOL
Ha ha, I saw this comment just after Clint stopped the commercials and commented on that he needed to stop before the duck tails theme got stuck in his head. XD
I had model very similar to this as a kid as a cast off that my parents weren't using anymore. Played a lot of super Mario Bros 3 in back and white lol. Thanks for dredging up a lot of fond childhood memories.
Yeah, I noticed the interlacing too... Somehow the tv can't compensate for it like it should. There should be a prog/interlace switch on that modulator. I had the same issue when I ran my C64 through a dvd recorder and onto an old 1983 CRT.
+Christopher Sobieniak To be fair, most of the interlacing artifacts are probably from the converters. On old TVs, something about the analog nature just turned 'interlacing' into 'mild flicker' when it was all said and done (the latter being vastly preferable imo). The crazy overscan is par for the course though.
Wouldn't things that add film grain already be just too much with a crt? Unless you can turn off film grain on Evil Within then nevermind, I just know it has it.
Lunella Wintermint Just try it outside. solder on a new plug and wire, take it outside away from your house, plud it into a power strip with protection, then step back and turn the power strip on. just take all necessary precautions.
I remember I used to play Sega Genesis and Sega CD games on a black and white TV in the mid 90s. This video got me all nostalgic for those days although I did not miss it when I finally got a color TV set for Christmas in 1997 still RF input but at least it was color!!
Cheaper. With my first computer in 1983 I had a black and white portable set which cost £49.95. Later on I got a colour portable, which as I recall was nearly twice as expensive.
Well of course a Portable PC from the 80s would be in B&W. Most if not all were at the time. I'm talking about TVs though. Though there were Colour portables they weren't even that common until the late 80s/Early 90s.
+Sixtyforce YTP I also am talking about TVs. The computer was a ZX Spectrum - LGR has a feature about it if you don't recognise the brand name - and I plugged it into a 12" portable TV made by Trophy.
My gramps has some of the really old TVs like from when they were first released to the public. The nice wood grain ones that look like little coffee tables and this video just reminded me of it.
