1989 Nickelodeon Total Panic preview of 16-Bit systems including Turbo!

[esteban]

nat, at least you got cable in the early 90's!

I was using aerial antenna for the entire time I lived with my parents.

When I moved to California, I had to climb on top of my roof and dismantle an aerial antenna (I felt sad, as if it were the end of an era...even though I never personally used the aerial antenna in California).

Rich folks had motorized aerial antennas, back in the day. A little dial on a small box inside your home controlled a motorized antenna to achieve maximum reception. I never had this, but I still think it is kool.

[Necromancer]

My parents never had cable and neither have I; I don't need 1200 channels of worthless shit - 12 channels are enough.

[SuperGrafx16]

I got cable in the mid 1980s. Also our first color television, a 13 inch Sony Trinitron monitor. Great for playing some TurboGrafx-16 games on ^__^

[nat]

Yeah, we didn't even get a color TV until 1985 or so.

[Tatsujin]

We ha cable our whole life, but that was just the standard in swissle back then I think. Only folks out in the deep country (aka pampa) had these antennas mounted on the roofs. We also had some pay TV stuff I remember, but only because my uncle worked for such a company and we got a rceiver device (pure and cheap analogue decoder) for free for a very long time, until they had changed everything to digital broadcasting.
Also our TV sets had standard RGB (via euro scarts) and S-Vid input since very early. So most import consoles were already RGB moded when purchasing them.

[xelement5x]

From the first video, the lady talking about why would you put a whole map of the game in the magazine?  And the guy answers: "the games are so complex, so difficult these days"

It seems like some things never change

[esteban]

Yeah, we didn't even get a color TV until 1985 or so.

1987 for us! A glorious 19" TV with a remote control!

[Father5&JoshUnion]

'up next is bananaman'

classic.