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SvennoJ on 30 May 2020
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Pyro as Bill said:

R1D1 doesn't look very portable to me but I was 5-10 years younger so couldn't carry as much. And let's not try to pretend that a 14" monitor of old wasn't ten times bigger than a modern 14" monitor aka a tablet.

We had a PC in the house too later maybe a 386 or 486. I think I played Populous first on the SNES then got it for PC but it didn't run very well. I know Sierra's Pinball and Pool/Snooker was one of the few games that could run and the options for making music when you bought something called a sound card were immense. I left consoles after CnC on N64/PS1 so I could play it properly and didn't go back til consoles started being more like consoles again.

Compared to the living room fish tank tv, PC monitors were pretty portable :)

My dad mostly brought Sierra adventures home from work (pirated). I grew up on Kings quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Police quest, Space Quest etc.  Played them all from the first release. We also had flight simulator, sim city, rogue, xenon, 3d pac man and more old stuff. My first 'sound card' was home made to play mods (which still stood for music sample tracks back then)

Memories!

Before that you had 90 second music clips filling an entire 3.25" floppy, big wav file playing through the pc speaker. It sort of worked! Amiga had it as well with proper sound through the tv.

I got more into consoles with the ps2. More again with ps3 and 360 and then left pc behind (mostly). I got tired of carrying the PC back and forth to play on my projector and keeping things running on PC was always a chore. Nowadays I have a gaming laptop for PC games, yet with PCs there are always so many distractions! I'm not playing a game right now....

Hynad said:

PC's were light?

Towers were hardly lighter than they are now, if at all, and those monitors were way, way heavier than those we have now. And the whole thing took more space than these days, making them much more cumbersome. Even the C64 (Keyboard, floppy disc drive and monitor + a controller if you had one) was heavier as a whole than PCs can be these days.

I really don't know where you get that they were lighter back then.

Not lighter than today, but a heck of a lot lighter than carrying the living room tv anywhere!
PC towers were solid steel cases, not light, sturdy :) Although considering how many of my HDDs gave up, not as sturdy as I handled them haha.

Conina said:

From 1993 to 1998 I had a 17''-Monitor which weighted ~20 kg / ~45 lbs, my PC tower another 20 kg. Plus a lot of cables, mouse, mousepad and keyboard.

After that I had a 21'' iiyama Vision Master Pro 501 which weighted fricking ~34 kg / 75 lbs! https://www.cnet.com/products/iiyama-vision-master-pro-501-crt-monitor-21/

It's the one on the left in this 1999 LAN photo:

Didn't stop me to carry all of it every 2 weeks to "computer club" every few weeks to a friend and once or twice per year to a LAN party.

Yep, monitors got heavy, 21" monitor wasn't fun to take anywhere. Those CRTs had great image quality though. The first LCD monitors were a step back in picture quality. No more distortion, yet also no more 'glowing' bright colors.