Who here experienced the amazing 4th gen console wars ?

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SvennoJ said:

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.

Starting from the 4th gen, all the way through the entirety of the PS2/Gamecube era, I used my family's old C64 monitor to play my games because the colors were just so much better than most anything else I could use. Some friends would come over and comment about that as well. Making me smile. That monitor was only 13 inches diagonally, but it was glorious. I would still game on it, for my retro stuff, if I didn't part ways with it a few years ago. :(