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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It also had a switch to make it work on channel 4 if you, for some bizarre reason, were a weirdo and needed that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It depends where you live. In some areas, channel 3 was a TV station, and channel 4 was blank. The video game worked best when it's not competing against a TV station.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

TV was on channel 3 here, and i still used channel 3 on the rf modulators lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What if you had two consoles and needed the switch to go from one to the other?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

you piggybacked one through another. whatever you turned on would interrupt the signal and output the system in question.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I totally forgot about that! I think I remember a friend doing this with a NES and SNES.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I think I had 4 RF tuners daisy chained at one point for Atari 2600, NES, SNES, and Genesis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Two consoles wasn't really a thing back then. If you had a Nintendo you weren't really messing with anything older anymore. At least in my experience. If you wanted to switch you just changed the plugs around.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I knew some kids privileged enough to have both a SNES and a Genesis.

It wasn't impossible.

Also VCRs used the same RF switching system.

The real question was, why would you have more than one of these things on at any given time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Weirdo here. We needed it for video games (pre-1990 at least).