Retsy Series 1 · Card 0930 · 00-HNG

The Great Monitor Lug

Bring your tower. Bring your cables.

A basement LAN party where teens hauled heavy CRT monitors and towers over to play networked games all weekend.

Card no.: 0930 of 1,280
Set: 00s Hangouts · 00-HNG
Year: 2004
Type: Weekend basement LAN party
Found at: The Nguyens' basement
Cost back then: Your own power strip

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Nostalgia9/10

Hype7/10

Weirdness6/10

Trade value6/10

The story · 2004

The story of The Great Monitor Lug

Getting there was the hardest part: a forty-pound CRT monitor in your arms, a tower in a laundry basket, and a tangle of cables in a backpack. Six desks lined the Nguyens' basement, connected by a nest of blue network cables to one blinking switch. The weekend ran on pizza, soda and hollering across the room, and nobody slept until Sunday.

Fun fact

Someone always tripped a breaker by Saturday night, and the whole basement went dark mid-match with a groan.

Six finishes

187 copies of The Great Monitor Lug exist

The Great Monitor Lug comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.

The Great Monitor Lug, Retsy card 0930 in the Base finish — **Base**100 copies · Common

The Great Monitor Lug, Retsy card 0930 in the Holo finish — **Holo**50 copies · Uncommon

The Great Monitor Lug, Retsy card 0930 in the Laser finish — **Laser**25 copies · Rare

The Great Monitor Lug, Retsy card 0930 in the Gold finish — **Gold**10 copies · Very rare

The Great Monitor Lug, Retsy card 0930 in the Super Laser finish — **Super Laser**1 copy · 1 of 1

The Great Monitor Lug, Retsy card 0930 in the Misprint finish — **Misprint**1 copy · 1 of 1

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