I worked at Best Buy and you'll be amazed at how many people couldn't figure that out. I was also a genius for showing my in-laws how to select input to display their dvd player.
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Wait, you can select it?
Unless you only had component connections then you had to plug the Yellow into the Green port.
Yes, seriously: https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3008/~/unable-to-locate-a-yellow-video-input-on-the-tv
Also, don't pick the wrong red.
If you get the hang of this, quantum chromodynamics are going to be like a walk in the park.
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Back when radio shack was there to help you figure out how to connect the thing to the other thing. The usual problem was you had the one multi-colored thing, and the thing it was supposed to connect to did not have matching colors or matching anything at all.
The only one that was hard was RGB. Any only because it had 2 reds and some cables didn't distinguish which red was which.
You have to do it without looking tho. That said, I actually found them easier than hdmi. With hdmi, even if I have it the right way I sometimes think it's the wrong way because it isn't aligned properly.
wasnt about getting the colors right (which was a challenged trying to get cables connected in tight confines..) it was about how fucking tight those sockets were, and the closer the plugs were, the tighter they were by some bizarre happenstance, so ones super tight up against eachother like that would be near impossible to shove in, especially in cramped confines that you typically had to work in.
Lol
The real struggle was explaining the input button to your parents afterwards, and how your video games did not break the TV.
I had two pieces of equipment to connect and when I matched the colors it wouldn't work. I had to swap two of the colors. I think they misprinted the colors on the unit.