the thing i like most about the candy cabinets are the large screen size. is there any american made arcade machines with large screens?
Of course, but most of those are racing cabinets with specialized seating/controls... the REALLY big screens are usually separate from the main cabinet. You're right, though... it's not very common for screens in "all-in-one" cabs in the U.S. to be quite as large as the ones in candy cabs.
As usual, this reminds me of something I've experienced recently. Yeah, I know...
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SUPER GAMES MUSEUM, my first MAME cab, is a cocktail model that originally had maybe a 17" horizontal CRT, and I replaced that with a vertical monitor that's around 14", still not unusual for a cocktail. My next project, FLYNN'S, is a mini-cab, so its 15" SVGA monitor doesn't really look out of place either. The really weird thing is that when I go out and play "real" arcade machines, the monitors all look too big to me and it's not as fun to play. I guess I feel like my eyes have to move too much to follow the action, and I'm more likely to lose because of that. Could this be some kind of strategy by arcade operators? For whatever reason, I'm running into a lot of "classic" machines that have like 25" to 27" monitors instead of the 19" or so they originally came with. I guess this might be down to decreased availability of smaller CRTs, or just the "bigger is better" mentality coupled with a small price difference between the "right" size and a bigger size that will still fit.
Has anybody else noticed this? Is bigger always more comfortable to play, or does anyone else feel "lost" playing classic games with very simplistic graphics on a huge monitor?
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