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arcade & and pc montior both 19" inches is there noticible a size difference ?

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Level42:

Well if it's an orignal cab, it should be the original size. I agree abou the sizes thoug, I was so surprised when I was at Funspot and playyed all those classics, that cabs like Pac Man, Galaxian etc. were so small.But they're still the same size, it's me who's bigger now....

Another thing: in 1980, a 19" monitor was freaking large !!! Home TV's didn't have the sizes they have now, and also computer screens were tiny. I started with a very tiny B/W tv as my monitor for my Atari 600XL. Through the years, we've grown used to bigger and bigger screens....that's why a 19" seems so small today, while it was huge in 1980...

CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: tranq on January 05, 2007, 03:06:04 pm --- You'll notice original cabs were made for shorter, smaller people - hence, a cab now MUST be larger.  And so if the monitor ain't at least 25", it ain't big enough.  Anything else is just settling.
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MUST ?!?  :dizzy:

Full grown adults used to play arcade games and cabs were fine for them.

MUST ?!?  :dizzy:

Lots of full grown arcade fans play the exact same cabinets today without problem.

MUST ?!?  :dizzy:

Anything more than a 19" monitor in a classic cabinet just looks wrong.

Besides, everybody knows that it is how you use it that counts!  ::)

Cheers



tranq:

MUST.  The part of the experience that sticks in my mind is spatial.  Besides, I always felt there was a huge disparity between the themes of the games, and the side art and cab designs - the former often being too ornate, the lattter being so square and goofy (like, this is the 80s, yo, not space 1999 - with wood).  I can admire nice wood working and such, but I'm a total poly-molded-curve ---stingray---.....and even then I'm hella picky.

CheffoJeffo:

Let me see if I understand ...  the part of the experience that sticks in your mind is being dwarfed by big goofy boxes with overly ornate artwork, so your position is that cabinets today should be bigger, with poly-molded-curves and big monitors. 

OK, that is one opinion. :dizzy:

It doesn't warrant a 'MUST', even though we already know that you think you have good ideas!  :laugh2:

I, for one, (and I suspect I am not alone ... I have heard that there are actually people who restore those goofy boxes) love the clean lines of the classic cabinets. There are very few cabinets I find as beautiful as a Joust cocktail. The agressive, angular stance of Asteroids compared to the laid-back curves of Pac Man. The way a Tron cabinet draws you inside. 

You see goofy boxes ... I see someone who doesn't get it ... and there isn't anything wrong with that, so long as you leave the 'MUST' and 'Anything else is just settling' nonsense at home.

Cheers

miles2912:

CheffoJeffo - Amen and Amen. 

As far as the monitor thing is concerned.. most of the arcade monitors that are 19" are vertical.  Makes them look bigger.  A 19" PC monitor in a cab would be on the small side for me personally.  A 27" hybrid looks so nice and if you have to save up for one I highly recommend doing so.


Don

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