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shorthair:

I'll open this by saying I just for the first time played Golden Tee. Never golfed before, even - I don't count miniature golf - and this is a fun game. A quick aside: I think people are getting juked with such low resolution on the real game. It's way cooler in XGA. (But so are all games, regardless of era, I think. I'm not a native dude, it seems.)

In any case, I'm wondering, what is it about arcade monitors that, aside from native resolutions, makes them good at or better for these games than a PC monitor or TV (whether it be SD or HD) ?

(I'm not saying personally it looks better, I'm just curious what those who work on and design these types think.)

Fozzy The Bear:


--- Quote from: shorthair on April 20, 2007, 02:59:56 am ---In any case, I'm wondering, what is it about arcade monitors that, aside from native resolutions, makes them good at or better for these games than a PC monitor or TV (whether it be SD or HD) ?
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Absolutely nothing at all..... apart from the fact that they allow you to run games at their original resolution and blur the pixels making them look less jaged.  As you said you think they look better on a PC monitor then and arcade monitor is not what you want and you'd really hate a TV set.

Personally having had both I actually agree with you. I'm not keen on arcade monitors at 15Khz driven from a PC.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

Grinch:

I've recently changed the monitor in my cab to a TFT because the original Hantarex CRT died :(

I personally think that an arcade monitor is better because it does give the machine a more authentic look. The TFT does a good job and makes the machine a lot more useable (also doesn't weigh a ton now!). But I miss the old monitor :(

Oh and Hi everyone. I'm new! :P

dmckean:

Arcade monitors are best for 80s classics. Donkey Kong and Pac-Man can look a little cartoonish on a high resolution monitor but on an arcade monitor in their native resolution they look cool. Most everything from the early 90s on and also any Vector games will benefit from a high resolution PC monitor.

The only other reason would be size, it's hard to find 1600x1200 27" monitors, but it's easy to find arcade monitors that size. Of course now big LCDs are starting to come down in price so it might be more feasible to use them in the next few years.

NoOne=NBA=:

There is a middle ground.
I've got a 29" VGA/SVGA monitor from Happ.
It will do 640x480 and 800x600, so it can play PC games as well as MAME stuff.

I still prefer vector games on a hi-res PC monitor, and will probably build a vector cocktail for them, at some point.

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