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Light gun market research question.
daywane:
I just thought of it.
It might be under LCD? I am not sure.
My sister and also my younger brother both have new flat panel TVs
$1,000 + type TVs
these have a PC connection on them (VGA)
LARGE TVs (HD)
so vertical and horizontal games would be fine on same TVs
They won't let me hook up a PC to check them out :dunno
That's what I would like.
all my Mame gun games.
all my console EMU gun games.
SNAP :o
I said I would never spend that kind of $$$$ on any stupid TV.
This could change my mind
ahofle:
I guess I am in the minority here. 3-4 feet minimum from a 27" screen is too much IMO. Isn't that what those cheap LCD Topguns require? Back when I had the ActLabs light guns, I'd say people would generally hold the gun between 1-2 feet from the screen. I just 'tried' it with a measuring tape and at 3-4 feet back you have to actually walk forward to press the start button to continue the game and then walk back again. Remember, your extended arm is around an additional 2 feet, so you have to add that to the minimum gun distance. So at 3-4 feet you have to stand 5-6 feet away from the cabinet!
I could see it working for a showcase style cabinet, but not for a standup. Just my 2 cents.
DJ_Izumi:
A lot of arcade gun cabs however force you to be farther from the screen.
DX Time Crisis cabs for example use a podium:
http://www.paulsarcade.com/images/Time3.jpg
Others in uprights use a mirror inside the cab with the tube on it's back pointing 'up' and the mirror reflecting the image, resulting in the image appearing to be on the 'back' of the cabinate wall.
http://www.ihsjapanese.net/tc3.jpg
This is a different style of TC3 cab but I've seen the mirrors used on Point Blank, A51Site4 and othercabs. So you can't actually get the gun within 2 feet of the screen if you tried basicly.
ahofle:
Exactly my point. Neither of the two example cabinets you listed are typical of the home arcade cabinet consumer that Andy is presumably targeting for this product. I already mentioned the distance would be fine for a showcase style cabinet (your first example). How many BYOAC people put mirrors in their cabinet display design to allow a greater lightgun distance? Also look how close that guy's gun is to the screen in the 2nd pic (probably 1-2 feet at the most).
DJ_Izumi:
--- Quote from: ahofle on April 09, 2009, 02:02:59 pm ---Also look how close that guy's gun is to the screen in the 2nd pic (probably 1-2 feet at the most).
--- End quote ---
My point was that, from a strickly DIFFICULTY point of view, 3feet or so at the least seem to be the standard. Even with him 2 feet from the plexi of that cab, the total distance he is from the CRT tube is at least three feet. So he's still playing with 'Three feet of difficulty'.
As you only complained about the start button being reached, I'm just saying there are ways around that. Of course, including, adding a start button to the gun. :D
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