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Title: [SOLVED] What aspect ratio is your typical arcade game?
Post by: TheOnlyShad0w on October 09, 2015, 07:40:59 pm

I'm going to be using a 32" LED TV place vertically in my cabinet, however I want to cover the top and bottom areas of the display since the entirety of the 16:9 TV won't be used. I was under the assumption that the tallest aspect ratio would have been 3:4 (3 across, 4 tall). Is that correct?

I'd plug everything into my monitor and just test games directly but I don't have my monitor yet and I want to get an idea of dimensions in Sketchup before building anything.

Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: What aspect ratio is your typical arcade game?
Post by: Slippyblade on October 09, 2015, 07:53:44 pm

You are correct.  Arcade games used standard CRT tubes which were a 4:3 ration.  The vertical games used the same tubes and just mounted them sideways in the cabinet.

Title: Re: What aspect ratio is your typical arcade game?
Post by: TheOnlyShad0w on October 09, 2015, 08:00:39 pm

Cool. So was that the tallest they got? Were there any games that were every taller than 4:3 in a vertical orientation? I just need to be sure before I block off part of my screen that could have been utilized.

Title: Re: What aspect ratio is your typical arcade game?
Post by: Slippyblade on October 09, 2015, 08:22:31 pm

Nothing "taller".  There were a few games that used multiple 4:3 CRT's in a horizontal layout to get a super wider display.  Darius is the poster child of doing that.

Title: Re: What aspect ratio is your typical arcade game?
Post by: TheOnlyShad0w on October 09, 2015, 08:27:10 pm

Interesting! Well I guess that's all I needed. Thanks!