I debated putting this here or in displays, and picked here.
I figure you guys are my best shot at getting an answer to this, which has been nagging me.
So I recently was out with family, and we stopped at one of these retro arcade places. Lots of vintage stand up arcade machines and pinball machines. Lots of them completely original hardware. But...
Some of the machines had clearly been refurbished and/or possibly were not really original machines. Regardless of if they were all original, or modern controller guts, it was definitely the original ROM images being run, and they had displays that worked real well and were very odd. They were very high contrast, appeared to do up-scaling well (not really sure if that was inherent to the display), were flat panel, glossy, and most notably appeared to be the right aspect ratio or constraining the image to the right aspect ratio while still fitting the cabinet appropriately. They also appeared to be very high refresh rate with no visible ghosting, and retained their colors from all viewing angles.
They had maybe a dozen games that were traditionally CRT setups that had been converted to this display type.
So any idea what the heck they were?
I figure you guys are my best shot at getting an answer to this, which has been nagging me.
So I recently was out with family, and we stopped at one of these retro arcade places. Lots of vintage stand up arcade machines and pinball machines. Lots of them completely original hardware. But...
Some of the machines had clearly been refurbished and/or possibly were not really original machines. Regardless of if they were all original, or modern controller guts, it was definitely the original ROM images being run, and they had displays that worked real well and were very odd. They were very high contrast, appeared to do up-scaling well (not really sure if that was inherent to the display), were flat panel, glossy, and most notably appeared to be the right aspect ratio or constraining the image to the right aspect ratio while still fitting the cabinet appropriately. They also appeared to be very high refresh rate with no visible ghosting, and retained their colors from all viewing angles.
They had maybe a dozen games that were traditionally CRT setups that had been converted to this display type.
So any idea what the heck they were?