/vr/ - Retro Games

You will never play on a 30 year old Neo Geo Neo 50 with a faded screen in a Japanese hotel hot spring located in the upper mountains.

>>10523476
Good choice. The only major reason this machine isn't seen more often is because the rear projection screen was a pain in the Butt to maintain for arcade owners. You have to replace the bulbs periodically. And sometimes the screens were poorly designed and leaked coolant/fluid from the projector onto the electronics sitting beneath the screen. Which ended up killing it or damaging it. But back in the 90s there was only two choices: CRTs or rear projection cabs if you wanted a big screen.

>>9879114
>where did the variation go?

The reason why arcades looks different have variation before 2006 is because of the CRT monitor. The CRT screen takes needs a lot of space inside the cabinet.

So every manufacturer had to come up with creative ways to make a large box look attractive to players.

Or if you used projection screens, the manufacturer could make super huge "Deluxe screens" and charge more to arcades for buying them.

Once flat-screens came, every other type of screen died out. LCD flat-screens won. There was much less need to worry about big arcade boxes looking cool. The cabinets could be thinner, and the screens could literally just be a flat screen TV. Or a flat screen TV with a little bit of design around the edges to hide the TV logos.