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Immerse yourself in gaming history as the Science Museum (London, UK) opens a games arcade
(www.ianvisits.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023
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It’s cool that they’re doing something like this, but if it’s for a museum, then something is lost by using LCDs instead of old tube televisions for games released prior to a certain year.
Sure they could add scanlines to emulate it, but it’s not quite the same. Plus the input latency is a problem.
It’s harder to both obtain and maintain CRTs, so for cost reasons the museum probably sent for LCDs. Exhibits sometimes have to accept compromises or they can’t happen at all.
As a retro games and tech enthusiast in the UK, it seems a lot harder to even find good CRTs here. I think British people were a lot more enthusiastic in scrapping them, perhaps because of our smaller house sizes.