Immerse yourself in gaming history as the Science Museum opens a games arcade
www.ianvisits.co.uk
A large basement space in the Science Museum now echoes to the sounds of Space Invaders to Mario Kart as the whole space has been filled with arcade and computer games.

A large basement space in the Science Museum now echoes to the sounds of Space Invaders to Mario Kart as the whole space has been filled with arcade and computer games.

  • StarServal
    4•1 year ago

    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.

    • @thehatfoxEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      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.