Well I bought my first pin, picking it up this weekend. Cheaper than a vewlix
I get where Jassin is coming from, CRTs are dead, sure we are doing everything we can to hold onto them, but once our generation is gone, I don’t think anyone else will want to try to keep it CRTs going, all we can do is enjoy what we can for as long as we can.
I have no problem gaming on lcd, sure the old games don’t look as great but it is what it is, gotta work with what’s available to you. And let’s face it, not everyone wants to or can deal with troubleshooting/servicing their own crt/chassis, etc.. once shops like Sharper Image, Jomac, etc...closes up shop I doubt anyone will want to open up shop to service CRTs, same for arcade pcbs, you have a few guys sprinkled around the world still doing this and even they are super difficult to accept new customers, if they do some some have a backlog of like years.
Eventually, it will all most likely have to be perfectly emulated in software or hardware, like fpga, etc....it’s the way things are going unfortunately.
So basically we are going to end up using low lag gaming monitors, OSSC type devices, emulate hardware with fpgas, etc.. to get our gaming on.
But may real arcade hardware live forever