Posted by ken on 26, 2000 at 1:08 PM:
Hello all you arcade freaks (I count myself amoung you)!!! I just wanted to put my $.02 in about the monitor debate. I looked into buying an over priced WG monitor (the XGA isn't even available yet!) and I thought about using an existing arcade monitor, but I opted for a $294.00 (total price from onvia.com with free shipping) Princeton Graphics 19" SVGA monitor.
I know what some of you are saying, "I haven't seen a good cab yet that uses a PC monitor." Well, I would of agreed with you until now.
The first thing I did when the monitor came in was disassemble it. I took all the plastic off and presto, I had a WG looking arcade monitor. I then used a plastic 19" monitor bezel from a Defender cab that I have to restore, and put it to the monitor. It looks awesome!!! You can't even tell it is a regular PC monitor. Best of all, I can still do Windows stuff or anything else PC related. I will have my site up and running soon with pics. But untill then, check out stickheads.8m.com (I,m the Blue stick).