Best CRT TV for classic gaming?

Get an RGB monitor. You'd be spending about the same price, once you factor in cables and everything you're going to need, and, while you wouldn't be getting a 40" screen, you'll be getting a correct aspect ratio 4:3 screen, something probably more reliable (read some of the reviews of that set, my Sony RGB, which has a good 10 years on that, is still going strong,) and better picture quality. And yes, they support light guns and everything else a regular CRT does.

 
Captain Wrong said:
Get an RGB monitor. You'd be spending about the same price, once you factor in cables and everything you're going to need, and, while you wouldn't be getting a 40" screen, you'll be getting a correct aspect ratio 4:3 screen, something probably more reliable (read some of the reviews of that set, my Sony RGB, which has a good 10 years on that, is still going strong,) and better picture quality. And yes, they support light guns and everything else a regular CRT does.
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Oh, I'm definitely not planning on paying anything. I see free CRTs on Craigslist several times a day, including these, and plan on picking up one of them eventually.

It sounds like the one you're talking about isn't really a consumer model, at least not in the U.S. (I've never seen them before, even in all my days of perusing Craigslist and thrift stores). I would definitely test the TV before I load it, so whether or not it works certainly isn't an issue. Plus, the one I posted is a 4:3 aspect ratio.

What is a good rule of thumb for being able to tell whether a CRT supports light gun games? I've seen several posts saying that their Trinitrons work with light guns, and others saying that their light guns DON'T work with Trinitrons. Maybe their light guns are just broken...? :/

 
I have an magnavox 27 inch TV that I still use for most of my gaming. Works really well too. It works with light guns too. 

 
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I agree with a few posts here, don't waste your money buying a big-ass tv. Just get a moderately sized one locally and you will be fine for retro-gaming. You can't hook your new systems to these old tvs anyway because developers refuse to make the font bigger, making that tiny text only readable on 720+ resolution.

If you still want game on your HDTV that badly, I recommend buying a Frameister, but it's $400.

 
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You can only use light guns on TVs that do not have a flat screen, the tech was created with the curvature of the old tubes. Aka the bubble tv.
 
Kidorangepanda said:
You can only use light guns on TVs that do not have a flat screen, the tech was created with the curvature of the old tubes. Aka the bubble tv.
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Well light gun games work on my old 19" Trinitron, which is a flat screen. However, some people report the light gun games not working on their Trinitrons. So I'm wondering if it's actually true for some Trinitrons, or if their light guns are just broken.

But they certainly function on SOME flat screen CRTs. I'm just not sure which ones.

 
Kyle1022 said:
Well light gun games work on my old 19" Trinitron, which is a flat screen. However, some people report the light gun games not working on their Trinitrons. So I'm wondering if it's actually true for some Trinitrons, or if their light guns are just broken.

But they certainly function on SOME flat screen CRTs. I'm just not sure which ones.
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Oh word, that's awesome. I have like three CRTs that are flat screen and I can't get any light gun games work worth a crap.
 
Kidorangepanda said:
You can only use light guns on TVs that do not have a flat screen, the tech was created with the curvature of the old tubes. Aka the bubble tv.
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I have an old Trinitron and I habitually play Time Crisis games on it. As far as I know, all flat screen CRTs should work with light guns. It seems like a lot of the reports that say otherwise are taking about flat panel TVs (Plasmas, LCDs) and not flat screen CRTs.

 
Chronis said:
I have an old Trinitron and I habitually play Time Crisis games on it. As far as I know, all flat screen CRTs should work with light guns. It seems like a lot of the reports that say otherwise are taking about flat panel TVs (Plasmas, LCDs) and not flat screen CRTs.
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Yeah. I think all CRT TVs work with lightguns.

Back in the day I did need an addon to play Time Crisis on PSX but that was because I was hooking into my then super old TV with RF cables.

 
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