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by JohnBooty 1936 days ago
That's a great example. Nobody will ever really experience that again!

   No one will ever make a limited run of 
   CRTs or vector monitors ever again, but 
   I wish they would. People would buy them. 
The prices people are paying for high-quality CRTs today are proof of that. I was lucky enough to get a sweet Sony PVM before the prices really went through the roof.

But yeah, they'll never be manufactured again. It would be such an absolutely massive undertaking.

   I also remember vector displays first-hand.. those 
   were pretty awesome. You're never going to get a 
   vector graphics experience ever on an LCD because 
   LCDs are rasterized pixels not a drawn line.
Yeah and there's also the temporal aspect -- the "smearing" of ultrabright vector dots, like your bullets in Asteroids.

I've seen folks be totally blown away when seeing something like an Asteroids cabinet in person for the first time.