I was very fortunate to have my own television in my room as a kid growing up. My dad was always working to provided for me and my sisters and he didn't have a lot of money so I was beyond excited when he got me a little 14inch RCA CRT to use in my room! That TV got me through so many great games and console generations like Super Metroid on SNES, Starfox64 on N64, MGS2 on PS2, and even the early days of the Xbox 360 before I got my own HDTV.
As an adult Ive gotten back into retro gaming on CRT televisions. I have acquired a Sony KV-27FS120, a Sony KV-20S30, and a Toshiba 24AF44. The Sony 27" and Toshiba 24" (both from 2004) used be dream TVs of mine growing up: the additional component and S-Video inputs on the back make older consoles look almost "brand new" and the flat panel of the screen always looked so cool and modern to me. The image on these sets are so crisp and sharp compared to the old RCA curved-screen tube TV I played on as a kid.
However....
I have found myself playing exclusively on this little Sony KV-20S30 CRT from 1996 because this is how I REMEMBER gaming on consoles as a kid! My dad didn't have the money to afford fancy new TVs in the early to mid 2000s that offered Component or S-Video inputs or even stereo sound... I used my 14" RCA via composite and I LOVED it! Something about the blurriness and hard-to-read text on this older CRT when playing PS2 games really takes me back to how I actually experienced these games as a kid, and it was the way I fell in love with gaming!
Having this old school Sony CRT to play games on again is exactly the nostalgia I was looking for! I will forever be grateful to my dad for all he did for me and my siblings when we were younger: we didn't have much growing up, but what we did have was enough because of our kickass dad!
Love ya pops!
As an adult Ive gotten back into retro gaming on CRT televisions. I have acquired a Sony KV-27FS120, a Sony KV-20S30, and a Toshiba 24AF44. The Sony 27" and Toshiba 24" (both from 2004) used be dream TVs of mine growing up: the additional component and S-Video inputs on the back make older consoles look almost "brand new" and the flat panel of the screen always looked so cool and modern to me. The image on these sets are so crisp and sharp compared to the old RCA curved-screen tube TV I played on as a kid.
However....
I have found myself playing exclusively on this little Sony KV-20S30 CRT from 1996 because this is how I REMEMBER gaming on consoles as a kid! My dad didn't have the money to afford fancy new TVs in the early to mid 2000s that offered Component or S-Video inputs or even stereo sound... I used my 14" RCA via composite and I LOVED it! Something about the blurriness and hard-to-read text on this older CRT when playing PS2 games really takes me back to how I actually experienced these games as a kid, and it was the way I fell in love with gaming!
Having this old school Sony CRT to play games on again is exactly the nostalgia I was looking for! I will forever be grateful to my dad for all he did for me and my siblings when we were younger: we didn't have much growing up, but what we did have was enough because of our kickass dad!
Love ya pops!
