Laundromat games, using old CRT VGA computer monitors?

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Laundromat games, using old CRT VGA computer monitors?

I decided to get out over my lunch break and stopped by a coin laundry that I remembered had some games in the past. So, for a current state of coin-op in the wild, I saw (drumroll please):

Two 60-in-1's in dynamo cabs using DELL black 21 inch CRT monitors.
A Crusin' World in nice shape, but with an identical DELL black 21 inch CRT monitor.

What the cheese? I guess reliability of these older computer CRTs is better? They didn't even try to hide them with bezels, it was sad.

I have to be honest, the 60-in-1's looked like junk on the monitors, but the Crusin' World looked great! I was going to chunk my spare computer CRT, but now I think I'll keep it.

Were they running a CGA to VGA converter card, or are most late '98 and up games outputting VGA naively? I'm a little thin on experience with these later PCBs.
 
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CRT's are free or nearly free all the time on FreeCycle / CL / rummage sales / city recycle site.

I would suspect the op is simply making a good budget choice and not investing anything more than $10 in each game to pop in an otherwise throwaway monitor.
 
The 60-in-1's have a VGA output option, but the cruisin is med-res so they have to have some kind of adapter there.

I'll bet these games are being run by that guy that's always giving monitor away because he doesn't have anyone to fix them. Our buddy cw125 has picked up a bunch of them...
 
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