School me on medium res monitors please!

nanoryan

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Hi Guys,

Thinking about picking up a gutted Championship Sprint cabinet as a project and wondering about 19" medium res monitors - been collecting for many years and never owned a medium res game.

What were the most common 19" manufacturers and models? Are they really that hard to find?

Thanks for any info you can provide!
 
Not impossible to find one, but it would be easier to just find a beat champ sprint that has a monitor rather than trying to find one on its own...
 
I have the WG 19K4915 in my Toobin', FWIW. They're not impossible to find-one was on ebay not too long ago, but I'm always a bit nervous about shipping monitors.
 
It may take waiting a few months to find one on ebay.

It won't be cheap either (not that anything on ebay is).

You could look into LCD choices to hold you over until you find one.

I would skip it until you find a cab with one. (Even not working as long as it isn't a burnt up yoke.)

Unless you have a local collector group to help get you into one. That was how I got my med res monitors. (Mostly 25" but 1 19" too. The other 19"s I have came from ebay.)
 
if you cab is nice, then save it until you find complete one that needs a good body. but piecing one together is not easy. figure:
$400-$500+ for the pcb ( hard to guess with cracked slapstick an people wanting paperboy)
$100 for wiring
$100+ for the control panel
$75 for the pedals
$400-$600+ for the monitor.

narc also uses a medium rez monitor. so does apb, toobin, and most super sprints. But apb and super sprint will burn the monitor in a very bad way.

I would look into multisync computer monitors or cram a 25" medium rez into it (25" medium rez is easy to find). I would go that route over a lcd.
 
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Thanks guys! Think I might wait for a cab with more parts.

Interesting idea with the Multisync Computer Monitor - wonder if I can mount one to a 19" arcade-style frame?

So.. below is the list .. any others? I am going to start keeping an eye out.

19" Monitors
WG 19K4915
WG K7000 - anybody know the specific models?
Atari Disco - anybody know the specific models?
Newer Dual Res

19" Games
Championship Sprint
Paperboy
Super Sprint
A.P.B.
Narc
Toobin'
 
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