Why did it have a widescreen mode when widescreen TVs weren't even being made yet?
>>12490993Why did Saint Yuji think anyone wanted to play this self-indulgent crap nobody but himself could appreciate?
>>12490998Dang, that's awfully Faustian of you Mr. Naka. Sasuga.
>>12490993your premise is incorrect, as there certainly were widescreen TVs back then.16:9 and 21:9 rear projection TVs weren't uncommon in my area, and I lived in Bumfuckville. I don't think they were any commonly available or affordable widescreen CRTs, though.
>>12491009>silverdoubt that TV was made before 1997
>>12491009Yeah, I remember walking through a circuit city and seeing "widescreen" tvs. I asked the sales guy what's the point. he said "All home theatres are all going to be widescreen from now on, I just don't see it happening with 19" screens because they won't fill out a the space."I guess he was right on all points.
>>12491030I just grabbed the first one I saw someone playing an older game on, but I probably should have looked for one with a wooden veneer, yeah
>>12490993Yuji Naka invented widescreen.
>>12491084So I was curious if perhaps they were a think in the JDM, and it turns out that yeah, Sony had quite a few models available in the mid-'90s. They were made with widescreen satellite broadcasts and cinema enthusiasts in mind.
>>12491009>TVs weren't uncommon in my area, and I lived in BumfuckvilleHey neighbor! I grew up in ButtFuck Egypt and yeah my neighbor who I thought was rich(turns out their dad was just an auto worker) had a projection tv which we would come over and play MK2 on. Must have been mid 90s? They also had one of those huge satellite dishes that we would actually lay in.
>>12491092Widescreen CRTs were basically non-existent in the west. I grew up upper-middle class, and no one had one.
>>12491134I do recall seeing those short lived "thin" crt screens at electronic stores. Were those wide screen as well? Pretty sure they were only around for a year or so before flat-screen ate up the market. My memory could be foggy of course.
>>12491150That sounds vaguely familiar, but no one bought them. They were a shitty stopgap inbetween thing.
>>12491134Which is why I specifically mentioned the JDM. Japanese domestic market. They had them, we didn't. Converted and adjusted for inflation, they were under a grand, which is less than I expected.
>>12491163Yes, I was just adding to the point. They existed in the JDM, but not anywhere else.
>>12491163We eventually got widescreen WEGAs in the US, but that was mid-2000s
