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@Ensemen The gameplay is absolutely phenomenal.

I'll correct that for you:

"In my opinion, the shot variety and career modes well and truly sucked"

This is the top spin developers. They make good games but I much prefer the arcade style of the Virtua tennis and Mario tennis games.

@Damo I remember the conversation very well - I wasn't suggesting in the slightest that you didn't know about broadcast monitors - just the BVM CRTs people use on the retro scene. As I say, you also asked the modern equivalent of these BVMs and I let you know that the X300 is the current flagship, equivalent to say the 20E1E back in the day.

I agree that CRTs are an impractical solution for a lot of people and I personally think the Super NT is a great piece of kit - but that's not really relevant to my point. I was just pointing out that Nintendo life tends to categorically state that these solutions are better than CRTs which isn't necessarily true.

Also just to say I'm also one of the oldies (mid 40's) and you can't really compare your experiences of CRTs back in the day to BVM/PVMs as they were of a much higher quality than the consumer CRTs everybody had back then.

I also totally agree that the Super NT is a fantastic modern solution that will suit a lot more people. Again, I was solely pointing out that NL tend to say these solutions are better than CRTs which isn't necessarily true & the retro gaming scene is now large enough that BVMs and other pro CRTs are quite popular.

Anyway I meant no offence whatsoever, it's just a minor point I was making and certainly is not a reflection on NL's standard in general which I personally think is very good

@Damo For sure - although admittedly that was quite a while ago now. You also asked me if there was a modern version & I pointed you towards the £30,000 X-300 flagship Sony OLED broadcast monitor.

@cleveland124 Agreed. I was just saying that they're factually incorrect. Actually although BVMs are fairly rare, the PVMs are much more common and quite big on the retro gaming scene - & I would take a good PVM over any scaling solution. In fact, for the CRT look, I would still personally prefer a decent, low-use consumer Trinitron over CRT emulation, although that's a matter of taste. Some people like the super-pixelated line doubled look which i totally respect, but looks nothing like the games did back in the day.

@GravyThief Absolutely agree. I don't think the Nintendo life guys have much experience with the high end CRT scene. I remember they said the Gamecube's HDMI solution and I think the N64's UltraHDMI were better than CRTs as well - I have both and neither look as good as my BVM or NEC XM29+ monitors with original hardware (RGB modded N64 + Gamecube via component). No scaling solution I've seen ever has. I think they just get excited about the shiny new hardware & like to say it puts everything else to shame without knowing what a truly high end CRT is. A while ago I mentioned it to Damo, one of the reviewers here, in respect his GCvideo review and he'd never heard of a BVM.

Don't get me wrong, this is a fantastic piece of kit - but give me a 1-chip SNES & a decent CRT any day.