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White was a statement in 2006. Nintendo shipped the Wii in a color that didn't belong in electronics at the time. Clean, quiet, almost domestic. It was a deliberate choice that said something about who the console was for. It worked. The Slim PVM in White doesn't try to disappear into the setup. It just sits there with the same confidence. 8 inches, 1024×768, 4:3, built for everything the Wii was designed to run, and everything it wasn't. Some colors age well. The next drop lands in the newsletter first sign up at retroldtech.com

Daytona USA. V-Saturn. The Victor version of the Saturn, JVC's own take on the hardware, sold exclusively in Japan. Same internals, different identity. The kind of piece that serious collectors know and everyone else walks past without recognizing. That's the point. A game designed to make you feel the arcade in your living room. Three circuits that everyone memorized without trying. The Saturn deserved better than it got. The Slim PVM PRO in Yellow wasn't chosen to match anything. It just has that energy. Drop notifications go out to the newsletter first at retroldtech.com, link in bio.

The back tells you everything you need to know. HDMI in. Audio out. 12V power. That's it. No clutter, no connectors that won't get used. The Slim PVM WIDE was designed around what actually matters, and so was everything else. The model name isn't a sticker. It's part of the shell, engraved and finished with the same texture as the rest of the piece. Because the back deserves the same attention as the front.

Some setups just make sense. Black on black. PS2 Slim underneath, Slim PVM on top, same era of industrial design, same instinct for doing a lot with very little. The finish on the Slim isn't gloss. It's a deliberate matte texture that sits differently in your hand, quieter, more considered. Ridge Racer V. That soundtrack deserves to be heard properly. The Slim PVM runs custom-designed bass reflex speakers with independent bass and treble controls, built specifically for this lineup. Turn the bass up and the techno hits the way it was meant to. Dial in the treble and every screech of a drift lands clean. Because a monitor is what you see. This is also what you touch, and what you hear.

The back of a Slim PVM PRO doesn't get photographed much. It should. Every vent, every seam, every screw placement is part of the same standard as the front. The color stops where the engineering starts, and where they meet is where the detail lives. Green was the order. This is what the light green back case looks like up close.

Not everything has to be vintage to belong here. The Slim PVM WIDE is the one for 16:9, 10.5 inches, 1920×1080, built by hand with the same standards as the rest of the lineup. It pairs as naturally with a current-gen console as it does with anything older. White on white wasn't planned. It just looked right. If you want to be the first to know when the next drop opens, the link in bio is where to start.

@fairshore Hey, thank you! :)

@Retroldtech so cool!

Every Micro PVM begins as this. Shells and bezels, laid out before assembly starts. Each color chosen by the person who ordered it, 28 options, picked at the time of order, built to that exact specification. No stock. No guessing. Every unit is already someone's before it's finished. What looks like a production run is one person working through each piece in sequence. Same process, same checks, every single time.

They’re handcrafted monitors with HDMI, VGA, and composite inputs depending on the model, so yes, you can connect old consoles directly. No built-in shaders or image processing, the monitor displays what comes in without touching the signal. For scanlines and CRT simulation a RetroTink or OSSC upscaler is the way to go, and the results on the Slim PRO especially are really solid. All details at retroldtech.com

@Retroldtech How do these monitors work? Is this like HDMI screens, or does it come with shaders that simulate old CRTs? Can you plug old systems to them?

This is where it started for a lot of us. The NES. The controller. That specific grey. There's a whole generation that learned what a screen was supposed to look like through a television that was never designed for games, and somehow it didn't matter. The Slim PVM PRO exists because that feeling deserves better hardware. 9.7 inches, 2048×1536, built by hand, tested before it leaves the workshop. The color is Brown, a custom finish that sits perfectly against dark wood, the kind of setup that doesn't need to shout. Some things are worth doing properly.

Before it becomes a monitor, it's just a frame in your hand. This is the Micro PVM bezel, the part that holds everything together and sets the proportions that make the whole piece feel right. At this stage there's no screen yet. Just the geometry, fully built. Getting this right means everything that comes after lines up the way it should. It's the kind of detail nobody sees in the final piece, which is exactly why it matters. The logo goes on last. Not for aesthetics, because it only gets placed once the unit has been fully tested and passed. It's not a brand mark. It's a sign-off.

Every Retroldtech PVM starts here. Technical drawings, a caliper, and the decision to build something that didn't exist yet. Not from a kit. Not from a supplier catalog. From scratch, dimension by dimension, tolerance by tolerance. The panel geometry, the recessed bezel depth, the control layout, none of it was accidental. Each measurement was tested, adjusted, and tested again before a single unit was assembled. This is what handcrafted actually means. Not a finish applied at the end. A standard held at every stage, before the piece ever looks like anything.

Yellow hits different. 28 color combinations available. This one doesn't need context. Slim PVM PRO and Slim PVM, both built by hand, tested at every stage of assembly before they leave the workshop. Same process, same standards, different screen geometry for different setups. The hood isn't decorative. It's there for the same reason it was on professional broadcast monitors in the 90s, to control ambient light and keep the image clean. Every detail has a reason. If you want to know when the next drop lands before anyone else, the newsletter is the place. Link in bio.

Sonic The Hedgehog on a 'Green Hill' Mini PVM 💚 #MiniPVM #Retroldtech #SonicTheHedgehog #RetrogamingSetup #CompactMonitor #GreenHill

Red just feels like Nintendo ❤️ The N64, that bright red controller, the Mini PVM… Mario 64 never looked so sharp 😍 #MiniPVM #Retroldtech #Nintendo64 #Mario64 #RedEdition #Retrogaming

Do you remember how intense world 1-1 felt the first time? Every jump was life or death 😅 Seeing it now on a red Mini PVM and the old NES still brings it all back. #MiniPVM #Retroldtech #NES #SuperMarioBros #RetrogamingFeels #CompactMonitor

Dark purple Slim PVM PRO, two-tone purple Micro PVM and the little cube that defined a whole era 💜 #RetroGaming #GameCube #PVM #MadeToPlay #PurpleVibes

About to play some Project Gotham Racing 4 (2007) on Xbox 360 on the 10.5” Slim PVM WIDE 💪😎 #Retrogaming #Xbox360 #SlimPVMWIDE #PGR4

@Joe_Gillian81 I understand as I played the arcade quite a lot before the Saturn game came out and they’re almost like 2 different games, still has some of the essence though

@Retroldtech I enjoyed it a bit but wasn't impressed at all. I said WOW playing Panzer Dragon Zwei 🔥

Daytona USA on the SEGA Saturn 💯 When you could play THAT arcade at home and it felt unreal ❤️ #Retrogaming #DaytonaUSA #SegaSaturn

@AnimeReitoNaito True, both are amazing though

@Retroldtech I love Sega Rally as well! Though, that came along much later in the systems life. :)