What I've got in mind for what I'm looking for is something with a 20" screen or less, as thin as possible, leightweight, and hopefully wall mountable.  I have a plan for building a gaming area reminescint of an old demo kiosk and I've finalized my design....  I really need to mount the tv to the wall and would like for it not to jut out too far.  I would like a crt but I don't know how thin we can get.  A 4:3 monitor could work too maybe?  I might have to settle for a normal modern flatscreen but then Duck Hunt is out...

I'm in no hurry for this btw.  I won't be able to make this set up for a couple years yet.  Just want to line up some prospects in the meantime.

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Nothing that supports light guns will be wall mountable, as far as I know.

If you cut a bigass hole it will be.  

 

that's what I was going to say   the old fashioned way

Is duck hunt really that important? What I would do is keep a small crt in the closet and bust it out when I have the itch. Otherwise just get an HDTV, with an AVS or modded NES. HDTVs are cheap these days

You can wall mount a CRT. Just not the same way as with a LCD screen. They used to be in every hospital.

I was starting to think about this after I posted.  I don't even have the game and gun at the moment, still waiting for family to sell it to me    But when they do I'll have a second console I could keep setup with my old crt in a sperate area...

So maybe I don't really need a crt...... are there any good 4:3 flat screens around?  It'll bug me if I put a regular tv in 4:3 mode and have black bars on the side forever lol

 

just get your self a sony SD crt those work pretty well.

I Thought about that. I took their idea of "wallmounting" to be similar to a flatscreen due to the way they worded the post. the ones in hospitals generally used sistered brackets to the studs in the walls due to the weight (or ceiling). Sounds like a bit more work than OP was trying to get into. 

 

Definitely requires a stud or three. I'm just saying, it's far from impossible to mount a 20" 2000s CRT TV on a sheetrock wall. Plywood, closet brackets, EZ Anchors, screws, and paint (optional).

Not a hidden VESA bracket, not MrWunderful aesthetic standards, but not difficult by any means.

Samsung made a few 4:3 computer monitors - the T213 & T214.  Both are 21".  You see them being used a lot in crappy arcade game conversions.  That's the largest 4:3 aspect ratio flat monitor that is somewhat easily found. Aside from that, you are looking at a million 19" options.
 

So I'm having a very difficult time trying to find any decent tvs for sale as google, ebay, and amazon love giving me monitors instead. Without actual part numbers I'm kind of stuck with generic searches and anything specific that pops up is pretty expensive. I'm starting to consider a monitor with the use of an av to vga adapter....

craigslist. and just search crt tv. thats how i got mine.  most of the time there really cheap or free.

Craigslist or some Goodwill/thrift stores still carry them and they are cheap there. Or if you want the thrill of the hunt go dumpster diving on trash day    I'm serious. I didn't plan on it, but I acquired the 3 I own that way. People still regularly throw them out as they replace them with flat screens. I just stopped, grabbed them, and they still work fine. If one dies, who cares, it was free and I'll just use one of the backups.

I found two at a charity thrift store type thing, paid 4 and 7 dollars for them, and they still work great. And I have my original tv from before I got my HDTV. You can never have too many  

I stopped at a nearby Salvation Army last weekend and I saw one CRT widescreen HDTV, two 32" WEGAs, a 27" Triniton, and various other 20-32" CRTs lined up along the back wall.