>>2761365Yeah and I'm fine with that. To me it's what the games always should have looked like, or what they looked like in my mind but the TV was making look worse.
The best comparison I can think of right now is that it's like watching a movie at home on VHS. I knew what Star Wars was supposed to look like because I'd seen it on the big screen. When we eventually got a copy I could watch at home, I still loved it but it didn't look anywhere near as good on a little tube screen than it did in the theater.
That's how I always thought of video games. That they looked a certain way, but that image was being distorted and blurred because it was stuck being displayed on a CRT. Even though I had never seen the way I thought it was supposed to look in my mind, I still imagined what it could be like. It was only once emulation and then HD screens came along that I got to see them that way.
I should also note that I have very sensitive eyes and unusually good vision which I think is part of the reason I've never liked CRTs. I have to be quite far across a room (much further than old console cables) before the glare doesn't hurt my eyes and the picture doesn't just look like a mass of dots.
I liked video games as a kid, but mostly stuck to gameboy. I could only play NES and whatnot for short periods of time.
