Very true. Even as late on as a Sega Saturn (which did support alpha blending but not between the two video chipsets) stipple blending was used (ie the fg bg fg

Very true. Even as late on as a Sega Saturn (which did support alpha blending but not between the two video chipsets) stipple blending was used (ie the fg bg fg bg etc effect you described) with the assumption that most TV sets would bleed the two layers.