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Looking at the comparison, they're not great, but they definitely look better than the earlier 2013-2014 versions. By a huge margin. At least they tried to keep

Looking at the comparison, they're not great, but they definitely look better than the earlier 2013-2014 versions. By a huge margin. At least they tried to keep the style of the originals. On the note of CRT graphics in general, I have to be honest, despite growing up with these older games on CRT screens of various sizes and quality, as well as playing them on emulators on everything from crappy old computer monitors, to phone screens to laptop screens to high res monitors... I really feel like people pay way too much attention to and care far too much about tiny graphical details that don't really matter so much. You're really truly not missing much if you can't see these games on a tiny 20' flickery CRT screen. It really doesn't add anything.

tenebrisalietum 5y ago
I remember when I was very young (8, 10, 12 years old) playing video games on CRT TVs. Atari and NES. I remember the flickery-raggedy-fuzzy vertical lines of the NES. I remember all the weird vertical-hold bounces of the Atari when games were reset. I remember the minute distortions of an RF-modulator-to-screw-attached-antenna-terminal connections. There's just simply something warm and magical and comforting about those details. You're playing old games to go back in time, to simpler times--so you might as well get those minute but important details right. It's part of the magic. Ultimately nothing can really recreate being the last one to go to sleep, in the living room or bedroom with no other lights on, maybe with the TV volume really low (to the point you could hear that faint background high-pitched noise all CRTs seem to make), and only the glow of the TV lighting up the room--sitting close to it--playing Atari or NES and fully enthralled in the game without a damn care about anything else in the world. It's a time long past and gone; I miss those times.

tenebrisalietum 5y ago

I remember when I was very young (8, 10, 12 years old) playing video games on CRT TVs. Atari and NES. I remember the flickery-raggedy-fuzzy vertical lines of the NES. I remember all the weird vertical-hold bounces of the Atari when games were reset. I remember the minute distortions of an RF-modulator-to-screw-attached-antenna-terminal connections. There's just simply something warm and magical and comforting about those details. You're playing old games to go back in time, to simpler times--so you might as well get those minute but important details right. It's part of the magic. Ultimately nothing can really recreate being the last one to go to sleep, in the living room or bedroom with no other lights on, maybe with the TV volume really low (to the point you could hear that faint background high-pitched noise all CRTs seem to make), and only the glow of the TV lighting up the room--sitting close to it--playing Atari or NES and fully enthralled in the game without a damn care about anything else in the world. It's a time long past and gone; I miss those times.