> Are you sure? I see scan lines (of the NTSC/PAL variety) when I zoom in. The electron gun is still having to hit discrete pixels on the screen. Rather than d

> Are you sure? I see scan lines (of the NTSC/PAL variety) when I zoom in. The electron gun is still having to hit discrete pixels on the screen. Rather than drawing the image line by line, it's traveling at angles to render the image. It wasn't so much that these graphics couldn't be done with the NTSC/PAL standard (although you would have an increased backlight), but it was a limitation of game hardware of the time. Defining a series of points to draw lines between required less memory than sprite-based graphics.