A lot of home hardware had RGB as well. The variety of hardware in general was pretty high, to the point that many tricks pixel artists employed only worked on

A lot of home hardware had RGB as well. The variety of hardware in general was pretty high, to the point that many tricks pixel artists employed only worked on very specific hardware combinations. Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-G02cjXpZ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-G02cjXpZ0 Notice the glass tubes at 0:47+. On the composite output, they look smooth and have that rainbow effect. This only worked on first revisions of the Megadrive; later ones had better quality output, mostly losing the effect. The same applied to displays - crispness, scanlines, bleeding etc were all different.