That’s also what I thought before trying to play with those shaders. But in fact, look at this : Original : https://ibb.co/VjwKkb8 https://ibb.co/VjwKkb8 With

That’s also what I thought before trying to play with those shaders. But in fact, look at this : Original : https://ibb.co/VjwKkb8 https://ibb.co/VjwKkb8 With CRT shader : https://ibb.co/s6RgswK https://ibb.co/s6RgswK Just zoom into the details like the Mario icon, the text, the guardrails, the edges of the polygons … I know it looks blurry in the screenshot but this is totally unnoticeable once the game is in motion. More interesting pictures : https://wackoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CRT-vs-LCD.jpg https://wackoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CRT-vs-LCD.jp... https://wackoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Final-Fantasy-7.jpg https://wackoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Final-Fantasy... The point is that those games were made on CRT monitors so the CRT artifacts were in fact heavily used by the artists to render more precise images. Original post from the two last pictures : https://wackoid.com/game/10-pictures-that-show-why-crt-tvs-are-better-for-gaming/ https://wackoid.com/game/10-pictures-that-show-why-crt-tvs-a...