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> I also agree that modern, blocky pixel art often is a kind of misdirected, anachronistic nostalgia. Pixel art, for me, is the Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advan

> I also agree that modern, blocky pixel art often is a kind of misdirected, anachronistic nostalgia. Pixel art, for me, is the Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advanced which I never played on a CRDT.

opan 5d ago
Same thought here, GBA was the peak of mainstream 2D graphics for me. I look at games from that era and often times they have aged well, they still look ideal to me.
- ymolodtsov 5d ago
  I enjoyed playing GBA game the most on my Anbernic. They do feel good to play in the way the previous generation just doesn't.
latexr 5d ago
Hear hear. I’m so tired of this pixel art elitism (exhibited in the article) which asserts with certainty that our fondness for pixel art comes from viewing it distorted on CRTs. The Game Boy was insanely popular, is part of many people’s introduction to and fondness for pixel art, and it had an LCD screen.
- vardump 5d ago
  This is not elitism, it's about historical accuracy. This is how many remember the games of their youth.
  - spankibalt 5d ago
    And not just that; invoking the Game Boy here is not the closer many people think it is, given that its STN LCD screen was fuzzy (e. g. ghosting) yet also had this distinct, subdued lo-fi glow, almost like looking through a zoetrope. Somewhat analog to lo-fi CRT setups.
    - mrob 5d ago
      The ghosting on the original Game Boy did not blend pixel boundaries and did not affect static images. It looks nothing like a CRT and nothing like a zoetrope (which has sharp images and reasonably low sample-and-hold blur because of the strobing).
      - spankibalt 5d ago
        > The ghosting on the original Game Boy did not blend pixel boundaries and did not affect static images. It still gives you, especially when factoring in the condition of the STN screen, a "fuzzy" picture and with its own lo-fi glow, analogous to a CRT setup. Which was the point. I owned a brick, from 1992 onwards. > It looks nothing [...] like a zoetrope (which has sharp images and reasonably low sample-and-hold blur because of the strobing). "Sharp images" is certainly not the experience I had when looking through 'em at country fairs back in East Germany in the mid-to-late 80s.
  - latexr 5d ago
    > elitism I was being facetious with that word, I don’t believe it literally. > it's about historical accuracy. Historical accuracy means recognising not everyone had the same experience. Yes, many remember pixel art from CRTs, but many also remember it from LCDs. My criticism if of the idea that liking sharp pixels is “a kind of misdirected, anachronistic nostalgia”, a misremembering of the CRT days. Even before we consider LCDs, it is reductive to link this to nostalgia—pixel art is an art form that stands on its own.
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> I also agree that modern, blocky pixel art often is a kind of misdirected, anachronistic nostalgia. Pixel art, for me, is the Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advanced which I never played on a CRDT.

opan 5d ago

Same thought here, GBA was the peak of mainstream 2D graphics for me. I look at games from that era and often times they have aged well, they still look ideal to me.

ymolodtsov 5d ago
I enjoyed playing GBA game the most on my Anbernic. They do feel good to play in the way the previous generation just doesn't.

latexr 5d ago

Hear hear. I’m so tired of this pixel art elitism (exhibited in the article) which asserts with certainty that our fondness for pixel art comes from viewing it distorted on CRTs. The Game Boy was insanely popular, is part of many people’s introduction to and fondness for pixel art, and it had an LCD screen.

vardump 5d ago
This is not elitism, it's about historical accuracy. This is how many remember the games of their youth.
- spankibalt 5d ago
  And not just that; invoking the Game Boy here is not the closer many people think it is, given that its STN LCD screen was fuzzy (e. g. ghosting) yet also had this distinct, subdued lo-fi glow, almost like looking through a zoetrope. Somewhat analog to lo-fi CRT setups.
  - mrob 5d ago
    The ghosting on the original Game Boy did not blend pixel boundaries and did not affect static images. It looks nothing like a CRT and nothing like a zoetrope (which has sharp images and reasonably low sample-and-hold blur because of the strobing).
    - spankibalt 5d ago
      > The ghosting on the original Game Boy did not blend pixel boundaries and did not affect static images. It still gives you, especially when factoring in the condition of the STN screen, a "fuzzy" picture and with its own lo-fi glow, analogous to a CRT setup. Which was the point. I owned a brick, from 1992 onwards. > It looks nothing [...] like a zoetrope (which has sharp images and reasonably low sample-and-hold blur because of the strobing). "Sharp images" is certainly not the experience I had when looking through 'em at country fairs back in East Germany in the mid-to-late 80s.
- latexr 5d ago
  > elitism I was being facetious with that word, I don’t believe it literally. > it's about historical accuracy. Historical accuracy means recognising not everyone had the same experience. Yes, many remember pixel art from CRTs, but many also remember it from LCDs. My criticism if of the idea that liking sharp pixels is “a kind of misdirected, anachronistic nostalgia”, a misremembering of the CRT days. Even before we consider LCDs, it is reductive to link this to nostalgia—pixel art is an art form that stands on its own.
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