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absolutely fascinated by this raw pixels on an emulator vs how the game was actually supposed to look on old tvs twitter

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People say that old games dont look as good as they remember

Its because they legitimately dont.

The “fuzz” from CRT monitors was something that was definitely accounted for and taken advantage of back in the day when it came to video games! While this effect is noticeable in 3D games, it’s MUCH more visible when it comes to 2D sprites:

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Just look how much more depth these simple sprites of Princess Peach and Bowser from Super Mario RPG seem to have when seen through the “dots” of a CRT TV screen!

I somehow did not know this!?!?!?

One of the clearest examples of this is using the effect for transparent waterfalls in the MegaDrive Sonic games

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My absolutely favourite example of this is with Dracula’s eyes in Castlevania

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On the one hand this is legitimately really cool and fascinating and on the other both versions still make my eyes hurt.


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