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[Kriven]

I've never been a fan of the CRT/scan-line thing. I mean I get the nostalgia of it as that's how they looked back in the day. But for me, pixel perfect sharpness is always going to be preferred.

I swing back and forth on the issue, depending on the game. I definitely used to be in the pixel perfect sharpness camp, but going back to my CRT for some games reminded me of how the blurring is actually useful in giving some game objects their shape, and how a lot of low-res textures (particularly from the PSx and N64 era) were designed to take advantage of that kind of smudging to give them more definition than the have on a modern display. And then there's the matter of certain games (though this is more true for movies) take advantage of the interlacing to assist in their animations or screen scrolling (which can be quite jumpy on current televisions and monitors. Particularly for Game Boy games), and other visual effects (like Sonic the Hedgehog's shields and waterfall effects).