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.
While the Sonic waterfall is probably deliberate, I find it more likely that people have always preferred the highest resolution and the crispest graphics they can afford.
>I remember the game magazines had advertistements in the back for VGA adapters for the SNES.
Those adapters have converter chips in them and are a very recent thing. One from your link was released in 2025, a full year after last gaming magazine stopped being printed, and 30 years since last magazine covering SNES shut down.
snes rgb cables on the other hand were always available, and even bundled with console in certain markets.
r3trohack3r · · focus · HN ↗
Pixel art, for me, is the Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advanced which I never played on a CRDT.
latexr · · focus · HN ↗
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.
RunSet · · focus · HN ↗
My neighbor had one and we all agreed that the sharper picture looked better.
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While the Sonic waterfall is probably deliberate, I find it more likely that people have always preferred the highest resolution and the crispest graphics they can afford.
rasz · · focus · HN ↗
Those adapters have converter chips in them and are a very recent thing. One from your link was released in 2025, a full year after last gaming magazine stopped being printed, and 30 years since last magazine covering SNES shut down.
snes rgb cables on the other hand were always available, and even bundled with console in certain markets.