Students make Atari games look like Atari again

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[xg4bx]

i don't use emulaters but thats awesome. from personal experience playing atari games on an hd lcd tv, they look like ass. youve gotta play them on a big ol' crt to get the true experience.

[MagerValp]

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Edited May 1, 2009 by MagerValp

[Jess Ragan]

Let me get this straight... you WANT RF interference in your video games? I modified an Atari 2600 to add S-video, just to get away from all that ugliness. It didn't work too well, and I went straight back to playing 26K games on emulators.

[maibock]

nice article - I also enjoy playing classic games in as original form as you can..

 

Yeah emulators are cool for a quick fix, but nothing beats the actual hardware.

[user42]

There is another thread on this....

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...142886&st=0

[Zoyx]

This thread made me dig out an old polaroid pic, circa 1980 or 81. I don't miss the blurriness and scanlines. Attached is the scan of the poloroid...

[SnapCraft]

Let me get this straight... you WANT RF interference in your video games? I modified an Atari 2600 to add S-video, just to get away from all that ugliness. It didn't work too well, and I went straight back to playing 26K games on emulators.

 

Classic gaming and a CRT,

 

Like beer and pizza.

[Herbarius]

Let me get this straight... you WANT RF interference in your video games? I modified an Atari 2600 to add S-video, just to get away from all that ugliness. It didn't work too well, and I went straight back to playing 26K games on emulators.

 

No, not the RF interference. The S-video mod should get rid of RF interference COMPLETELY. However you seem to confuse the normal byproducts of CRT displays as being RF interference, too. I'd suggest next time you see anything on a CRT television (your favourite TV show maybe, or hey, an Xbox 360 game played on a CRT) move very close to the screen and examine closely what you see (I recommend a still image), this will propably eliminate your confusion.

 

In fact, the games were designed with the limitations of CRT televisions in mind, sometimes even exploiting these limitations: e.g. when you have those "flickering" sprites to have multiple sprites at once (Pac-Man being an infamous exapmle), on a CRT the flickering will appear less violent than in the emulator. Also the CRT gives large single-colored areas some fake texture.

Edited May 3, 2009 by Herbarius

[Zonie]

Nothing beats a 40" Mitsubishi CRT. Thing weighs a ton!