Old CRT screens did not make pixel art better

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Recently a video claimed that modern pixel artists are misguided - mimicking sprites as they appear on modern screens, instead of how pixel artists from the 80s and 90s  “intended” them to look on hazy CRT televisions.
Not exactly. Let’s discuss.
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— KingmakersGameDev (@Ian_Fisch) August 6, 2024

Cool twitter thread debunking this popular theory. The short of it is that Japanese game devs mostly developed using higher quality PC screens and they didn't worry about how the image was degraded on home TVs. They didn't even worry about the aspect ratio getting screwed up.