[thaeli]

Minor point: don't have a common consumer grade TV of that era for reference. Actual "reference grade" CRTs of the time (such as the Sony PVM series) look almost as crisp as the perfect lines of modern retro-emulation.

[Sakos]

Counter-point: What's the point of having a reference CRT that doesn't reflect the everyday experience of normal consumers from that time period?

[sebular]

Since the video game developers of that era certainly had access to reference CRTs while building games, you’re experiencing something closer to how it was originally intended to be seen.

[Sakos]

They were designing the games for people with normal CRTs. So no, that's not how it was "intended to be seen".