[rasz_pl]

>This technique is very important for emulation and simulating the look of early games

Why? I dont see people emulating the look and feel of 1920 black and white film projection, or Edison sound cylinders. Its because quality was SHIT, just like CRT.

[ChrisClark]

Because the art was generated in a way to take advantage of the blurring and inaccuracies of the screen. Showing just the pure pixels takes away the transparency effects, the shading that took advantage of the blurring, etc.

[burnte]

Actually, you DO see such emulations, just look at Instagram, or people using tube amps to get fuzier sounds, listening to vinyl records, etc. It recreates the sound/image one remembers from their youth and thus helps magnify the nostalgic effect, enhancing the emotional recollection.

[justifier]

i am less convinced

i read a long time ago someone's interpretation of the history of film as being invented in reverse: starting with impressionism and developing hyper realism;

it's an overly simplistic break down with all the standard caveats but it has a certain amiable pithiness to it

look at some of these movies that are attempting higher frame rates and you'll see the audience is suddenly unimpressed by the same set tricks and computer effects that were stunning them days before in another film at lower frame rates

i remember the first time i saw an HD tv that i was truly impressed by they were playing a battle scene from film i had seen many times before, i walked by and stopped in my tracks because the wall mount appeared to be a window, the title characters were riding horses on an expanse of pasture before the battle, it was stunningly beautiful, but after some dialogue they took off running down a hill to meet another army and the camera panned back and i could very easily pick out which ten of the hundreds of charging horses were real and which were drawn in triangles, i could nearly count the triangles

very similar to the effect while watching an animated film with lush painted backdrops: you see a forest scene and you just know that one tree branch is going to break off because it was painted by the animators and the hue and stroke is just slightly off

i think efforts like the one in the article, and the one in the comment above linking the shinobi 3 video, may come prebaked into visual media

i buy a copy of iron man 3 in the year 2071 and it will display on my super pixel screen in such a way to make it appear like it is being watched on the tech it was built for, smudging those lines between organics and triangles

with the option to turn it off, then right back on again