… Dracula’s eyes still look like two red pixels. I guess my crt isn’t crt enough. Maybe if I smear some Vaseline all over it.
But in all seriousness, still not sure how I feel. Something seems different about the visuals, and it is nostalgic. I might try to change up my setup to use it as a second display, but I think if I had fallen for the hype and spent $100+ on one of these, I would have been very disappointed.
Today’s crt filters on modern displays is more than enough for fun effects, but I would never characterize any of this as objective improvements.
Funny enough, I was playing most of these games on emulators even back in the late 90s and early 2000s since I didn’t have a console, so the CRT computer monitor look is the ultimate in nostalgia for me, even for 8/16-bit games.