Although often tossed together into a singular ‘retro game’ aesthetic, the first game consoles that focused on 3D graphics like the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation featured very distin…

Although often tossed together into a singular ‘retro game’ aesthetic, the first game consoles that focused on 3D graphics like the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation featured very distinct visuals that make these different systems easy to distinguish. Yet whereas the N64 mostly suffered from a small texture buffer, the PS’s weak graphics hardware necessitated compromises that led to the highly defining jittery and wobbly PlayStation graphics. …

  • dukemirage@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    18 days ago

    Pixels on a CRT aren‘t quadratic. Light bleeds between them, and persisted between frames. That was definitely some kind of post processing you could call masking and the games of that era leaned heavily into it. Hardware and games were designed to be displayed on a CRT.

    • fallaciousBasis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      218·
      18 days ago

      You’re quadratic.

      Crts don’t have pixels. They have scan lines. They have signals. They’re analog. Not digital.

      I used to play around with this stuff. some decades ago.

      They had much different gamma ramps. Things that look dull on lcds pop on crts.