/vr/ - Retro Games

No.

They aren't bad though. Properly maintained CRTs back in the day were fairly good quality.

But it'll be fine on any modern SDTV/EDTV as well. You'll still get a nostalgic crappiness because most of the noise you get when playing is from the atari's piss poor output. I don't know if grounding the actual output would help any.

The biggest thing about using older TVs is that tend to have a more comfortable aesthetic to them, especially the wood paneled ones.