Old Games that still look good today

[Anonymous No.5492094]

Post screenshots of old games whose graphics stood the test of time, shaders to emulate crt are encouraged, pictures took of the game displayed on a trinitron makes me rock hard

[Anonymous No.5492101]

>>5492094

[Anonymous No.5492102]

>>5492101

[Anonymous No.5492114]

>>5492094

Monsters in retro era used to be so cool in concept and their pixelated execution. Those generic aliens they call demons in new DOOM games make me sad. Who do they think they're fooling?

[Anonymous No.5492116]

>>5492094
This game is awesome man. I really felt sad that we weren't able to find at least some trace of the tutor

[Anonymous No.5492124]

>>5492094
I'm glad my library had The Guardian Legend, and I got to experience it legit.

[Anonymous No.5492135]

>>5492114
http://www.land-of-kain.de/phantasystar2/enemy/enemy05.htm
I love the weird bow/alien thing going on in Phantasy Star games.

[Anonymous No.5492149]

Me too, fellow anon.

[Anonymous No.5492154]

>>5492135

Me too, fellow anon.

[Anonymous No.5492494]

>>5492094
Most old 3d games age horribly wrong, but somehow metroid prime has aged incredibly well

[Anonymous No.5492567]

>>5492094
Everything about this game still holds up especially the music.

[Anonymous No.5492583]

>>5492567
looks like shit next to goemon 2

[Anonymous No.5492694]

>>5492094
>>5492101
>>5492102
What shader/filter is this?

[Anonymous No.5492695]

>>5492094
My dad caught me playing this while I was in the forest area and he refused to believe that it could be a NES game

[Anonymous No.5492698]

>>5492494
Not retro, but still true. What a gorgeous game. Contemporaries look like absolute garbage today

[Anonymous No.5492710]

>>5492698
welp prime is about 17 yo so i guess it's retro-like maybe? How old must a game be to be considered retro?

[Anonymous No.5492734]

>>5492710
Before the big round number year, because the mods here are irrational. Dreamcast was retro in 2014, but GBA is not retro today.

The most logical cutoff, in my onion, is when games stopped being immutable, so through sixth gen.

[Anonymous No.5492739]

as far as doom likes go, exhumed is still eye pleasing with its colors and lighting

[Anonymous No.5492745]

>>5492739
3d don't tend to age well but that still looks sweet and crisp

[Anonymous No.5492754]

>>5492698
well, is a console is near the ond of it's cicle of life it's understandable for games to start looking supergorgeous as by that point programmers have figured out howmuch they can squeeze out of the hardware, for example on gamecube twilight princess was among the last games released on cube and looks good still, but prime being released so early on the life cicle of GC it's really impressive it still looks good today

[Anonymous No.5492762]

>>5492695
That's what happens with games released near EOL of a console, they look and play so blyatiful, just look at the Batman game for nes, even after playing it i still have problems myself believing it's a NES game

[Anonymous No.5492764]

>>5492494
>this game is 17 years old now
wth how does a sixth gen game still look so polished?

[Anonymous No.5492768]

>>5492694
oh boy, be ready for quite a dump asi couldn't get this without messing quite some on retroarch.

[Anonymous No.5492770]

>>5492567
I tend to disagree because it's basically a grindfest with all the money you need to collect to gain power-ups, how easy it is to lose those power-ups by getting hit once and have almost zero reach with your basic weapon. Not to mention the time limit which is completely useless in the first place because you either lost all your lives long before the timer ends or you're being stressed out because of grinding cause yeah, good luck beating the boss at the end of the stage without doing that. Oh and do I have to mention how you have to back to the beginning of the stage every time you get a game over, which resets EVERYTHING you gained? And no, passwords aren't helpful either cause if you've only got little health and a few items left you might as well save state your whole playthrough because it would basically come down to that.

If you don't care about any of that then feel free to like LotMN but I regret buying it a year ago. After people telling me how awesome the game is it let me down big time. The only thing I really like about it is the music and the fact you can play a segment of Gradius and that's it, I personally wouldn't recommend it.

[Anonymous No.5492771]

>>5492764
This is on an emulator. The polygons can be scaled to any resolution without inventing information.

[Anonymous No.5492779]

>>5492764
the staff from retrostudio literally sold their souls to the devil, some of the guys who worked on prime worked on doom 2016 and are working now on doom eternal, as i understand they are the responsibles for the map, the weapon switching system and the meat hook...

[Anonymous No.5492783]

>>5492768

[Anonymous No.5492786]

>>5492783

[Anonymous No.5492787]

>>5492768
>>5492783
>>5492786
Couldn't you just pastebin your config?

[Anonymous No.5492791]

>>5492786
lol, i know
>uses blargg ntsc filter and ntsc crt shaders
>PAL pallete

[Anonymous No.5492794]

>>5492787
i'm lazy af but i will do, i wantedto do the screenshots as proof that what you see on them i exactly what you will get with the configs, btw an easy way to do it without much hassle is load the kawase glow shader preset, eliminate one of the 2 kawase1 passes, shift all the passes before that down,put the ntsc pass as first and then add fake lottes as last pass

[Anonymous No.5492818]

>>5492787
welp, i'm an idiot and lazy but here it is https://pastebin.com/9pULCmXB

[Anonymous No.5492821]

>>5492818
Neat, thanks, just trying to save you some effort :-)

[Anonymous No.5492828]

>>5492821
thanks, btw i have no idea where the hell retroarch saves the filter and pallete info, also everytime i start retroarch i have to reset the shadowmask, scanline and warp value of fakelottes as for some stupid reson it doesn't saves that.

[Anonymous No.5492830]

>>5492779
>as i understand they are the responsibles for the map
makes sense, that map system was a brilliant fusion of how the old Doom automap felt while having the informative 3d nature of Prime

[Anonymous No.5492850]

>>5492818
Thanks! I didn't mind the screenshots but it's nice of you to post the pastebin too.

>>5492710
It's not my (our?) call, it's the board rules. People can be... overzealous.
I think anything up to 6th gen should be retro.

[Anonymous No.5492869]

DQ III

[Anonymous No.5492870]

Ninja Gaiden III

[Anonymous No.5492872]

Radia Tower

[Anonymous No.5492873]

>>5492695
Which game?

[Anonymous No.5492874]

>>5492094
Master System Sonic the Hedgehog is still the best looking, sounding and best gameplay sonic.

[Anonymous No.5492876]

Axelay

[Anonymous No.5492878]

Demon's Crest

[Anonymous No.5492920]

>>5492874
Dumb fuck

[Anonymous No.5492924]

>>5492920
Faggot

[Anonymous No.5492934]

I think Unreal aged well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqdeyseQAP4

[Anonymous No.5492938]

>>5492745
3d with 2d sprites ages better than full 3d imo

[Anonymous No.5493050]

>>5492739

If you're talking about the Sega Saturn version than yes.

[Anonymous No.5493052]

>>5492710
I think once you can't find anything from a generation in stores in its original form, it should be retro. 6th gen has been gone from chain stores and Gamestop for awhile, 7th gen is almost on the way out as well, but one thing at a time.

[Anonymous No.5493057]

>>5492938
Graphics don't age.

[Anonymous No.5493058]

>>5492710
>How old must a game be to be considered retro?
It doesn't matter how old a game or console is. The mods are autistic and really like the number 2000, so that's the cutoff year. In 30 years from now there will still be autists screeching about how 6th gen isn't retro.

[Anonymous No.5493064]

>>5493057
yes they do. pic related made kids dream in 1982 and now it doesn't

[Anonymous No.5493074]

Bahamut Lagoon (trigger warning for incels).

[Anonymous No.5493185]

>>5493064
Point out to me where the graphics changed between then and now. I'll wait.

[Anonymous No.5493205]

>>5493074
fuck, this game was so good. Why did it never see a localized release in the states?

[Anonymous No.5493385]

>>5493205
Japs be japs and muricans being dumb not caring for obscure but great jap games

[Anonymous No.5493764]

>>5492094
Sorry there is no such thing. It's all just nostalgia.

[Anonymous No.5493919]

>>5493074
>trigger warning
Get fucked.

[Anonymous No.5493921]

>>5493764
loooooooooooooooool

[Anonymous No.5494075]

>>5492770
It takes all of a minute to "grind" to get what you need. I don't see how losing your items when you die is such a big deal because once again you can get everything you need to beat the game rather quickly. You honestly sound like total shit at a fairly easy game. I've beat this game once a year since it came out though so I guess I stopped having trouble.

[Anonymous No.5494079]

>>5492583
I have to disagree. Something about the characters rub me the wrong way.

[Anonymous No.5494212]

this looks so right

[Anonymous No.5494229]

>>5493919
eat shit you baby

[Anonymous No.5494232]

>>5494212
>filters

[Anonymous No.5494252]

>>5494232
>crt shaders

[Anonymous No.5494258]

>>5493052
Gamestop still carries DS games, just saying.

[Anonymous No.5494269]

>>5492779
I never knew this!
Now I really want to give the new Doom a spin.

[Anonymous No.5494346]

>>5492870
>>5492878

No doubt.

>>5492873
>Which game?

Same as OP.

[Anonymous No.5494371]

>>5492094
Anything by SNK

[Anonymous No.5494417]

>>5492094
Perfect art direction. Of course, he's french.

[Anonymous No.5494530]

>>5494212
>>5494252
which one you using here?

[Anonymous No.5494695]

>>5494229
Triggered

[Anonymous No.5494712]

[Anonymous No.5494759]

Pretty much any 2D game that had good art direction

[Anonymous No.5494764]

>>5494759
/thread

I have 0 issues with 5th gen 3d, in fact I find plenty of low poly games charming, but quality 2d art is truly timeless.

[Anonymous No.5494801]

>>5494530
The shader config from the pastebin above

[Anonymous No.5494809]

>>5492114
they weren't pixellated on crts

[Anonymous No.5494810]

>>5494764
Some low poly do have their charm, like the original silent hill, but yeah great pixel art can be timeless

[Anonymous No.5494814]

>>5494809
Yup, they were phosphors

[Anonymous No.5495029]

Flink

[Anonymous No.5495047]

KickMaster

[Anonymous No.5495290]

>>5494809
They were, though. Go play in a real CRT. You can definitely see pixels. Anyone who thinks there's no pixellation on a CRT at all has either never used a CRT or only used a completely shitty broken CRT.

[Anonymous No.5495304]

>>5492770
get good

[Anonymous No.5495332]

Zeruda

[Anonymous No.5495612]

>>5495290
CRT doesn't have pixels, CRT has phosphors, if a device outputs pixels, the crt will take them and output to the phosphors, and the pixels wouldn't necesarily align with the phosphors.

[Anonymous No.5495627]

>>5495612
Okay, but on a CRT you can still see the colored dots/squares/rectangles that make up the image and in common conversation people refer to them as "pixels" and the image as "pixellated." Your technicalities are all well and good, just don't lose sight of what people are actually trying to communicate to one another.

[Anonymous No.5495661]

>>5495627
I know but it sometimes bother me qhen people talk about retro consoles as if they know exactly what they're talking yet totally mangle the terminology.

[Anonymous No.5495952]

>>5494801
I tried it. Why is it so red? It's fine if it's supposed to be that way, but why?

[Anonymous No.5495998]

>>5493185
The graphics don't change, people's standards change. The existence of higher fidelity graphics changes how people judge old graphics. It's old because it's no longer new

[Anonymous No.5496012]

>>5495661
Aren't the games themselves rendering in pixels? A sprite is made of colored squares (pixels) which are drawn by a CRT (not pixels). Would a drawing of a pixelated game not be "pixelated"? What about one of these? Is every game that's rendered on a pixel display pixelated? Even a modern 3D game?

[Anonymous No.5496018]

>>5492567
Thank YMO for the music in that. It's almost shameless how much they ripped them off. (I love the music in it too don't worry).

[Anonymous No.5496079]

>>5495952
It's indeed supposed to be quite red, that's because i'm emulating a really old crt which has some internal components starting to fail and overdriving the red phosphor gun, now the red phosphors are more bright, ro the point they can cause glow by themselves (glow is caused when r g and b phosphors output max bright for white color) and bleed onto other colors, the shader config is to recreate how games would look on many crts out there right now (most crts in the wild are at least a decade old right now) rather than how they would look back then on a brand new crt.

[Anonymous No.5496130]

>>5495998
It's best not to respond to the "games don't age" autist.

[Anonymous No.5496159]

[Anonymous No.5496164]

>>5496130
he's right tho, if something was good back then, it is still good

[Anonymous No.5496170]

>>5492934
>>5492494
>aged

[Anonymous No.5496303]

>>5494269
It's pretty good, but not perfect.
The action is pretty fun, but quite a lot of encounters has you locked into an arena and makes you kill all the monsters before you can progress, which feels strongly formulaic, the original games, nor Doom 3, did this kind of thing very often at all.

Melee finishers are pretty satisfying, but some find them very repetitive, the chainsaw is now basically a Automatic Melee Finisher Device, with a really cool animation, using one or more units of its fuel to let you auto-kill enemies (bigger enemies require more fuel). The game gives you enough fuel over the levels that you'll use it and have fun with it, and you can upgrade how much you can carry, and while its cool in its own way, I still can't help but miss the saw from Doom 3, which was very powerful, and had this exciting risk-reward potential, where if you were brave about it, you could take on most enemies in the game with it.
Weapons can be upgraded, generally for different alt-fires, for instance the machinegun can have either a scope (that lets you do some more damage), or it can have a micro rocket launcher battery, which lets you pelt enemies with a swarm of explosives, for the cost of common machinegun ammo, and then the shotgun can be upgraded either to fire a burst of shotgun shells, or to launch a grenade. Later weapons have more exciting upgrades, like making the rocket launcher detonate rockets on your command.

There's some decent exploration and searching for secrets, which is nice, and though a lot of the levels are steel corridor Mars bases, or outdoors Mars, they do a decent job in differentiating areas and making them look more distinct and interesting.
Considering I actually didn't really have any expectations for the game, and that apparently the development cycle was an ungodly quagmire of restarting development a dozen times, it's pretty good.
It's very well optimized too, running fine on even pretty modest computers.

[Anonymous No.5496337]

>>5496303
>Spoiler
Thanks for the tips and info, anon.
But I've already tried the demo on my shitty laptop and although it runs, I need to turn the settings all the way down for a playable 30-40 FPS.
I've also tried the ps4 version but it's just not as fun with a controlle4.

So if I want to play it it's either on laptop and it will look like ass.
Or on console where it looks decent but plays like ass.

I'll just wait untill I get a decent PC.

[Anonymous No.5497250]

Lufia 3 looks great for a gbc title.

[Anonymous No.5497316]

>>5497250
agreed. Enemy sprites are awesome

[Anonymous No.5497329]

>>5495332
Whenever I look at the Oracle games and other handheld games of the era I'm reminded of how much I dislike how most pixel art trying to emulate 8-bit artwork uses the NES's palette, which is incredibly limited and ugly compared to something like the GBC or NGPC. NES games live and die on their colour palettes and there's a huge gap between games that were careful with their colours and those that weren't, particularly later on in the lifecycle.

[Anonymous No.5497332]

>>5497329

[Anonymous No.5497379]

>>5496337
Can't you get a mouse and keyboard for the ps4?

I thought this was 2k11+8

[Anonymous No.5497427]

>>5497379
You can, but I don't know which games support it.
Doom 4 *might*, because unlike some console games today, they actually let you configure things to a decent degree (including various options for filters, as well as being able to turn them off, and some colorblind modes).

[Anonymous No.5497441]

>>5497379
>>5497427
You can get mouse and kb for ps4 but Doom for some dumb reason does not support it unless I get adapters(I did that too and guess what, they work like shit).

Fortnite supports mouse and Kb.
I hate this world.

[Anonymous No.5497457]

>>5497441
I guess they just assume that anyone who wants to play Doom with mouse would get it on PC.

[Anonymous No.5498085]

>>5497441
Get one of these, they ain't all that expensive

[Anonymous No.5498118]

>>5498085
The price wouldn't be that much of an issue.
But does it feel like a mouse and Kb on a pc?

[Anonymous No.5498161]

>>5492938
This, try Arcanum.

[Anonymous No.5498198]

>>5498085
Does this actually operate like a mouse or does it operate like a mouse mimicking an analog stick?

[Anonymous No.5498458]

>>5496079
Is there a way to make it less red?

[Anonymous No.5498480]

>>5498458
?? He made it red on purpose.

[Anonymous No.5498481]

>>5494212
Where are the scanlines?

[Anonymous No.5498486]

>>5493074
Why the trigger warning? She never does anything with guy and he fucking dies; beheaded by his own people while that bitch crys. MC on the other hand gets her and Bahamut. I swear you baka's should be put on in a prison board.

[Anonymous No.5498489]

>>5493074
What's the trigger warning about? I always meant to play that game bit still haven't got to it.

[Anonymous No.5498490]

[Anonymous No.5498494]

>>5498489
The game tries to go for an NTR ending only to screw over everyone but the MC. It's turns a bad ending into a very happy one. The game is very much worth it and I suggest you play it.

[Anonymous No.5498495]

[Anonymous No.5498501]

>>5498494
Netorare?

[Anonymous No.5498506]

>>5498501
Yes. But like I said, the game "tries to do it".

[Anonymous No.5498668]

>>5498458
Just remove the first ntsc pass or swap it for anything else, i think color mangler lets you fine tune color saturations so you can replace it with that tho

[Anonymous No.5498671]

>>5498481
It's a color triad shadowmask, it's more like a computer crt than a true ntsc tv, that shader is like trying to get best of both crt tv and crt monitors

[Anonymous No.5498789]

>>5492094
>Old Games that still look good today
here is a thing:

MOST OF OLD 2 D GAMES look great these days. 2D art don't age. Simple as that.
2D game can be shitty only if the art is not very good (the artist was a shitty one and used muddy colors or weird proportions).

[Anonymous No.5500410]

Sega's 3D arcade games

[Batowl No.5500448]

>>5493064
Whos the hotty.

[Anonymous No.5500547]

>>5500410
>Daytona 1
>meme game
>Daytona 2
>actually fantastic
raising you one

[Anonymous No.5500556]

For a western game, MI2 looks fantastic.

[Anonymous No.5500598]

>>5492762
Damn that's impressive for the NES!

[Anonymous No.5500614]

>>5492762
Little Samson looks pretty stunning too.

[Anonymous No.5500641]

>>5500598
The work they pulled on the graphics for return of the joker is just mind blowing, the way they exploited the limited color pallete, the sprite size, the quality of the animations, that game can almost fool people into thinking it's an early 16bit game if not for the sprite flicker

[Anonymous No.5500646]

>>5500641
I genuinely thought it was 16bit.

[Anonymous No.5500662]

>>5500641
>>5500646
That's Sunsoft to you, they always went the extra mile with graphics and audio, going so far as adding extra chips to their NES games to have more sound channels to use.

[Anonymous No.5500676]

The two Abe's games will always look gorgeous to me.

[Anonymous No.5501447]

i id some screenshots of batman return of the joker and dialed in a less red modification of my shader setting, now it has film noise as first pass and oh boy it really makes this thing look blyatiful.

https://pastebin.com/VpGbLgm1

[Anonymous No.5502414]

A classic

[Anonymous No.5502421]

>1982

[Anonymous No.5502574]

The games were mediocre (and the second one camera was atrocious), but Gex 3 looks really good.

[Anonymous No.5504092]

Alcahest looks nice.

[Anonymous No.5504851]

>>5504092
God it's so obvious that you only came into this thread so you could post your fucking awful filter. Particularly with the fact that you picked a segment of the game where you can't see anything even without your piece of shit shaders. You could have picked anywhere in the game and you picked the darkened room. Either play on a real CRT or grow the fuck up and stop trying to relive that fuzzy nostalgia.

Alcahest does look pretty good when you can actually see it though. The ground tiles are a bit repetitive though.

[Anonymous No.5504864]

>>5492764
Because it was a game made for a real console and not a glorified DVD player.

[Anonymous No.5504869]

>>5502574
jesus i was just playing it yesterday after yo many years, thinking about finally finishing it.

[Anonymous No.5504873]

>>5492762
Those games were released before the SNES took over the legacy of the NES, so NES games still had an inkling of effort put into them. Compare them to genuine EOL games where the developers put no effort into the games. Pic related is the very last official NES release.

[Anonymous No.5504880]

>>5504092
>filter

CRINGE

[Anonymous No.5504895]

>>5504873
Holy FUCK.

Did they just scale down and bleed out the colors on higher definition sprites or what?

[Anonymous No.5504924]

>>5504895
I was gonna say they just added the GB sprites but gave them color, but they didn't even do that.

[Anonymous No.5504941]

>>5493074
Isn't this the game that triggered HG101 so much they wrote an article how it was part of an unholy trinity of mysoginist games with she-devils and how the fantranslators were exporting singlehandedly nip jarpig muh soggy knees to the rest of the world?

I appreciate they were translated at all and we were allowed to play them, in a time before your trigger warnings and HG101's SJW'ing S.J.W. controversies.

[Anonymous No.5505057]

>>5504941
The trigger warning is that your protagonist gets cucked. That's why the game is so hated here. I didn't know anything about sjw's article, but I thought the game was the anti-waifu.

[Anonymous No.5505065]

>>5501447
>>5504092

[Anonymous No.5505072]

>>5497316
Damn that looks amazing

[Anonymous No.5505075]

>>5500448
someones granny now

[Anonymous No.5505478]

>>5504092
And what Shader is this?

[Anonymous No.5505505]

[Anonymous No.5505612]

>>5505057
The sjw article is about how that girl who does the cucking is NOT a fan favorite in japan (an understatement to say the least) and how this is misogyny.
It then attacks the fantranslators for writing "i don't like/understand this heroine" (only that much is enough) in personal blogs because "they were exporting that hate", and attacks the "misogynist" fanbase (the people who LIKE the game)

Someone at hg101 is exploring ways to use the power of the blue pill against anyone who doesn't share his netotare cuckoldry fetish.

[Anonymous No.5505725]

>>5504092
>>5504851

Just beat this game recently. Good shit.

[Anonymous No.5506289]

>>5505612
>cuckoldry
See? it triggers virgins.

[Anonymous No.5506383]

>>5506289
He sounds rational to me.

[Anonymous No.5506694]

>>5505612
I just read the article. Calling it SJW is quite a stretch, unless it's been edited since then.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/the-three-great-she-devils-of-square/

[Anonymous No.5506840]

>>5492135
>>5492154
3 is still kinda sucky but the enemy designs in that one were so mental that became entertaining. Designs in 1, 2 and 4 are really good though.

[Anonymous No.5506852]

>>5497250
I'm replaying it and while it's not perfect, it's a completely underrated game. And it also has pretty decent tunes.
I wish it had GIFT mode like in 2, but oh well.

[Anonymous No.5506903]

>>5506383
99% of the games you get the girl. In this one you only get blue balls. That's no justification to shit on the game.

[Anonymous No.5507095]

>>5496012
I think his point is that even though a game is rendered pixels, an image on a CRT TV won't be pixel perfect because the pixels seldomly line perfectly with the phosphors (which themselves aren't lined perfectly parallel, as shown by >>5495661).

[Anonymous No.5507097]

>>5501447
Damn, that looks good!

[Anonymous No.5507106]

>>5504924
Simba is different, but it's pretty clear they imported the level tiles from the GB but lost some of the color shading in the process.

[Anonymous No.5508005]

>>5494417

classic kino

[Anonymous No.5508023]

:)

[Anonymous No.5508812]

>>5492869
What console is this on?

[Anonymous No.5510301]

>>5508812
Snes

[Anonymous No.5510589]

>>5506903
Bahamut Lagoon is still a fan favorite in Japan.
A few NPCs in it are not... How are those two facts mutually exclusive?

All I see is a neckbeard crying "anyone who does not like my favorites is not a true fan", now with basedsauce wrapping. Get over it, No one cares about, or must share your shit preferences you have the gall of trying to shame others into, pathetically. In particular that netotare fetish of yours you keep bringing up as the main draw behind the game but is just a secondary game event.
If you're insecure there's healthier ways to deal with it than to yell about the incel insurrection conspiring against you and the game, or going after the fantranslator for not doing a "good enough job" of dressing it up as a "subversive, good story".

[Anonymous No.5510706]

>>5510301
Thanks, looks like I need to get this game then!

[Anonymous No.5510730]

>>5497332
NGPC has aged so well in my opinion. Just real clean and colorful sprites and great backgrounds. Superb animations that are simple but because those sprites are big and clean they express a lot of the action going on.
The style is rarely imitated and even more rarely imitated correctly. When you think this device has over 20 hours of battery life on two AAs, a micro switched stick and pressure sensitive buttons it was truly a masterpiece device that came out a year or two too late.

[Anonymous No.5510775]

>>5496012
>Aren't the games themselves rendering in pixels? A sprite is made of colored squares (pixels) which are drawn by a CRT (not pixels).
Yes, but pixels aren't colored squares, they're just the smallest controllable picture elements. While they *can* be represented as perfect squares, there's nothing that mandates that raster images comprised of pixels have to be done that way, or that square pixels is the only way to have something be "pixel-perfect".
Instead of tightly arranged square pixels, you could just as well have evenly spaced round pixels with noticable gaps between them and it would be just as pixel-perfect a representation as one made with square pixels.

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And SNES doesn't even have square pixels, due to the internal resolution the snes process rectangular pixels.