a lot of NES and SNES games have aged extremely well simply because the art style at the time often was attempting a cartoon/comic book esque look. They rarely WENT for realism because they knew it would be impossible
I mean there are loads of NES and SNES games that are equally replayable today as they were then. Mario Bros or Legend of Zelda for the NES could be made today and be equally as accessible. hence why so many people want these games on mobile (not that I want that), they're easy to play and get into for all ages and still look good.
now, granted, there are some 3rd/4th gen games that looked terribly but I would argue any generation has bad eggs.
the Atari gen is pretty much the only one, in my opinion, where there are virtually no games that have really lasted. Naturally that was early testing groundsd for gaming so
