Are you a retrogamer?

[HoloDust]

The_Liquid_Laser said:

HoloDust said:

Mate, you will just have to believe me on this one (or someone else around my age, who was their in early 80s and played video games at home) - RF or composite at best, on those late 70s/early 80s CRT sets looks quite different than on PVM/BVMs that part of retro community has fetish with. Are PVM/BVMs better tech? Absolutely. Is that what we were playing 8-bit video games on? Not even close.

It wasn't until I got into retro gaming, that I really understood how much that connection wire really matters.  The first time I played on an HDTV, I thought it was a huge graphical upgrade, but I had only been using composite or RF before then.  That HDMI cable was actually where most of the upgrade came from.  Once I started using RGB or component cables on older consoles I realized just how much I'd been cheating myself all of those years with a composite connection.  I played FFX with a PS2 on my PVM, and it looks amazing.  Those high resolution cutscenes that you occasionally get in the game look as good as anything I've seen on a PS3 or PS4.

Back in the late 80's and 90's, computer monitors looked so much better than console games.  But yeah, every C64 I ever saw was hooked up to a normal TV and we were all using RF connection back then.

No doubt about it - hooked via component to a better TV made a big difference vs RF/composite hooked to those late 70s/early80s TVs...I've only started using SCART with AMIGA in later part of 80s, and knew only one guy who used component for C64, also in later part of 80s.

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