Time to bust out this old gem again

Before people start falsely remembering handhelds with LCD screens like the Gameboy Advance...

And here is what some modern pixel art looks like on a CRT

Here are the original photos for anyone interested, though I’m never particularly fond of my stuff being used in these back and forth arguments. I get that it’s the nature of things though.

I think he has a point up until the end. Yes pixel art on LCDs is ugly. Artists also adjusted, in the same way they adjusted then. Its truly not rocket science.

Please stop posting this misinformation. The creators of this pixel art were NOT working on monitors that skipped every other horizontal line, the way home TVs did. CRT computer monitors did not do this. They’d also be making this art at 2x-8x magnification anyway.

id say modern pixelart is just modern pixelart, doesnt have to try to emulate anything

I still disagree since you seem to judge modern pixel art purely on it's ability to be a tribute to the past instead of acknowledging it as a whole medium of art in it's own right. Of course it is going to evolve when switching to a new format and technology.

The river city girls example was...curious.

Okay but the original Mario sprites were drawn on graph paper and the fact that Mario Paint provides a large pixel art creator debunks this. You may be nostalgic for the look but at the end of the day pixel artists have to follow the big blocky canvas and its rules

Two things that are mistakes in this video: 1) CRT's and other monitor technology varied wildly, there wasn't a "supposed to" look for OG pixel art, and 2) Modern pixel art uses different techniques and doesn't try to mimic OG pixel art - many OG techniques are actively avoided