CRT televisions are widely regarded as the best way to play old video games, and with good reason. Retro games look and play better on CRTs, since that’s the type of display they were designed for. But what if you don’t own a CRT, don’t have the space for one, or can’t find one?
Vintage games can look terrible on new TVs, which is bad, or suffer from lag issues that will render them nigh-unplayable, which is obviously worse. But there are several ways to get those Genesis or N64 games up and running on a modern HD or even UHD TV without them looking or playing like garbage.
In this guide, we’ll go over a couple different setups to help you find the one the works best for you and your collection. We’ll be focusing mostly on games played on their original hardware—we’re skipping PC emulation, MiSTeR FPGA mini computers, and RetroPi setups for now, and ignoring the recent…
