THE VIDEO SHELF · crt display and pixel art
what did you do
Noodle explores how retro pixel art was designed for CRT displays and why games look different on LCDs, with input from pixel artists and CRT researchers.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an entertaining deep dive on CRT versus LCD rendering of retro games and the case for CRT shaders.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Noodle
- Topic
- crt display and pixel art
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2025–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I've been getting more and more into retro gaming lately, and something that really made it click for me is leveraging shaders (or overlays) to simulate period-accurate displays. For a Sega Saturn, that'd be some kind of CRT. The art direction in these games are …
komali2 on Hacker News · 2025-12
In The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega SaturnInteresting article. I hope their engine gets to the point where it actually looks like CRT instead of the blocky filters we see nowadays. Here’s an entertaining video showing the difference in retro games on crt and lcd screens. It’s pretty incredible if you aren’t …
user68858788 on Hacker News · 2026-03
In Light on Glass: Why do you start making a game engine?The video I linked is taken of a CRT and is not a screenshot of an LCD. This is an excellent deep dive on the issues I spoke of: [VIDEO]
dleslie on Hacker News · 2026-05
In Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up
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