RandomStranger wrote on 2023-01-18, 13:08:
I don't think that gate keeping is inherently bad or a problem. Gate keeping is only about preserving something to stay what it was originally meant to be instead of diluting it to be more inclusive for an audience who isn't even even interested in said thing.
Yes, though even the "to stay what it was originally meant to be" part is problematic sometimes.
There we have the RGB/SCART/pixel-perfect diehards and the scan lines aficionados, for example.
In reality, however, each platform was different.
The PC did have different video systems (CGA 15KHz with blurry screens or mono monitors, VGA with scan doubled lines, Hi-res Hercules etc), not just one in particular.
However, by contrast, the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive didn't use RGB video in practice, not even Composite.
The default video was RF. All other connections were available - but optional, non-standard.
Players had to buy these cables in a games shop, needed a real video monitor to use them.
The old TVs kids got from grandparents or older siblings often were RF only.
Games were designed to look good on RF, thus.
This is something that gets mixed up by all those preservatives -err- preservists, I'm afraid. 😉
Just because the development systems for said video games were high-end and used RGB monitors with a fine dot pitch doesn't mean that developers used them as a reference.
The game studios had their own game testers with bog standard game consoles connected to all sorts of TVs.
The refusal to check games on old TV sets with RF input is something that silently depresses me,
as someone who lived with that old tech in past times.
That's something I like emulators for, by the way.
Emulators allow the simulation of blurry NTSC or PAL video monitors:
Kega Fusion has a nice NTSC and RF filter, Vice64 has good PAL emulation.
Strictly speaking, emulators are no contradiction to real hardware, I think.
They always were being around in one form or another.
To me, emulators are fine development tools, rather. Just like assembler/disassembler, debugger or EPROM simulators. ^^
RandomStranger wrote on 2023-01-18, 13:08:
Also, the thing in the video is not gate keeping, just plain social media toxicity. Don't confuse the two things. Retro gaming/computing is very much immune to true gate keeping.
Good point. Though I also noticed some exceptions.
People got upset about a company which dared to create/sell transparent replica cases for the C64 (using the original mold).
It was/is a no go to those C64 users. They think it's a sacrilege or something, because the transparent version was a special edition/limited edition.
Makes me wonder what happens if the chassis of the holy golden C64 is being replicated eventually. 😰
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