In psychology there is the “false memory” syndrome: someone can remember something that never happened that way or that happened completely differently.
Maybe you think that this also applies to old games, because if you start a Commodore 64 emulator with an old game on your PC, for example, you will notice how terribly pixelated everything looked back then. But this is a fallacy!
Sharpness isn't everything
I always like my food to be spicy... but it can't be too spicy, otherwise all flavor will be lost: your mouth will only burn, but there will no longer be any enjoyment of the taste. It's very similar with old video games: You still have the "taste" of the old game in your head, but the sharpness is destroying it - the sharpness of the LCD monitor!
In fact, it's not because of false memories of the glory days when you played as a Ghostbuster on the Commodore 64 or as Batman on the Super Nintendo, but because of the super-sharp display of all the details on LCD monitors, because actually there is ( At least in terms of hardware) there is only one way to play old games properly: on a tube TV.
Why less resolution was better
You can't speak directly of a resolution with the old tube televisions on which our home computers and consoles hung, since they didn't have a pixel resolution as such.
In layman's terms: an electron gun bombarded the inside of the screen with electrons that hit a perforated plate and caused the phosphors not covered by the perforated plate to glow. This happened pixel by pixel, so quickly that the human eye perceived it as a whole image.
A standard tube television had a resolution of 576 lines, which were always rebuilt very quickly. Thanks to this technology, these televisions also had a natural “blurring” that was exploited by video game programmers.
For example, I was shocked when I played one of my favorite Super Nintendo games at the time, Starfox, on an SNES simulator: were the graphics really that pixelated?
This was one of the best graphically games on the console! No, it's actually the LCD monitor, because the graphics really look better on the old CRT TV:

Conclusion
So your memory of old video games won't deceive you: games actually looked better thanks to the picture tube technology. Good emulators also simulate this, so you don't necessarily find yourself in pixel hell if you want to play an old game on an emulator again.
In any case, there is a good reason why I actually still have my old Commodore 64 connected to a small tube television and hope that it doesn't give up the ghost any time soon.
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Item image: CRT Pixels
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