This popped up like a month back on my YouTube but I put off watching it as I wasn't familiar with the channel and there was plenty else I needed to catch up on. Then it got plastered all over the place so I kinda was almost refusing to watch it because of how overhyped stuff gets these days, but went ahead and did when it popped back up on my secondary YouTube channel, and glad I did. It was a neat story, and good for him in lucking into what was effectively a digital myth/unicorn, and the story itself was a nice quaint "its a small world" thing that highlights one of the optimistic aspects of the Internet, shrinking the world and connecting people in positive way. I did like him having a bit of fun with the typical internet assholes griping about the retron or whatever emulation console.
And while teenage me would have definitely geeked out playing Melee on that, but now, I'd take an OLED over this every single time, even without a scaler and on a panel of similar size. I have zero nostalgia for CRTs though, and very thankful I never actually went through with the attempt to get nerd cred buying one of those Sony 24" Widescreen CRT monitors or PVM. I'm extra baffled at some of the people that act like modern displays are junk in comparison (CRTs have always given me eyestrain). Most of the things that people like to point to have been taken care of (or could be improved with a rework). Which, I do dig how creative they got in utilizing aspects of the technology to overcome its limitations (stuff like dithering), and wish there was an effort to make efficient use of resources again (arguably does happen with all the effort to optimize games for the Steamdeck and somewhat the Switch).
Oh, one other thing I really liked about his story was, there was never a "villain" or some asshole fucking things up (aka Billy Mitchell's bullshit in King of Kong - which the reality we've found out after makes that even more insufferable). It was cute when he was like "where would I even store this?" and him thinking his parents would be like "WTF you wanna spend how much to buy and ship a 400lb TV from Japan?!?" and instead it was just like "of course, why not use our garage?" and the game developer guy being the right guy at the right place at the right time, and the owner of the place happy that it went to someone that would really enjoy it (and that the guy saw some of the guy trying to figure out how to get it).
arstechnica.com
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