Originally Posted by
treismac
At the time of its launch, the SNES conquered my heart and made me more or less abandon my NES to the dark recesses of my closet as I played Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, and the Street Fighters. Now, however, it is the NES that I prefer. Visually, there is something about the highly pixelated graphics of the NES that charm the nostalgic hell out of me. The stylization entrances me. As graphics became increasingly more and more "realistic," they paradoxically looked less real to me, appearing as aborted simulation of reality. It was around the dawn of the first Playstation and the N64 when the superior graphics of these systems started to disenchant me with video games. The NES, even with its flickering issues that surfaced from time to time, possesses a simplistic purity that will forever endear me to the venerable old grey box.