OK, I am gettng my taxes soon and I was all set to get a 17" LCD monitor ro replace my 17" CRT. Truth be told, I am very happy with the image quality of my CRT. I was planning on upgrading mainly for health reasons: reduced eye strain and lower emissions. I figure I spend quite a bit of time on the PC (as does my wife and son) so it might be a good idea.

My main concern at this point is the whole "native resolution" thing. The monitor I am looking at has a native resolution of 1280x1024. My understanding is that any other resolution will cause the image to distort. Now most of the games I play do not run at this resolution. Diablo II runs at 800x600 max. Most MAME games run much much lower I believe.

So, basically will these games (especially MAME) look horrible on an LCD monitor?