Boy, did I ever find a treasure today.

[A Black Falcon]

Some of it looks better, but for the most part with the full clarity you finally see exactly how pixelated the old games look. The games were clearly designed to actually USE the blur to create a smoothing effect, and that sometimes tragically applies to in game text which is now clear but not as legible.

This is why most console games look so awful emulated on PCs, they aren't meant to be used on sharp monitors... they do sometimes have filters that are supposed to help, but those can sometimes make the games look too clear (all the edges smoothed, etc) and look equally wrong... but this problem will hit TVs too this generation, what with sharp, high-res HDTVs becoming more and more common... and TV consoles don't usually have filters to attempt to make things look nicer, or higher resolution modes. They may have mandatory changes (like how the Mega Man Anniversary Collection uses higher resolutions than a NES, or those filters in Metroid), but they aren't options, and there are far fewer of them than you'd find in an emulator...