The glow of a crt warms my heart. There's a beauty to phosphor based images that nothing else replicates.

I tried playing my old games and software on modern TVs and monitors but somethig was "missing"; it didn't feel right.

Sure enough, the halo and color bleeds were leveraged by the great designers of the day. The sprites, fonts characters _require_ the "glow" to experience them as they were designed. It goes beyond simple nostalgia.

I finally broke down and bought a gorgeous Zenith Space Command TV, hacked it for various modern input sources (composite, s video, VGA and even HDMI.) It just brings the joy back that was missing.