Retro games and CRT TVs are an inseparable pair. Old-school games are intertwined with old-school display technology, to the point where, if you're not actually playing on cathode ray tube, you're probably investing in some kind of upscaler to play on modern television. But CRTs are slowly failing, with no new replacements in production, and that's just one part of the tech apocalypse that video game preservationists and historians are having to work through.
That's one of the topics that came up at the Establishing the Standards and Practices of Game Preservation Roundtable during the Game Developers Conference 2026, attended by GamesRadar+.
