As a kid I really enjoyed playing the original Nintendo NES, and wanted to recreate that gameplay experience as accurately as possible. It wasn’t necessary to use original hardware, but I wanted for the games to play, sound, look and feel as close to the original as possible. So I set up some tests to see how close I could get sans CRT, and reached a conclusion. In short, a good laptop and an emulator with proper settings is good enough – I’ll cover the details below.