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I completely agree but the N64 and GC, at least in their European incarnations, look like crap on modern TVs. They were probably fuzzy back in the day too, but the Dreamcast looks a lot better than a GC and they're from a similar epoch. The last under-the-TV console I bought was a Gamecube BTW, so it isn't like I'm spoilt by XBox or anything.

The Euro N64 didn't have RGB and (obviously) neither have HDMI and building the right cable for the GC is... non trivial. Since they were from the 4:3 era you either get a stretched screen or black borders. On the GC it seems to force my TV to stretch all the time even if I set it to 4:3, which is a bit annoying. At least the Game Boy, DS, etc have their own screens built in so this is less of a problem.



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