The worst part is, in Super Mario 3D Land, at least, if you even see the invincible leaf, it locks you out of getting all the stars on your save file. The game doesn’t even have the courtesy to tell you.

It’s really annoying when you’re dying to instant death pits so changing the difficulty wouldn’t help, though. I’m looking at you, God of War.

It’s almost like sex is a natural part of human existence and it being taboo is the bit that really fucks people up.

Unless it’s an HD one, there’s no input buffer so it’s impossible for a CRT to have more than a frame of input lag. And the console needs a frame to notice your input anyway.

There are only a few reasons I can surmise that this would be the case:

CRTs don’t add any input lag

There’s no extra latency from being connected to the internet

There’s no latency from bluetooth/wireless on the controller

Because most older games are extremely badly optimised by today’s standards. The original Metroid slows to an absolute crawl when there’s more than about 4 sprites on the screen; the dragon boss in Mega Man (2, I think) was such a laggy, slippery mess that I gave up trying to beat the game; Ocarina of Time runs at 20FPS (worse if you’re in a PAL territory like I am), and that’s one of the better playing N64 games.

I think you’re either noticing one of these extra sources of delay, or you’re blinded by nostalgia.

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