Someone ran MW3 on a CRT screen, and now I wish it was 2005 again

The ghost of gaming past periodically visits the world through the medium of imaginative players, such as Twitter user Ghost Wacke, who managed to run 2023’s MW3 on a CRT television set. His Nov. 25 video shows MW3 running smoothly on the CRT TV, and it made me wish it was 2005 again.

The video posted on Twitter sees the user hooking up the CRT to his trusted, new, and shiny PS5 console with an adapter. He explains that it’s a relatively easy thing to do, especially with consoles, which simultaneously made me happy and sad. The result of his finicking with connecting the RCA cable with the adapter and then the console is a stunningly smooth output of Activision’s latest rendition of CoD, albeit with that iconic eye-popping radiating screen brightness.