Jason Scott:

The phos­phor glows, the shots look like small stars float­ing across the glass, and a raster line is not to be seen. It’s an entirely dif­fer­ent experience [...]

ASCII reader phuzzphuzz:

On the orig­i­nal screen the slow fade (basi­cally an ana­log ver­sion of ‘ghost­ing’) leaves a lit­tle trail behind each shot, which being so smooth actu­ally looks bet­ter than any sim­u­lated trail you could pro­gram until some time later.

Two more games that are best on a CRT: Battlezone and Star Wars.