Addendum to yesterday's post about illegal colors and signal levels: one way to see both is to get a Sega Dreamcast and CRT TV, if you can still find them, and look at some of those games.
The Dreamcast intentionally allowed emitting out-of-spec signal levels. I don't remember offhand how far out of spec, but there was an official guideline to stay inside nominal levels "except for special effects".
Dreamcast was also the first PAL console I recall supporting 60Hz PAL signals.
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