Pros: CRT anti-aliasing, generally smaller screen size available back in't day so higher PPI, pre-rendered backdrops look great, poor quality connection to the television hid a lot of the flaws

Cons: PSX graphical shortfalls (no perspective correction, texture aliasing, no HW anti-aliasing), poor quality connection to the television hid a lot of the detail

FFVII looks like a turd today, but it was the best turd we could push out in 1997.