[Coco] Worst game ever...

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Fri Jan 23 18:19:25 EST 2015


> On Jan 23, 2015, at 2:46 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Yes, emulator was the first time.

I can imagine what that must have been like. Before YouTube and video playthrus. "OH, so THAT'S what it's supposed to look like!"

> And on PAL, PMODE4 B/W wasn't B/W unless we turned the TV color adjust to zero. We did get a sort of artifacting but not the same as NTSC. We had no solid red and blue regions. For PAL we got vertical stripes of a dirty magenta and green. It looked crap... hence why I turned the TV color off.

Oh geez. I can hardly imagine.

> I often questioned why the Color Computer was called "Color" Computer since so many games looked like this.


It is ironic that the mode most used was the black and white mode ;-)

What mode was your first CoCo game?

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