Carlos Rodrigues 🪣 on Nostr: C64 games have a common look to them, color-wise. This results from its limited ...

C64 games have a common look to them, color-wise. This results from its limited palette, and systems with different palettes get their own distinctive look as well.

The Mega Drive has a 512-color palette, 61 of which can be displayed at once. These can be tripled with shadow/highlight, and even further with additional trickery.

https://segaretro.org/Sega_Mega_Drive/Palettes_and_CRAM

With this number of colors, games should no longer have a natural common look, right?

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