Here’s a wonderful infographic produced by ColourLovers which shows just how far video games have come since the early days of playing Pong in black and white. We often forget quite how far video games have come, so this is a great reminder.
Here’s a wonderful infographic produced by ColourLovers which shows just how far video games have come since the early days of playing Pong in black and white. We often forget quite how far video games have come, so this is a great reminder.
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How can they miss the NES?! The Sega Master System over the NES?! THIS LIST IS NONFACTUAL
Stfu noob.
>Says someone is a noob
>Tells someone to stop talking about the NES
How are you a real gamer?
Or N64! Or Wii! Or DS/3DS! This list is a sham.
BREAKING NEWS!!! PSP WAS NEVER REAL!!!!! In fact SONY, DIED after the PS1!!! xBoxes aren’t real either… But Microsoft came out with an improved version of their original console anyway! The Nintendo Gamecube was a psychological experiment by Nintendo to see who would actually preorder a non existent item and subsequent non existent games! (very successful apparently it got me too)
LoL XD
if you look down at the orange box you can see nes and n64 nya!
NYA!!!
Look at all the colours…
First to read all of it! I think.
:>
This reminds me of Sonic Colors. *goes upstairs and plays Sonic Colors for the rest of the evening*I
2600 not mentioned at all??? it could even do color or b&w… come on.
I remember how big a deal it was when the Gameboy Color came out lol.
I love how in 1989, after 2 Atari systems already did up to 256 colours, Sega still releases a SECOND console, but with only 64 colours, lol. What the hell were they thinking?
I love how in 1994 Sony came out with a system that displayed 16.7 Million colors, Nintendo releases a console that only displays 32,000 colors two years later, lol. What the hell were THEY thinking.
Companies just do what they think is best for their console I guess. Whatever makes them a profit works!
from wikipedia:
“The Nintendo 64 has a maximum color depth of 16.8 million colors[27]”. Maybe I’ve got it wrong but I think they made a mistake.
I think what it might be is that the system could process 16 million colors but the cartridge could only produce 32,000. One of the downsides of the cartridge. However I love the fact that there were no loading times with cartridges.
I don’t even think tvs could display that many colors back then.
This. I don’t think TV’s could display more colors, so maybe it wasn’t that different in the end. Also, wasn’t N64 GRAPHICALLY (which includes color count) SUPERIOR than the PS1?? Anyways I still prefer my N64 over my PS1
Firssstttttt!!!!!11
I thought I was first
You were 2 hours late and you realized that afterwards…?
There’s no need say I fail don’t be imature
FUCK u all ill be first next time assholes don’t insult me
Some people have too much free time !
And this, class, is a classic example of a horrible crossbreeding of mental diseases, namely multiple personality disorder, and idiotic attention whore disorder.
There’s always next time. There there.
16.7 billion colours in Modern Warfare and all they can give us is dull and grey.
What they didn’t tell you is that it’s 16.7 billion shades of grey, matey
and then said the SG was better then the SNES hahah SG only have 64 color’s and SNES have 256 color’s nya!
Cool story bro.
They chose Blacks Ops over Battlefield 3 to talk about range of colors?
I played the shit out of that game, but it’s very brown looking.
Battlefield = Color
Black Ops = Darkness
Is that a pun?
they were talking about how mw3 and blops had color blind assist. and i disagree, BF3 has mainly yellows(ground), greens (foliage), and many shades of blue. which is not a bad thing, i personally liked bf3’s theme.
blops on the other hand only has a few brown colors like you said. and mw3 looks like is gonna use the same mw2 pallete.
This list is so cool
I think it’s funny how both Atari systems had the same amount of colors as the SNES did.
I love how they describe Call of Duty BO and MW3, saying that the games have a color blind assist, yet further down, they use red text on a green background, which is the most common combination of colors that color blind people cannot see. The red text practically pops off the screen for me…
Awesome infographic!
sigh… there talking about the history of colour in consoles, not how Nintendo consoles were more popular over others, fanboys…
True, but they forgot to mention the GBA, which used a lot of colors for these days on a handheld: 512 colors simultaneous in character mode and 32768 colors simultaneous in bitmap mode. It was one of the biggest things for the GBA.
ZONIK KOLORZZZZZ !!! YAAAAAY! :P
Nice trivia, buuuut….
Maybe some consoles can/could display more colors than others, but that doesn’t make them better. Sprites’ resolution/polygon count as well as sprites on screen/models on screen also count (I even think they’re more important than colors). Want an example? According to this graphic, the Atari 2600 could display many, many more colors on screen than the NES, yet the NES games looked far, far better because the NES had smoother sprites and could handle many more sprites on screen than the 2600, having better and more complex visuals than it. The same goes for 3D – N64 displayed less colors than the PS1, but on the other side had a higher polygon count and anti-aliasing which made objects look better and more realistic than the ubber-sharp, blocky PS1 objects.
Still, I didn’t mean I dislike the article, as I said first, this is some nice trivia.