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Color: 8 bit

Hardware theme

1301
games
13
platforms

Alternate names: 256 colors, Indexed color, Palettized color

JumpStart Toddlers (Macintosh OS Classic)
JumpStart Toddlers
MAC 1996
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (Macintosh OS Classic)
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
MAC 1991
Jan Pienkowski's Haunted House (Macintosh OS Classic)
Jan Pienkowski's Haunted House
MAC 1995
Happyweed! (Macintosh OS Classic)
Happyweed!
MAC 1993
GNU Chess (Macintosh OS Classic)
GNU Chess
MAC 1995
A Brief History of Time (Macintosh OS Classic)
A Brief History of Time
MAC 1994
Arcade America (Windows)
Arcade America
WIN 1996
Disney's Aladdin Activity Center (Macintosh OS Classic)
Disney's Aladdin Activity Center
MAC 1995
Crystal Caliburn (Macintosh OS Classic)
Crystal Caliburn
MAC 1993
Day of the Tentacle (Macintosh OS Classic)
Day of the Tentacle
MAC 1995
Master Snoopy's World Geography (Macintosh OS Classic)
Master Snoopy's World Geography
MAC 1995
Crystal Raider (Macintosh OS Classic)
Crystal Raider
MAC 1985
8 bit color was rarely used as non-indexed (332: 3 red bits, 3 green bits, 2 blue bits) direct color display as it severely limited its usefulness with no real benefits. Indexing also allows for very specific color theme usage instead of being locked to very specific colors which was a problem with CGA/EGA.

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Parent group

Color depth

Games by year

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The first Color: 8 bit video game was released in 1984.

Lasersoft, Brøderbund and The Learning Company published most of these games.

Platforms

Mac OS Classic 1018
MS-DOS 94
Win3.1 80
Windows 74
Linux 11
NeXT 7
Palm 7
Tandy VIS 3
Mac OS X 3
Tandy Coco 1
ZX Spectrum 1
WinCE 1
Mobile 1

Most common companies

Lasersoft56
Brøderbund28
The Learning Company23
Edmark22
Davidson & Associates19
Humongous Entertainment18
Sierra18
MECC18
Sierra On-Line17
Maxis13
SoftKey13
Macplay13
Electronic Arts12
Knowledge Adventure12
Brainstorm Software11