Binary color
Hardware theme
530
games
17platforms
Uses two colors exclusively with no shades in-between.
Notable people involved: William V. R. Smith, John Calhoun, Cary Torkelson, Ron Martinez and Jim Zuber
Name variations: binary colour
MAC 1986
MAC 1985
MAC 1992
MAC 1987
MAC 1986
MAC 1991
MAC 1985
MAC 1994
MAC 1994
DOS 1991-01
MAC 1992
MAC 1988
Anti-aliasing introducing some shades should not be used as a reason to omit games from this if it is the only source of it (and not overdone).
Should not really be used on systems that are incapable of anything but this.
Stippling is fairly common method of creating illusion of shades with this.
Should not really be used on systems that are incapable of anything but this.
Stippling is fairly common method of creating illusion of shades with this.
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Games by year
The first Binary color video game was released in 1975.
Mindscape, Artsci, Infocom and Brøderbund published most of these games.