Color: 24 bit

Hardware theme

9
games
6
platforms

Alternate names: RGB888, RGB8, 8i, True color

Apple, in an effort to hide their bits from public view, refers to 16-bit color as "thousands of colors" and 24-bit color as "millions of colors". When Macs became available with 32-bit color, it was also called "millions of colors". Leading to confusion and the joke of calling it "even more friggin colors". But Apple eventually eliminated the confusion by removing the option for users to change or view their color depth.
RGB8 can also refer to 8-bit monochrome format, but that is misleading with the inclusion of RGB color space in the name, thus RGB8 refers to RGB888 here exclusively.
Related:
* 32 bit color (same as 24 bit except has added alpha channel)

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Parent group

Color depth

Games by year

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The first Color: 24 bit video game was released in 1995.

Platforms

Windows 3
Linux 2
MS-DOS 1
OS/2 1
Mac OS Classic 1
NeXT 1