VESA
Hardware entity
Variety of computer display standards introduced as extensions to VGA by VESA (starting with SVGA), allowing true color displays (24 bit and 32 bit) and unbound resolutions, including the VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) which is used to enable these.
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games
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Alternate names: VBE, SVGA, UVGA, xVGA, Super Video Graphics Array, Ultra Video Graphics Array
DOS 1997
DOS 1996
DOS 1994
DOS 1994
DOS 1994
W31 1995
DOS 1993
DOS 1993
DOS 1994
DOS 1995
DOS 2005-09-09
DOS 1993
This is the modern standard and everything usually falls back to most basic VGA or SVGA mode, so games for computer platforms that are newer than this standard should probably not be tagged. DOS games and other similarly old platforms benefit from this however where this was not the standard or was added much later into the platform's life.
VESA modes are only used for fallback nowadays and thus are not actually important for video games beyond for platforms where support for them did not come out of the box.
VESA stands for Video Electronics Standards Association but is rarely if ever used in its unabbreviated form.
VESA modes are only used for fallback nowadays and thus are not actually important for video games beyond for platforms where support for them did not come out of the box.
VESA stands for Video Electronics Standards Association but is rarely if ever used in its unabbreviated form.
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Games by year
A | 1994 - VBE 2.0 |
B | 1996 - VBE/AF (accelerator functions) |
C | 1998 - VBE 3.0 |
D | 2006 - DisplayPort connector |
The first VESA video game was released in 1990.
Electronic Arts, Sierra On-Line and GT Interactive published most of these games.