I remember this being used in games on the Atari computers, but only those that were ports of Apple games and Apple’s crude graphics. By skipping horizontal pix

I remember this being used in games on the Atari computers, but only those that were ports of Apple games and Apple’s crude graphics. By skipping horizontal pixels, they’d get composite NTSC to smear the area into a color. But the Ataris had S-video outputs (in 1978!), which of course is not composite. The color resolution is too high to produce artifacts when using separated video, so those games were essentially black & white on a good monitor like the Commodore 1702 hooked up with separated Y & C signals. The Ataris were great, forward-thinking computers.