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I played the hell out of a game that only had 4 colors. 'Pyromaniac' and the filename was pyroman.exe (It looked a lot like sleuth, the first game on the list
by BMc2020 4y ago
I played the hell out of a game that only had 4 colors. 'Pyromaniac' and the filename was pyroman.exe (It looked a lot like sleuth, the first game on the list). You had to go through buildings trailing a burning fuse that you couldn't let catch you, and also there were cans of gas that would explode across several walls. Higher levels required quite a bit of strategy, intentionally starting fires so they would burn out by the time you needed to go through the area, strategic placing of gas cans etc.
Make it to the final level you get to burn down the Kremlin. Good times.
Please don't tell the parole board, I'm still doing 8 to 20 for arson.
- loloquwowndueo 4y agoAll games had only 4 Colors in cga
- andsoitis 4y agoBut some of us had EGA or VGA in that era. In fact, some of the screenshots in the article shows more than 4 colors.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoComposite CGA is 16 color.
- indymike 4y agoComposite CGA was Tandy only. Can confirm stock CGA was 4 color, 4 different palettes which allowed IBM to claim "16 colors*"
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoNope. All CGA cards supported a composite 16-color mode with reduced horizontal resolution. You're thinking of the PCJr and Tandy specific modes which support higher resolutions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter#With_a_composite_color_monitor/television_set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter#With_a_...
- indymike 4y agoThat’s text mode with graphics characters.
- eesmith 4y agoYou might like Pyro II v2.2 - https://archive.org/details/PyroV2.2.3SW1991MichaelOBrienAction https://archive.org/details/PyroV2.2.3SW1991MichaelOBrienAct...
- BMc2020 4y agoThis is the game, thank you for finding it for me. I mis-remembered the name. I'll give it a go again when I get home.
- ethbr0 4y agoThere's a certain time period where I feel like everyone remembered their games by the DOS executable name. piratesg.exe