At the time it felt a lot superior to the alternatives. The low saturation wasn't so much of an issue when TVs tended to have a dial to adjust that. Most of t

At the time it felt a lot superior to the alternatives. The low saturation wasn't so much of an issue when TVs tended to have a dial to adjust that. Most of the contemporaries used primary colour palettes which were definitely more vibrant but lacked any hues that worked together. The Atari systems were better when it came to producing colours but had their own quirks. If you wanted a horizontal gradient, Atari was king. It was a time of extremely rapid development. The changes from 1978 to 1988 make the changes 2008 to 2018 look positively stagnant.