but the B&W or color question is easy and definitive: Is the game PCB producing a color image natively or only monochrome? The latter is a B&W game. Period.
Ok, Thats from the technical under the hood side, and fair enough, I give you that - but another way of looking at it from a players perspective is.. do my eyes see any color ? If so, my brain and myself don't care about how it got there or the technical mumbo jumbo under the hood. I see color in my game, so.. its color from a players perspective.
Kinda like this. A photo or movie was taken/made in black and white originally. Someone then "colorized it". As the viewer or looking at the photo, the mf is in color to me. If someone tells me it originally was B&W, I'd say, "ok, thank you for the history lesson, but its color now". lol So what am I looking at ? Color ? Do I see any other color than black or white ? Then guess what, it has *became* color. Regardless how it started.
Agreed the technical term would be B&W with Color Overlay. But the color overlay just made it color, so.. yea. Don't want to leave out a ingredient just cause how the base started. Right ?
Agreed those are very interesting questions. Hard for me to answer cause, its so opinionated. Astroids, that's not a driving game for sure. More of a shooter. I qualify Space Race as a driver cause you are on a course and driving a ship. In astroids you are controlling a ship yes, but no course. I agree though, Space Race is like pong.. kinda doesn't last long. But I see the beginning of Frogger in it ! lol
Who sees the beginning of Spy Hunter in Wheels ? I do. Maybe its nostalgia, but I just like Sprint 2 better than them all. Night Driver never did it for me. How convenient for the developers to make it night, so they don't need to make any graphics ! lol Never liked that.
Fire Truck is just so innovative of a idea as far as it being a fire truck and the rear part of your vehicle having a effect on the inertia of the driving. Its just cool man.
Death Race ? ehh, sorry, (truly cause I know I'll be bashed") but I never liked it enough to keep playing it like Sprint 2. Gran Trak - dude that's just Grand Daddy ! So it holds respect.
Monte Carlo.. well, of course its cool. But its so colorized (and '79 I believe) I don't feel fair to compare to the others. If you gonna do that, get a Pole Position and call it quits ! haha
SuperBug just had a cooler feel to it than GranTrak.. The sound and stuff was cool and I think got people going cause it was a little different than the others. he perceptive was also closer up overhead, which I believe made it feel different than the others again. Being a yellow bug helped ! And the little graphics to the side of the track was cool at times. GranTrack didn't have that. Gran Trak needs to be compared to Sprint 2, as they are similar.