Retroshowcase:oldschool game reference!

Total reviews!

Handheld: 57

16/32bit Computers: 852

8bit Computers: 416

8bit Consoles: 58

16bit Consoles: 103

32/64bit Consoles: 107

128bit Consoles: 28

OnLine members

Currently: 16

Best on 8bit micro!

International Karate + - Commodore64
Xyphoes Fantasy - AmstradCPC
Arkanoid II - AmstradCPC
Pang - AmstradCPCPlus
Wrath of the Demon - Commodore64
Night Hunter - AmstradCPC
Barbarian - AmstradCPC
Prince of Persia - SamCoupe
Lemmings - SamCoupe

Best on 16bit micro!

Turrican II - Amiga
Shadow of the Beast - Amiga
Jim Power - Amiga
Agony - Amiga
Turrican 2 - AtariST
Project X - Amiga
Super Frog - Amiga
Flashback - Amiga
Dark Seed - Amiga
Flashback - Archimedes
Warlocks - Archimedes
Cannon Fodder - Amiga
Turrican II - PC
Universe - Amiga
Hurrican - PC
Tyrian - PC
Super Stardust - AmigaAGA
Pac-Mania - X68000
Slam Tilt - AmigaAGA

Best on 8bit consoles!

Pac-Mania - MasterSystem
The NewZealand Story - MasterSystem
Pang - GX4000
Batman Return of The Joker - nes
Battletoads & Double Dragon - nes

Best on 16bit consoles!

Jim Power - snes
Donkey Kong Country - snes
Aladdin - snes
Comix Zone - Megadrive
Alien Soldier - Megadrive
Blazing Lazers - pcengine
Raiden - pcengine
Super Star Soldier - pcengine

Best on 32bit consoles!

G-Darius - psone
Super Mario 64 - n64
ISS Pro Evolution - psone
Perfect Dark - n64
Dino Crisis 2 - psone
Resident Evil 2 - psone
Metal Gear Solid - psone
Oddworld: Abe - psone
Klonoa: Door To Phantomile - psone
Medievil - psone
Nights Into Dreams - Saturn
Flashback - CDi

Total hits!

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Hardware information

PC (ms-dos based)	released in 1984 (typical)
CPU: Various processors from Intel,AMD, Cyrix, varying from 4.77Mhz (Intel 8088) to 200Mhz (Pentium MMX) and up to 1995 (available on this site) MEMORY: 640Kb to 32MB RAM (typical up to 1996) GRAPHICS: VGA standard palette has 256 colors and supports: 640x480 (16 colors or monochrome), 640x350 in 16 colors (EGA compatability mode), 320x200 (16 or 256 colors). Later models (SVGA) featured 18bit color palette (262,144-color) or 24bit (16Milion colors), various graphics chips supporting hardware acceleration mainly for 3D-based graphics routines. SOUND: 8 to 16 bit sound cards: Ad-Lib featuring Yamaha YMF262 supporting FM synthesis and (OPL3) and 12-bit digital PCM stereo, Sound Blaster and compatibles supporting Dynamic Wavetable Synthesis, 16-bit CD-quality digital audio sampling, internal memory up to 4MB audio channels varying from 8 to 64! etc. Other notable sound hardware is the release of Gravis Ultrasound with outstanding features! MEDIA/STORAGE: 3.5" internal FDD (360kb to 1.44MB), HDD from 10MB to several hundreds more (up to 1995)
IBM and compatibles personal computers (PC) mainly used as business machines, but gained a lot of the video-games market due to their expand-ability. Systems CPU vary from Intel's 8088 based CPU to 286 (8Mhz), 386 (33Mhz), 486 (133Mhz) and Pentium S MMX (200Mhz) while their graphics can come from 4-colored CGA mode to 16-color-EGA and 256-color VGA modes of low-mid and high resolution up to 1024x768 (at that time, mid 80s to mid 90s) depending on their hardware (graphics card). Also with the installation of sound hardware (sound cards) such as the 8bit Ad-Lib series and later the 8/16bit Sound Blaster (and compatibles) and others (i.e. the advanced Gravis Ultrasound!), the PCs could offer great sound capabilities as long as their sound processors is 16 bit-based (or better) with wave-synthesis capability, multi-channel output etc. Talking for video-games here, the PC graphics and sound hardware released from mid 80s to early 90s, was not capable enough to compete with Amiga and other notable 16bit home computers. Though, just after the release of 16bit of sound cards and the standardization of VGA graphics cards (instead of EGA etc) the games on PCs became comparable and even better than the competition.
The PC (ms-dos based) (default) color palette

CGA: 16-color palette (4 on-screen)

EGA: 64-color palette (16 on-screen)

VGA: 256-color palette (256 on-screen)