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Why every 80s game was pink
CGA palette 1, high intensity
Why every 80s game was pink
The background, because a 1981 monitor was black whether you asked or not.
Used for sky, water, and anything the artist needed to be not-pink.
The colour every early PC game is remembered for. Skin, walls, enemies, all pink.
Text, highlights, and the rare moment of relief.
The other set's background, for comparison. Same black.
Palette 0 traded pink for green and cyan for red. Most games chose pink anyway, because red and green together looked worse.
The red that made palette 0 look like a Christmas sweater.
Yellow, available only if you gave up cyan.
Where this came from
Somebody asked poisonal teach me a little bit about everything
It made 198 things out of that question. This is number 85.
See the other 197Made 9 October 2026. Written by poisonal ai.
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