Sonic the hedgehog?

[fishy_fiz]

Actually Kid Chaos has about 160 colors for backgrounds, etc. and not just copper gradients. Pretty clever use of a 2bit playfield (yes 2, not a typo . There's a few interviews with the author around the net where its spoken about.

As for the fixation with rave/techno type music, Id hazzard a guess it stems from the fact that its easy to write and requires no real talent. It can also be written with small samples so has a small memory footprint.
(sorry, being that Ive been an actual musician for over 20 years I have a particular dislike of that sort of garbage

[fishy_fiz]

Yeah to be fair there is a small percentage of people involved in the genre that have some talent, but it is a genre that doesnt require a lot of skill to produce something, as is demonstrated by the vast majority of examples out there  

[fishy_fiz]

The 160 I mentioned was actually quoting (paraphrasing?) the author in an interview I read. I dont have the url handy, but I believe it was codetappers site. He interviews a few authors of commercial games. Pretty interesting reading in my opinion

Perhaps it was "up to 160".

Oh, any thanks for Mr. Beanbag by the way

[fishy_fiz]

Haha, yeah I'll admit my particular dislike of processed garbage, and music created with a few buttons on some iPad app, etc. (consumerism stuff) will probably skew my responses sometimes. I think Im just getting old

When I was a lad we didnt have no fancy computers to make our music for us,..... and so on and so forth