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That ain't 8-bit. That's just crappy graphics ala 1995 Mac OS Classic games. Looks alot like the old shareware Escape Velocity games.

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I wasn't going to nitpick but yeah.

This is an adventure game running on an 8-bit computer (Apple II): http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/42948-king-s-quest-a...

Exactly. The labeling of anything with low resolution sprites/graphics as 8-bit drives me up the wall. The atari 2600 was 8-bit. The NES, 8-bit. They have very different aesthetics. "Low resolution" (lo-rez if you're nasty) would be a much better term as it doesn't tie the graphics to any type of hardware.

The screenshot do look a tiny bit like EV, though it's hard to tell. But apart from that, it seems totally different, what with being (ostensibly) a point-and-click adventure.

Incidently, if anyone has a hankering for something like Escape Velocity, which ranks up there as one of my favorite games of all time, I've wasted the entire last weekend playing Space, Pirates and Zombies, which is similar to EV. Still not as good (in terms of setting and overall gameplay; the combat mechanics are far better) but the closest I have been able to find in, what, 10 years now?

It is '8-bit style'

No, it _isn't_. It has many things that NO 8-bit system was capable of, like smooth gradients in multiple colors, and rotated sprites.

16-bit I'd maybe grant you, but no way is it 8-bit.

I think we should beWhat about it is 8-bit style? What is 8-bit style?

If it means that it resembles games on 8-bit computers or game consoles, then no, it doesn't really look like 8-bit style. It looks more like early 1990s computer gaming, when things were fully 32-bit all around if you had to reduce it to those terms.

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