01-15-2016, 08:49 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-15-2016, 08:50 AM by DragonDePlatino.)
You mean like in Hudson Hawk, Elf and Dennis the Menace? Ocean Software was a UK-based company, and that's just the style of most older 8-bit and 16-bit British games.
Most British developers got their start on older systems like the C64 and ZX Spectrum, where all-black backgrounds and gradients were very common. But once these companies made the jump to the 16-bit era, they didn't know how to fully utilize the stronger hardware. The result was a lot of games like Robocod, Alfred Chicken and Plok! that had simple backgrounds and short soundtracks.
Most British developers got their start on older systems like the C64 and ZX Spectrum, where all-black backgrounds and gradients were very common. But once these companies made the jump to the 16-bit era, they didn't know how to fully utilize the stronger hardware. The result was a lot of games like Robocod, Alfred Chicken and Plok! that had simple backgrounds and short soundtracks.