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Color DreamsColor Dreams was a company that developed video games for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). While most companies that developed NES games obtained an official license from Nintendo to produce game cartridges, Color Dreams was unique in that it developed NES games without an official license. To produce these unlicensed games, Color Dreams had to reverse engineer the NES to work around the system's "lock out" chip. The company successfully reverse engineered the system, developed a game (Baby Boomer), and released it in 1989. Several other titles followed in 1989 and 1990, including Captain Comic, Crystal Mines, and Robo Demons. Despite Color Dreams' efforts to work around the NES's built in protection, consumers frequently had difficulty getting their systems to play Color Dreams titles, sometimes having to restart their systems multiple times to play the games. As a result of its reputation for releasing poor games, Color Dreams formed the label Bunch Games in 1990. Bunch Games was meant to be a label that Color Dreams could use to release lower quality games so that its reputation would not be damaged further. In 1991, Color Dreams formed Wisdom Tree for the purpose of releasing Christianity-themed games. The Wisdom Tree label resulted in Color Dreams' best selling titles, including Spiritual Warfare and Bible Adventures. While Wisdom Tree remains active today and is still selling religious video games, Color Dreams quit the video game business in the mid 1990s. Wisdom Tree is no longer associated with Color Dreams. One Color Dreams project that was never released was a game based on the movie Hellraiser. The game cartridge was designed to contain extra RAM and processing power so that higher quality graphics (16-bit) could be displayed on the NES. After delays and development problems, the project was abandoned when Nintendo announced the release of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Color Dreams games, as well as the games of its two subsidiary labels, are frequently critcized as having sub-par graphics and sound when compared to other NES titles. Color Dreams NES Games References - NESWorld.com
- planetnintendo.com
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