What is Colour Blasting on SNES?

Yes, this image has been Colour Blasted

Colour Blasting is a term I coined on New Year’s Day 2024 that I like to use to describe all the awesome things you can do on SNES due in part to its amazing colour capabilities, especially for a console of its time. My original idea was to use it as a “cool” back-of-box marketing name for the feature otherwise known as direct colour (bit of a boring name for a feature that allows the SNES to display a massive 2040+1 visible colours on background 1 alone), which I didn’t think would really excite people and capture their imaginations if they saw “uses direct colour” on the back of a new SNES game box. Thus, Colour Blasting was born.

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