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Just the clouds you say? I count 12 distinct tiles on that screen. They were incredibly efficient with space-- the rom for that game is 40kb.. less than two uncompressed htmls of the front page of HN!



> They were incredibly efficient with space

Not saying they were not, but compressed 64 color graphics/palettes and 6502 machine code would usually not take an enormous amount of space.




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