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admin

2013-01-09T13:44:15+00:00

'Top game' lists ('Top 100 Sega games' &c) are bad, and people should

stop making and reading them, but despite that, the people over at

• [Retro-Sanctuary](http://www.retro-sanctuary.com/index.html)* do a

brilliant job of them. Despite the conceptual incoherence of ranking

games, the lists that \_RS *compiles do a good job of helping one gain

an understanding of how the libraries of third, fourth and fifth

generation platforms are related to amongst themselves.*

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The [ported-games

comparisons](http://www.retro-sanctuary.com/Comparisons%20Main.html) section

that the website has developed features a really good run-down of the

differences between the [Earthworm Jim

ports](http://www.retro-sanctuary.com/comparisons%20-%20earthworm%20jim.html)

of the early 90s. What is particularly interesting about the article on

EWJ is its discussion of the different graphics capabilities of the SNES

and the Mega Drive--specifically, the Mega Drive's use of

[dithering](http://www.retro-sanctuary.com/comparisons%20-%20differing.html) as

a remedy for its limited on-screen colour palette.