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Where this is particularly prevalent is in gaming, especially if you are playing on a handheld. Take the [[Game Boy]] line.
* The original [[Game Boy]] had no light and a monochrome color setup. Thus almost all games were dark colors on a light background. This was also true with the [[Neo Geo Pocket]]. There was, however, a short-lived Game Boy Light which came with an electro-luminicent screen; however, it was a power guzzler, and [[No Export for You|it never left Japan.]]
* The [[Game Boy Color]] didn't have a light, but a full color scheme. Some games were also dark on light, such as ''[[
* The [[Game Boy Advance]] has either no light (original model), a frontlight (first SP line AGS-001), or a backlight (second SP line AGS-101 and Micro). This can actually affect the contrast of the colors. No light is actually harder to see than the other systems. Front light is easy to see, but washes out all the colors a bit. Back light is most like a regular TV. Games made specifically for the GBA also had different color setups than ports from the SNES and other home systems.
* Handhelds that always had backlights, such as the [[Atari Lynx]], [[Game Gear]], [[DS]], [[PSP]], have generally the same color setups as home console games. Unfortunately, backlit displays wash out completely in bright sunlight. At least you can see okay indoors, eh?
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== Action Adventure ==
* For 200% map completion in ''[[Castlevania]] [[Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance|Harmony of Dissonance]]'', you may have to switch to Game Boy Player just to see the castle map better, since it is hard to tell which rooms you've missed on the original GBA.
* ''[[Castlevania: Circle of the Moon]]'' is difficult to play on the original GBA because the colors were too dark in the beginning, and using a light accessory doesn't help.
** ''Circle of the Moon'' and its color issues are often [[Mis Blamed|wrongly attributed]] to Konami. The early development kits for the GBA did not display colors the way the GBA itself would display colors, resulting in the earlier games appearing too dark. Nintendo quickly learned of the problems and sent updated devkits to all developers to mitigate the problem until they could develop a backlit version of the handheld.
** ''[[Harmony of Dissonance]]'' attempted to correct this by having much more color saturation and giving Juste Belmont a blue glow that <s>had no plot justification whatsoever</s> is hand-waved by stating in [[All There in the Manual|the supplementary guides]] that the Belmont and Belnades bloodlines mixed sometime shortly after Castlevania I, giving Juste magical powers including the glow.
*** As an aside, this plus a nonsensical [[An Interior Designer Is You|room decoration subquest]] has resulted in Juste Belmont having a reputation as far and away the most Fabulous member of the Belmont clan.
* Some complained that the GBA port of ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** At least they let you play with the SNES palette.
* Inverted with the [[Boktai]] series. All of the GBA games require sunlight and the DS game can use sunlight. (There was an actual UV sensor in the cart that affected gameplay. Afterall you ''are'' killing vampires in this game.) Anyone who has used a TV knows that sunlight + screen = glare. However if you play it on the original GBA (or [[SP 1]] with the backlight turned off) the screen and colors are best in direct sunlight.
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== Driving Game ==
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== Platform Game ==
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* ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' had several color settings supposed to even out the color differences between different forms of display. Not just for light and no light, but also one optimized for TV using the Game Boy Player!
** As did ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
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