Talk:Stone Sling

Gameplay
The description of the background as "a colorful enviroment with yellow walls, green valleys, blue mountains, and a bright blue river in between the two fortresses", while matching the picture included in the article, does not seem to be accurate. Actual screenshots, such as those featured here and here, do not show such detail. Moreover, such resolution seemed far beyond the Odyssey²'s capacity. Is it possible that the picture in the article is of an overlay, such as those produced for the original Odyssey, which could have been affixed to a television screen?

Update
According to an article on GameSpy's ClassicGaming website, updated versions of many classic games were to be made for the Odyssey³ console, the successor to the Odyssey² which never made it to the United States but was released in Europe as the Philips Videopac + G7400. These games would incorporate highly detailed background graphics which could be viewed on the newer console but would merely appear like the older versions on the Odyssey². Some of the highly detailed screenshots taken from Dieter Koenig's website which accompany Wikipedia Videopac game articles are screenshots of the updated games made for the Philips Videopac + G7400. Koenig comments that the "Screenshots were taken from real G7000/G7400 machines using a Hauppauge WinTV Theater tuner card." --Killerwasp 02:16, 12 February 2006 (UTC)