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The original IBM Color Graphics Adapter was capable of displaying 160x200 in 16 colors using "composite color mode", which was set by enabling the "color burst" bit while in 640x200 mode. On true CGA cards with a composite video output (which includes Tandy 1000s and PCjrs), this video mode will display 160x200 graphics in 16 colors out to a regular television set or VCR. On a normal VGA card, however, it will wrongly appear as a regular 640x200 black-and-white display.

Title	Released	Platforms
Agent USA	1984	PC Booter, Commodore 64, Apple II...
Alphabet Zoo	1983	PC Booter, Commodore 64, ColecoVision...
Alter Ego	1986	DOS, Commodore 64, Apple II...
Archon: The Light and the Dark	1983	PC Booter, Amiga, NES...
Attack of the Petscii Robots	2021	DOS, Genesis, Amiga...
Battle Chess	1988	Linux, DOS, Windows...
Battle of Antietam	1985	DOS, Commodore 64, Apple II...
BC's Quest for Tires	1983	DOS, PC Booter, Commodore 64...
Below the Root	1984	PC Booter, Commodore 64, Apple II
Beneath Apple Manor	1978	PC Booter, Apple II, Atari 8-bit
Blue Angels: Formation Flight Simulation	1989	DOS, Amiga, Atari ST...
Boppie's Great Word Chase	1985	PC Booter, Commodore 64, Apple II
Bruce Lee	1984	DOS, PC Booter, Commodore 64...
Bumble Plot	1982	DOS, Apple II, Commodore 64...
BurgerTime	1982	PC Booter, NES, Commodore 64...
Buzzard Bait	1983	PC Booter, Apple II
California Games	1987	DOS, Genesis, Lynx...
Championship Baseball	1986	DOS, Amiga, Atari ST...
Championship Golf: The Great Courses of the World - Volume One: Pebble Beach	1986	DOS, Amiga
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator	1987	DOS, Commodore 64, Apple II...
Crossfire	1981	PC Booter, Commodore 64, Apple II...
Dino Eggs	1983	PC Booter, Commodore 64, Apple II
Donald Duck's Playground	1984	DOS, PC Booter, Amiga...
Drag Race Eliminator	1986	DOS, Commodore 64
Exodus: Ultima III	1983	DOS, Windows, Amiga...