Keen's shirt colour does not Thai in with opposition

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Keen's shirt colour does not Thai in with opposition

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Why is Keen's shirt pink?

Is it for compatibility with CGA graphics, a way of dealing with the limited EGA palette or what?



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Well, 6 of the colors were already used in Keen's sprites. And since colors 8-15 are pretty much lighter shades of colors 0-7 (except for 6 and 14), it would make sense to choose the last remaining color: 5.

In this picture, colors are numbered from left to right, starting with "0" in the top left corner, FYI.
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It's supposed to be lighter purple. Keen's real-life model wore a purple shirt.
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It's red in Keen GBC - they decided to make him more manly...
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But real men wear pink! :celtic
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Grimson wrote:Keen's real-life model wore a purple shirt.
As in Tom Hall?

Thanks for the answers everyone :)

In the light of a more reasonable hour it's pretty flipping obvious what the probable reasoning was. (That's a critique of my question, not of all of your responses.) Esp. considering the background colours in conjunction with the limited palette.

EDIT: Oh, I remember why I asked this now. Is the CGA palette a customised palette or did it just happen to have Keen's shirt colour? Because yeah, his pretty damn iconic shirt works in both CGA and EGA versions.
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As in Tom Hall?
No, the kid they IIRC used as a reference for Keen's postures. I read somewhere that they saw some kid in the street, wearing the football helmet, pogo stick and a purple shirt. I can't seem to find the source...
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kuliwil wrote:EDIT: Oh, I remember why I asked this now. Is the CGA palette a customised palette or did it just happen to have Keen's shirt colour? Because yeah, his pretty damn iconic shirt works in both CGA and EGA versions.
There are two standardised CGA pallettes: Black/White/Cyan/Magenta and Black/White/Red/Green. CGA Keen uses the former. It is also possible with CGA to create your own pallette (by choosing four of a possible sixteen colours), however this uses up extra memory and I doubt Id wanted to waste any given that they were already trying to cram a high-spec game into an out-dated graphical environment...
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Grimson wrote:No, the kid they IIRC used as a reference for Keen's postures. I read somewhere that they saw some kid in the street, wearing the football helmet, pogo stick and a purple shirt. I can't seem to find the source...
http://www.3drealms.com/fanstuff/keenstory/page2.html
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StupidBunny wrote:
Grimson wrote:No, the kid they IIRC used as a reference for Keen's postures. I read somewhere that they saw some kid in the street, wearing the football helmet, pogo stick and a purple shirt. I can't seem to find the source...
http://www.3drealms.com/fanstuff/keenstory/page2.html
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With that motion-capture technology.
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that`s explain a lot....
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Haha.

But yeah, I was talking to Tom Hall on Facebook once and he said that the character was based partially off him as a kid, labeling the Packer helmet and Converse sneakers as directly taken from his childhood.

The helmet through his team, obviously. I don't think he ran around with that on. Or maybe... :disguised
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Somehow I doubt Tom Hall was ever in an american football team.
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kuliwil wrote:The helmet through his team, obviously.
As a child he was known as the youngest-ever player in the history of the Packers. :P
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