This is a full list of color palettes for notable video game console hardware.

For each unique palette, an image color test chart and sample image (original True color version follows) rendered with that palette (without dithering unless otherwise noted) are given. The test chart shows the full 8 bit, 256 levels of the red, green and blue (RGB) primary colors and cyan, magenta and yellow complementary colors, along with a full 8 bit, 256 levels grayscale. Gradients of full saturation of intermediate colors (orange, yellow-green, green-cyan, blue-cyan, violet, and red-magenta), and a full hue spectrum are also present. Color charts are not gamma corrected.

Atari

Atari 2600

The Television Interface Adaptor (TIA) is the custom computer chip that generated graphics for the Atari Video Computer System game console. It generated different YIQ color palettes dependent on the television signal format used.Atari 2600 "TIA color chart".

NTSC With the NTSC format, a 128-color palette was available, built based on eight luma values and 15 combinations of I and Q chroma signals (plus I = Q = 0 for a pure grayscale):

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{|class="wikitable" ! ! colspan="18" |Hue |- ! rowspan="10" |Luma !Decimal !> | style="width: 16px; text-align: center;" | 0 | style="width: 16px; text-align: center;" | 1 | style="width: 16px; text-align: center;" | 2 | style="width: 16px; text-align: center;" | 3 | style="width: 16px; text-align: center;" | 4 | style="width: 16px; text-align: center;" | 5 | style="width: 16px; text-align: center;" | 6 | style="width: 16px; text-align: center;" | 7 | style="width: 16px; text-align: center;" | 8 | style="width: 16px; text-align: center;" | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |- !v !Hex |0 |1 |2 |3 |4 |5 |6 |7 |8 |9 |A |B |C |D |E |F |- | 0, 1 |0, 1 | style="color:white; background:#000;" | | style="color:white; background:#440;" | | style="color:white; background:#702800;" | | style="color:white; background:#841800;" | | style="color:white; background:#880000;" | | style="color:white; background:#78005c;" | | style="color:white; background:#480078;" | | style="color:white; background:#140084;" | | style="color:white; background:#000088;" | | style="color:white; background:#00187c;" | | style="color:white; background:#002c5c;" | | style="color:white; background:#003c2c;" | | style="color:white; background:#003c00;" | | style="color:white; background:#143800;" | | style="color:white; background:#2c3000;" | | style="color:white; background:#442800;" | |- | 2, 3 |2, 3 | style="color:white; background:#404040;" | | style="color:white; background:#646410;" | | style="color:white; background:#844414;" | | style="color:white; background:#983418;" | | style="color:white; background:#9c2020;" | | style="color:white; background:#8c2074;" | | style="color:white; background:#602090;" | | style="color:white; background:#302098;" | | style="color:white; background:#1c209c;" | | style="color:white; background:#1c3890;" | | style="color:white; background:#1c4c78;" | | style="color:white; background:#1c5c48;" | | style="color:white; background:#205c20;" | | style="color:white; background:#345c1c;" | | style="color:white; background:#4c501c;" | | style="color:white; background:#644818;" | |- | 4, 5 |4, 5 | style="color:white; background:#6c6c6c;" | | style="color:white; background:#848424;" | | style="color:white; background:#985c28;" | | style="color:white; background:#ac5030;" | | style="color:white; background:#b03c3c;" | | style="color:white; background:#a03c88;" | | style="color:white; background:#783ca4;" | | style="color:white; background:#4c3cac;" | | style="color:white; background:#3840b0;" | | style="color:white; background:#3854a8;" | | style="color:white; background:#386890;" | | style="color:white; background:#387c64;" | | style="color:white; background:#407c40;" | | style="color:white; background:#507c38;" | | style="color:white; background:#687034;" | | style="color:white; background:#846830;" | |- | 6, 7 |6, 7 | style="color:white; background:#909090;" | | style="color:white; background:#a0a034;" | | style="color:white; background:#ac783c;" | | style="color:white; background:#c06848;" | | style="color:white; background:#c05858;" | | style="color:white; background:#b0589c;" | | style="color:white; background:#8c58b8;" | | style="color:white; background:#6858c0;" | | style="color:white; background:#505cc0;" | | style="color:white; background:#5070bc;" | | style="color:white; background:#5084ac;" | | style="color:white; background:#509c80;" | | style="color:white; background:#5c9c5c;" | | style="color:white; background:#6c9850;" | | style="color:white; background:#848c4c;" | | style="color:white; background:#a08444;" | |- | 8, 9 |8, 9 | style="color:white; background:#b0b0b0;" | | style="color:white; background:#b8b840;" | | style="color:white; background:#bc8c4c;" | | style="color:white; background:#d0805c;" | | style="color:white; background:#d07070;" | | style="color:white; background:#c070b0;" | | style="color:white; background:#a070cc;" | | style="color:white; background:#7c70d0;" | | style="color:white; background:#6874d0;" | | style="color:white; background:#6888cc;" | | style="color:white; background:#689cc0;" | | style="color:white; background:#68b494;" | | style="color:white; background:#74b474;" | | style="color:white; background:#84b468;" | | style="color:white; background:#9ca864;" | | style="color:white; background:#b89c58;" | |- | 10, 11 |A, B | style="color:white; background:#c8c8c8;" | | style="color:white; background:#d0d050;" | | style="color:white; background:#cca05c;" | | style="color:white; background:#e09470;" | | style="color:white; background:#e08888;" | | style="color:white; background:#d084c0;" | | style="color:white; background:#b484dc;" | | style="color:white; background:#9488e0;" | | style="color:white; background:#7c8ce0;" | | style="color:white; background:#7c9cdc;" | | style="color:white; background:#7cb4d4;" | | style="color:white; background:#7cd0ac;" | | style="color:white; background:#8cd08c;" | | style="color:white; background:#9ccc7c;" | | style="color:white; background:#b4c078;" | | style="color:white; background:#d0b46c;" | |- | 12, 13 |C, D | style="color:white; background:#dcdcdc;" | | style="color:white; background:#e8e85c;" | | style="color:white; background:#dcb468;" | | style="color:white; background:#eca880;" | | style="color:white; background:#eca0a0;" | | style="color:white; background:#dc9cd0;" | | style="color:white; background:#c49cec;" | | style="color:white; background:#a8a0ec;" | | style="color:white; background:#90a4ec;" | | style="color:white; background:#90b4ec;" | | style="color:white; background:#90cce8;" | | style="color:white; background:#90e4c0;" | | style="color:white; background:#a4e4a4;" | | style="color:white; background:#b4e490;" | | style="color:white; background:#ccd488;" | | style="color:white; background:#e8cc7c;" | |- | 14, 15 |E, F | style="color:white; background:#ececec;" | | style="color:white; background:#fcfc68;" | | style="color:white; background:#ecc878;" | | style="color:white; background:#fcbc94;" | | style="color:white; background:#fcb4b4;" | | style="color:white; background:#ecb0e0;" | | style="color:white; background:#d4b0fc;" | | style="color:white; background:#bcb4fc;" | | style="color:white; background:#a4b8fc;" | | style="color:white; background:#a4c8fc;" | | style="color:white; background:#a4e0fc;" | | style="color:white; background:#a4fcd4;" | | style="color:white; background:#b8fcb8;" | | style="color:white; background:#c8fca4;" | | style="color:white; background:#e0ec9c;" | | style="color:white; background:#fce08c;" | |} The above image assumes there is no limit on the number of colors per scan line. With the system's actual color restrictions (and proper change in aspect ratio), the same image would look very different:

PAL With the PAL format, a 104-color palette was available. 128-color entries could still be selected, but due to the different color encoding scheme, 32 color entries results in the same eight shades of gray:

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