Denial

When my parents bought me a 16K RAM cartridge, one of the first things I did was buy a tape of the game Bonzo, which doesn't seem to have been one of the more famous games on the VIC 20, but what really impressed me about it, other than that the main character was made up of more than one character block and multi-colored, was that the game took up the whole screen without the normal VIC border around the playing area. I'm not a huge gamer, so I was wondering if anyone knew if "borderless" games were that common. Sorry the photo is upside down, but if you click on it, it flips over.

There were quite a few old Vic games that used a larger playing area than the standard 176x184. Moons of Jupiter (C. D Byrden , Romik) and Bongo (Udo Gertz, Kingsoft) were two of my favorites but I really likes Bonzo as well (Pit by the same guy was also a fine game but unexpanded and not full screen).

There’s always a border. It’s just that

(1) The screen and border colors are the same, so you don’t see the border as separate, and

(2) The screen area is increased beyond the normal 22x23 size, and then properly positioned