5200 screen saver?

[BONK]

Today when i was playing Pac-Man on my 5200 i paused it and came back about 5 mins later and the screen was completly red. At first i thought it had froze up or something but when i unpaused it went back to normal. is it possible that the 5200 had some sort of screen capture

[Tempest]

All 5200/8-bit games (and most 2600 games) are supposed to do this. The color cycling is to protect the screen from burn-in. The 'screen saver' is actually listed in Atari's own programming specs. Of course this feature really isn't needed anymore.

 

Tempest

[BONK]

Ahh i see