Around 1987, toy company LJN released a game console known as the VideoArt. All of the games were very simple paint programs with the difference being the pictures that were presented to be colored in.

This cartridge contains pictures of Disney characters. Because the LJN VideoArt does not erase whatever you draw whenever you switch backgrounds, they tried to use this to tell a story. They show you the image one piece at a time, and you color that part in before moving on to the next one. This allows the story to progress. I do not have the expertise to dump the ROMs, and there is no working emulation. Thus, I tried to preserve the content in other ways.

I have included images of the circuit board, as well as a scan of the manual. All screenshots from the game were taken as photos of the game on my professional video monitor. If I convert the RF signal from my LJN VideoArt to composite and try to use it with my video capture devices, I either get no signal or a black and white image. Thus, this is the best way I have found to capture the images in the correct colors.

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