[whywhywhywhy]

No need for it to be ugly like CGA or EGA was ugly, plenty of retro computers had nice colors.

[extrabajs]

Can you name one that had a 24-bit palette?

[robxorb]

Amiga AGA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Advanced_Graphics_Archit...

As contemporary of 8-bit arch's it seems retro enough to count.