Color Climax Review
Date: December 22nd, 2006
Score: Full 5/5
Niche: Retro, Magazine Archives, Classic Pornstar (1967-Present)
Design: Color Climax's design is just awesome. It's clean, it's sleek, and it has the smell of a very high production value design company all over it. They definitely spent a lot of time in figuring out exactly what the perfect setup is for a pornsite. Their execution is flawless on this part, and coupled with fantasic and user friendly navigation (I'll get into that later) you're looking at a winner already. Everything is clear and readable, you can find sections easily, and I especially love their photogallery design.
Pictures:The retro photo content that Color Climax offers is spectacular. This is stunning high quality stuff that has obviously been well taken care of. Honestly, it's the best remastering of Danish retro photography period. You would not believe these sets were taken many decades ago when you see the crisp, clear high quality pictures.
A ton of time and effort went into producing these retro photos to a modern quality standard. It wasn't like this on just their top sets either - no, every single set I looked at shared the same porn worksmanship. You can browse the photos in the galleries with the help of a nice slideshow or manual browse option. If you'd rather just download a zip of all of the pictures, you have that option as well. The pictures have watermarks, but they are small and out of the way. It shouldn't be too much of a bother. If I attempted to count exactly how many pictures they were offering, I'd most likely go insane. Sets are anywhere from 22 - 100 pics, divided up into browsable and searchable sections. You have signature photosets, which are themed picture sets such as latex obsessions and mega tits. They also offer collections of well known stars such as Peter North, Rocco Siffredi, Gigi, Bill the Bull, John Holmes, and countless others. Each signature series also has a background information article given, which just adds a ton of character and personality to this porn site.
Movies: The movies are in mp4 format if you'd like to download them. If you want to stream them, it's in Quick Time format. Both methods are speedy, and the movie quality was acceptable. It wasn't quite up to par with the stunning selections of photos, but it's much harder to make movies go up to quite that high of quality. You can browse movies by studio: Blue, Anal, School, Lesbian, Bizarre, and Transexuals in classics and bestseller categories.
Speed: I had no issues with the speed of the site. Both downloading, browsing, and streaming were quick.
Navigation: I'm going to hump whoever came up with their site navigation. Seriously. This is the pinncale of pornsite design right here, captured in a retro site. Ironic, isn't it? Let me tell you exactly why their site navigation is great. You might not really care about the technical side as much as me (I'm a geek at heart), but they do a lot of stuff so that you can have a seamless smut browsing experience.
The name of the navigation game is pure user friendliness, and Color Climax accomplishes this in spades. My favorite feature is the magazine and model index. You can search through all the Color Climax magazine issues to find what you're looking for, or you can just go by a model's name. Studio search options give you the ability to search by the year as well, letting you choose just how retro you'd like to go. You can also search by model attributes (hair color, that kind of thing). This is just a spectacular example of pure pornsite design mastery.
Originality: You might have seen Color Climax content around before, but you've never seen it at this high of quality. Color Climax also gets major points for their execution of a near perfect retro site.
Overall Ease of Use: The site goes out of its way to make sure that your experience is as fullfilling as possible with a bevy of user friendly features and easy to find sections.
Main Draws: High quality pictures, good quality movies, and a big quantity of both in the retro field. Oh and the orgasmic browsing experience. (yeah yeah, I'm a complete dork. So sue me!)
Updates: Color Climax updates twice daily.
Bonus Fun: There are full length erotic stories or background articles that go with every photoset. They were definitely enjoyable and written with a clear retro viewpoint, as well as matching the photoset. They have a Models of the Month feature that features modern beauties that share characteristics with classic Color Climax models. If you still need a bit more of a modern fix, Hustler Hardcore feeds are also available.
Guest photographers contribute to the Xposed photo section, which provides both great porn and behind the scenes shoots. This section is divided up into models, girl girl, boy girl, and group. There's also a Femme XXX section that shows off their favorite models like Anetta Keys and Terri Summers. They have also recently included a mobile movie section for those of you who like portable porn. In the works is a WAP version of the site as well. If you're feeling especially nostalgic, they offer Color Climax memorabilia.
Annoyances: The only problem I had the entire time while browsing is that one movie that I streamed didn't want to work properly. After a refresh, it was fine. It might have been my browser. That's the only thing I had an issue with, and other movies worked fine so it was probably a fluke.
Is It Worth it? If you like retro content at all, you are doing yourself a disservice if you don't check out Color Climax at least once. You will not find hardcore retro pictures and hot retro pinups that are captured in this high of quality photography anywhere else. Plus all the extras will keep you busy for hours (I know I had fun). Color Climax is my personal favorite for a retro site, that's for sure.
Price: 29.95/month, 59.95/3 months plus full archive access
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