Thanks play playing!
We never considered that the low res mode with actually make it run faster so that's good to know. Unfortunately when developing on a high end machine it's hard to test performance especially in a games jam.
The idea for the descriptions was just to give you a hint on what the 'upgrade' would be. It was just another layer in the 'out of control' theme. I find flip screen, low res, black and white, auto turn left / right and broken accelerator all layered together utterly impossible to play.