What retro video game sprites actually look like
What “retro-influenced” indie devs think they look like
youre not going far enough back my dude
the SNES (the platform megaman 7 was first released on) was a 16-bit game, which is why that sprite is as detailed as it is, but video games didn’t start at 16-bit, no siree.
^manic miner, 1983, ZX spectrum
^ basketball (creative right?), 1978, atari
^ outlaw, 1976, atari
behold the power (or lack of) of 8-bit processors.