Sonic’s running, rolling ... elements and personality to spare. Even today, pixel artists point to Third Strike as the high watermark for sprite animation in fighting games, and for good ...

What if Sonic the Hedgehog was ... loaded into screen area with a 128 pixel border or buffer area, variations in the SNES hardware design mean that the sprites are half the size, meaning more ...

Is it arguable that the end result is not technically pixel art or sprites? Sure, I guess. But I respect the amount of work that went into crafting each and every character. It was a workflow that ...