Your favourite pixel art games

Hey guys,

I am doing a bit of research and was wondering what great pixel games you have played.

Retro or modern!

 

The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Mega Man 2
Mega Man X
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy VI
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario World

Classics ftw

 

Yeah, definitely everyone of those. Chrono trigger and Alundra as well.

 

Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle and all adventures from Lucas Arts.
Marios.
Zeldas.
Street Fighter 2.
Final Fight.

 

Shadow of the Beast 1, sort of. For the time it was groundbreaking.

 

I didn't get Chrono Trigger until the PSX era, though it was quite an epic game. Never played Alundra, though.

I also missed a few others!

Metroid
Super Metroid
Ys III (yeah, the weird side-scrolling one)

 

Alundra is very much like A Link To The Past in style of gameplay. You go into peoples nightmares though, as parts of your quest. "Dungeons" I guess you would say. It's a PSX game. Loved every bit of it. Look into it.

Faxanadu and Master Blaster are amazing NES titles also.

 

Here are some more modern ones:

Sword and Sworcery

Teleglitch

 

I'll chuck in a few more modern ones.
- Hotline Miami.
- Spelunky (the original pc version).

 

All old SNES RPG's like Secret of Mana, Illusion of Gaia, Chronotrigger. Actraiser is also very charming.

And all on Asvarduols list. Everything new just doesn't have the same impact on me since these old games will always be the games that made me like games.

 

old school : boogerman!

The character animations are so funny, his jump the burp or fart build up and IIRC the first boss fight is a red neck with a chicken

check out comix zone as well

 

>_>
<_<
...Minecraft
*Runs*

 

It's OK, the game practically is pixel art. (Well, voxels, but still. It can be used to recreate pixel art. Whatever. I'll just send some Shriekers after you later.)

 

Cave story, anyone?

 

Seiken Densetsu 3 is said to have some of the best pixel art work of all time. I haven't played through it entirely but it is very beautiful.

Also I don't know if you would count it, but donkey kong country 1 and 2 are also very detailed, even though they are technically 3d renders converted to pixel sprites.

 

zork

 

Thanks everyone for your replies!!

 

What about super meat boy? It's pixel art, no?

 

i have the entire meatboy sprite collection becasue i wanted to study the frame by frame, but its a mix. Some stuff is clearly pixelart'ish, and some is not. Im not sure what to call it, its Edmunds very unique take on pixelart,thats for sure One of the reasons its such a great game!

 

canabalt, meatboy, sword&sorcery, the binding of isaac remake

 

For a modern example, Bastion looks good.

 

Deffinetley Elysis, its a pretty cool game!

 

Not out yet, but Hyper Light Drifter will probably make it on my list.

 

Riot's looking pretty good!