There's something truly refreshing about 8-bit artistry. It really does harken back to a time when video game artists were able to create some pretty damn amazing stuff when faced with some very real barriers.

More than a decade ago, long before your fancy 32-bit color palette, computers could only display 256 colors at a time and techniques like color cycling were employed to provide an optical illusion that made rivers appear to be moving and flames appear to flicker.