Mega Man X upgraded sprite design for the Blue Bomber ... and explosions feel way more explosive than they had any right to be on a 16-bit screen. The following games took the charge in making ...

The world map uses sprites, but the battle system has 3D character models and dragons. I played an early build of Alphadia Genesis and the game uses a standard command battle system. Players can ...

We're well past the saturation point for 8-bit and 16-bit aesthetics in the indie scene ... But the gamers who grew up with those sprite-centric visual styles are getting older, and when your ...

Mega Man 7 was the Blue Bomber's foray into the Super Nintendo, with bigger and more cartoon-like sprites ... retro-inspired games meant to imitate the look and feel of the original 8-bit games ...

The tight action, the great boss battles, and the wonderful encapsulation of the early 16-bit aesthetic make this a fun retro trip.

Now that Retro City Rampage is out on ... Befitting a sequel to an 8-bit game, Shakedown Hawaii will move into the heady realm of 16-bit graphics. Studio VBlank hasn't revealed much, aside from ...

While retro-themed games often call on the 16-bit sprites of classic RPGs or the cartoonish proportions of old mascot platformers, Lucas Pope's Return of the Obra Dinn instead channels the ...

Image courtesy of Bandai and HAL Laboratory Image courtesy of Bandai and HAL Laboratory Image courtesy of Bandai and HAL Laboratory The back side of this sprite light will have a USB-C cable slot ...

There are still a few weeks to go before Borderlands 2 hits the shelves, but if you're jonesing, developer Gearbox Software has created a 16-bit fix ... the game is a retro "demake", where ...