I stumbled upon a great Pixel Games artist whilst browings through google in search of a few frameworks. Mr. Alastair John Jack has an eye for nice old-schoolish RPGs and he's created a few free games for your gaming pleasure. He's also working on two new games!

More info:

http://www.alastairjohnjack.com/

http://www.pixelprospector.com/indev/2009/11/classicvania-harmony-of-dissonance/

(The 2nd is a demo not provided on his website!)