Made for the weekly challenge, I was trying to impersonate the artist on here named Snake, who's work I greatly admire - particularly his mock ups. I'm new to pixeljoint, but spend time on pixelation.com, so this is actually my first submission here.
The original NES and SNES versions of the game didn't quite feel like a fun house. I really wanted to ramp up a particular mood that I saw hinted at in the originals.
Some things snake does in his art is use complementary colours, dark backgrounds, mildly desaturated but bright characters with round features, tried to scale things to be more to real life size when he recreates games, uses interesting textures with whispy details, and has backgrounds that are as detailed as the foreground. I think I have captured all these in the piece. | 
Weekly Challenge: April Fools Gallery 2016
Yeah you are right Paddy. I started off copying the bricks to get a handle on his style, but never found the time to go back and revise them to something more relevant. I figured they were barely passable since Snake's curb stones in Chip & Dale 3 are similar to the stones on the castle in wario land, but now that I think about it they are different enough to be unique. If I continue it after the challenge, I would probably add steel floor with stage lights or something. I'd also add colours just for the rat. I will probably revise and update this piece, because I quite like it.