Thanks a bunch! Yeah the dragon is what I started with, probably why it came out the best. Some of the other things lacked a bit in colors due to the limit and the fact I "spent" so much of the pallet on greens. Overall I was pretty happy with the effect.

Love the coloring style. The dithering is used to great effect to give it a almost painted look.

Very great. Love the robot's "anatomy"

Love this style. Any art that instantly wants me to play a game with it in it is great.

Just took a look at Shadowgate, can see it!

I do like the inverted version quite a bit. You're definitely right about that, I always have a hard time with color.

The perspective isn't really meant to be accurate for a few reasons. First it's based off work by another artist that I was trying to emulate. That work doens't really use one point perspective as it's purposely skewed.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tIN3T5pY7HA/TDWciZICfCI/AAAAAAAAAZY/H1r7aWSMB6M/s400/069_The+man+who01-02.jpg

Probably a bad choice to try to do in pixel art, but felt like doing something different with the pallet.

I thought about the perspective quite a bit, but decided that even if I did want to make it technically correct I really could figure a way to do that without ending up with really jagged lines in order ot have them all meet. Especially given that with the color pallet I couldn't AA them. Maybe there's a way I'm just not thinking of, but I couldn't think of anything. Could have been due to my sketch being bad in the first place, would have been better to plan it out for the perspective I think. But after I had most of it down I just couldn't find a way to make it work.

Any ideas let me know so I can use them in the future!

Thanks for your comments both!

It's not nearly "exactly" like the original, there's quite a few things different for better or worse. Not huge differences, but seeing as that was the look I was going for I was not sure how I could make it drastically far away from them and still have it look like them when I'm using this scale and color selection. Any advice would be great!

I don't think it defeats the purpose to base him off something else. I could have changed the style, dimensions, or whatever more but don't think it would have been as readable and as obvious that it was a Rivery City Ransom inspired take on mega-man. Once again any information about how I could improve on my work to not "defeat the purpose of the challenge" would be helpful.

As I read it the "purpose of the challenge" was to redesign mega-man, which I did based on inspiration from my favorite NES game.

It is a bit of a scene, but it does have both a shoot and take damage animation for the man. :) I'm glad you think it's fun idea, mashing of games(especially those with distinct art styles) always makes me smile.

Yes, I love Sierra's games from the era. Quest for Glory has always been my favorite by far. Shadows of Darkness in particular, but the first one is probably second which i swhat inspired this scene.

Love the style. These little guys look awesome and detailed even with small size.

Very nice. One of my favorite games as well, always enjoy seeing art inspired by it. Everything is very clean.

Very nice, would love to see a game with this art. Very put to together and defined.

Great animations and great clean style. Really like it.

Really nice. Love the simple yet elegant style.  Clean lines and shadows make it very clear.

Sorry, sorry. I think this comment is for the first one which I uploaded on accident. It  has quite a bit of CG work on it as I went over it with a semi-transparent brush for shading. There is another copy I uploaded later which is the pixel version where I only used the pencil tool and fill tool(with opaque colors). If this is the first one(which I think it is based on the description and color count) then please ignore it as it's definitely not "pixel" I was confused about the definition at the time. Sorry for trouble.

Deleted, had much transparent brush and too messy.

Yeah, real messy! Done fast for avatar since I can't use my regular one here.

Photoshop, drawn at actual size with 1-pixel pencil brush only.(Other than a few solid color fills for base)