Pixel art

And I didn't know anybody rich enough to buy the Neo Geo home machine, so...

I feel like my first brush with the Neo Geo stuff, and especially Metal Slug, was when Neo Geo emulation first started getting good on PC, and people were like, oh my god, now I can finally play Metal Slug 1, Neo Turf Masters, I can play all of these games that have, we'll talk about it in a minute, impeccable pixel art.

And I can actually play them at home without having to spend hundreds of dollars on a single Neo Geo cartridge.

Because in the 90s, that's how much one single cartridge cost for the Neo Geo machine, which cost...

I can go first.

You said it right off the bat.

The pixel art and the animation quality in this game is second to none.

It is unreal.

But what also caught me was the Lovecraftian theming, which is, I know games these days, you can't sneeze in a direction without hitting someone who says, oh, look, H.P. Lovecraft.

But also, literally, the pixel art.

was so gorgeous that obviously it truly has nothing to do with that gold box era.

If you look at those graphics, they are limited.

This is obviously modern PC running quality, but dear goodness, these are some of the most lush pixel graphics I've seen in a while.

It's a really impressive game when you see a screenshot, for sure.

And it might be a screenshot of a scene from the game where you really get to see the pixel art.

But what drew me in was kind of like you.

But then I found Mika through one of the forums.

And he, you know, was just kind of starting off in the pixel art realm and was like, yeah, I want to get my feet wet and try this out.

He was, you know, in a whole other industry and stuff like that.

He just wanted to have fun, too.