I don’t know about you, but I find it a bit easier to appreciate pixel art when I can easily see the individual pixels that make it up. As a reluctant proponent of the DSi XL and a long-suffering victim of the Firefox “image blur” problem, I believe from the bottom of my heart that nothing should stand between anyone and enjoying fat, bright pixels.

Recently, a Swedish pixel artist by the name of Junkboy posted a whole grip of pixel-art demakes he made for equally Swedish gaming mag Level.  Below is the gallery of artwork he posted on wayofthepixel but with a catch: I’ve taken the liberty of manually resizing each one. The images below are repping that nearest neighbor ish hard, and hopefully they please your eyes as much as they do mine.

There are some fun details you’ll be able to to pick up on in the blown-up pictures, too. Here are just a couple:

  • Look closely at the point-and-click adventure game version Brutal Legend – there’s totally a Monkey Island style cross cursor to the right of the demon lady.
  • Apparently Junkboy’s reimagining of Mirror’s Edge is a classic time-trial platformer: peep the time limit tucked into the upper-left corner.
  • In the Killzone 2 piece, that’s totally Sev as player 1 and Natko as player 2. The thirteen-pixel mohawk and nineteen-pixel bandanna are dead giveaways.

Notice anything cool in the gallery? Let us know in the comments!