Pixel art seems to be everywhere these days. It features heavily in some of Kickstarter’s most popular video games. GIFs of the stuff overrun Tumblr. There are more than 4,000 pixel-art crafts ...

"Monkey Island 1 and 2 weren't pixel art games. They were games using state-of-the-art tech and art," he said. "If I had stayed and done Monkey Island 3 it wouldn't have looked like Monkey Island 2.