Sorry, did I say 12 pixels? I meant 10! [1]

Zooming out on that image it all comes flooding back - they have such swagger! The animator deserves an award of some sort.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/WAltx1l.gif

I can't be bothered to check if the article mentions this, but apparently the game was born as a challenge for the artist to draw the smallest animated character that was still recognizable!

yes!!