In the mid-1990's I was really into Nintendo games, as was everyone. My favorite was the original NES Final Fantasy. Sometime in my teens I got my first computer, and I decided it would be cool if I had some sprites of that game on my computer.

Before

My first computer ran at 640x480 with 16 colors. I had Windows 3.1 and the most sophisticated image manipulation program around was MS Paint. How could I get sprites into my computer? Well, I had a strategy guide for the game, with blurry photos of all of the enemies, so I just opened up MS Paint, zoomed waaaaaaaay in, and drew all of the sprites pixel-by-pixel. Insane? Maybe, but it's a fun kind of insane.

This took about a year of off-and-on work, but in the end I had something I thought was great. I still have the file: