Art Alive on the Sega Genesis is basically a digital sketchbook with a few fun quirks. You start with a blank screen and a palette of colors that feel way brighter than they should on a 16-bit system—like someone cranked the saturation up to max. The brush tools are simple, just different sizes and shapes, but there’s something satisfying about how the pixels layer on the screen.

It’s not exactly Photoshop (obviously), but messing around with the symmetry tool or filling the screen with weird patterns has this weirdly hypnotic effect. I used to waste hours just doodling random stuff, then hitting the animation button to watch my terrible art wobble around. The music’s this weirdly calming synth loop that either relaxes you or makes you zone out completely.

Honestly, it’s less of a "game" and more of a toy—but if you ever wanted to pretend you were an avant-garde pixel artist in 1991, this is your chance.