Litterally 1984

Because no one ever ignores stop signs, especially when they think they’re useless

In my country it is actually illegal to ride a bike on the normal lanes if a bike lane / path is available

Mediterranean and mediterranean

I think it’s because there were more limitations than just resolution that we can ignore nowadays while still considering it pixel art. Things like limited color pallettes, sprite counts, having little memory to store graphics, low framerates, analog video, CRTs…