He renewed in time, it was Apple that made the mistake.

"Three days later I was able to get a response from Apple that verified this was, indeed, a problem with their internal software and that there was nothing I could do about it." Quoth the article.

It is '8-bit style'

No, it _isn't_. It has many things that NO 8-bit system was capable of, like smooth gradients in multiple colors, and rotated sprites.

16-bit I'd maybe grant you, but no way is it 8-bit.

I think we should beWhat about it is 8-bit style? What is 8-bit style?

If it means that it resembles games on 8-bit computers or game consoles, then no, it doesn't really look like 8-bit style. It looks more like early 1990s computer gaming, when things were fully 32-bit all around if you had to reduce it to those terms.