Hardware-faithful packs use the exact restricted palettes of historic systems — four greens for Game Boy, the NES master palette for NES, the C64 sixteen — so the cursor reads like it could have shipped on the original boot screen.
Retro Game Hardware Cursor Theme
Cursors that respect the hardware palettes of the NES, Game Boy, C64, and arcade cabinets.
Tag matches
Packs surface in this theme when one of their tags overlaps with the theme's tag set. The current set is:
#nes #game-boy #commodore-64 #arcade #retro #8-bit #16-bit
Designing your own Retro Game Hardware cursor
If you would rather make your own pack in this theme, the beginner pixel-cursor tutorial covers the five-pass design process. The Aseprite walkthrough shows the same process inside the standard pixel-art editor. Read the readability rules before you commit to a palette — most thematic packs fail readability, not aesthetics.