yeah i know ya point Van... its kinda a shame becuase if you do take it and do a blend stripple using StdWindows Colours in PaintShop it actually smooths out the colours.
I'm always quite amazed at how some artists could use only 16 colours back then and create a good 150. Oki sometimes you could see it in the pixelation on the low resolution games of 320x215 but still was pretty cool
Alien Breeds were another that used it to a good effect, especially in AlienBreed 3D - they took 256colours for speed reasons and gave the user the same effect as 16bit - was cool
Anata aru kowagaru no watashi!