If you’re trying to pixel what the left brain thinks a pony looks like, the adventure pony style is a possible result.

I can’t draw but I can sprite.  
I just don’t see your logic and I don’t think I ever will as my brain is likely wired differently than yours.

The thing that separates drawers from people who can’t draw (e.g. people who were probably the spriters for adventure ponies) is mainly the mental approach. The right hemisphere of the brain has all spatial reasoning necessary to draw well. The left hemisphere of the brain will draw what it thinks something is but will get less awesome results. There are ways to make sure you’re using the correct hemisphere for drawing but there have been at least one textboom written about this.

Since I screwed up the formatting in my post and there’s no edit function, let’s try this again:  
Adventure

thus*

This the problem is seeing Adventure ponies as NES or Master System styled when it was Clearly Atari 2600 styled. If a bit too many colors.

Kids, this is a sample of gameplay from Pitfall, possibly the finest game ever created for the Atari 2600. For contrast, this is what Adventure looked like. (The arrow is supposed to be a sword, and the duck-looking thing is a dragon.)
 
Adventure Ponies looked just fine to this old gamer.

Oh, wait, I just realized your pixels are twice as large as I thought they were, nevermind.

If I could make one suggestion, it would be to make the snout less blocky, perhaps remove one pixel from the underside so that it has more the curved snout shape mares usually have in the show?

Thank you.
 
_{^{though I still fail to see how that had to do with drawing skills at all}}

I’ll let Starly handle the rest of the mane six. I mainly did this to show that even drawing skills will help you make better super low res sprites.

I hope I get to see a pony like the one on the left.  
And probably throw tomatoes at it.

@Starly  
You lose motivation pretty easily anyway, girl.

I hope to see a whole series of ponies like the one on the right.

cause like I said, I was gonna do the exact same thing.

It just killed my motivation is all. :/

Don’t worry Starly. Just cause other people make sprites doesn’t mean that you can’t too. It’s not like you’re stealing. That’s like saying that because somebody else decided to draw rarity with pencils, it’d be stealing if I drew Rarity with pencils.

Im done, Starly.

“ MY ART IS BETTER THAN YOURS! YOU SUCK! ME GREAT!”

Please tell me this is the last one you’re making.

Galaga will always be the best retro game anyway. You just can’t beat Galaga.

@Itsthinking huh… I don’t have much experience with actual retro games so I’m probably coincidentally one of those 2012 people. Remembering my own experiences with a few Nes games, you’re certainly right that old sprites had more fluid animations and generally more tasteful.

Hmm the picture on the right wouldn’t look out of place on the NES, but the one on the left looks more like the Atari’s graphics. That may be why it looks too primitive, they were going for a slightly more retro look then we thought.

Dayum, that’s some good Rarity on the right.

They wanted to make a game that would look “retro” to someone from 2012 and with little knowledge about games other than the fact that they were stiff, blocky, and had minor differences in character designs. I think the one on the left accomplishes that.
 
Like I said, it’s what an average person from 2012 thinks all 80s games were like, but they were usually more like the one on the right.