You want the image famous_sprites.png or the cartridge famous.p8 to import 100 famous characters into PICO-8.
awesome-PICO-8 provides Spritesheets and tools for the Pico-8 Palette which points to 100 famous characters. It's a cool resource! However, frustratingly, that resource is:
- Not actually 16-color art (on account of blending, etc. there are 1000's of discrete colors)
- Not laid out in a way that can be ingested for a cart (on account of the author having spaced the sprites in a pretty way).
Using ImageMagick and pico2png this repository produces a 128x128 PNG and a PICO-8 cart containing those 100 characters. The process is automated in the Makefile and required quite some fiddling.