Mapstalgia

[Thrik]

Just stumbled upon this bizarre little site, Mapstalgia - Video game maps drawn from memory.

At first I was all , but as I kept looking I started to get all as a weird kind of nostalgia was brought on.

I haven't played or seen many of the games featured pretty much since they came out (including HL1), so looking at an abstract overview coming from someone else's memory kind of triggered my own memories and made me feel all warm and fuzzy.

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[Sentura]

that's pretty fucking awesome

[dux]

*reinstalls*

[RedYager]

*reinstalls*

[-HP-]

Waits for Black Mesa Source... lol.

[Thrik]

":3ig7vni9]Waits for Black Mesa Source... lol.

See you after HL3.

[Sentura]

":k6v53y11]Waits for Black Mesa Source... lol.

See you after HL3.

careful JeanPaul doesn't see this...

[Mazy]

Really cool idea, kinda wanna try and do a map of HL1 as well now

[ShockaPop]

Hehe, Tetris from that site:

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/mapsta ... wzc1rn1cvh

But yea, that Black Mesa drawing is pretty kickass!

[selmitto]

Drawn from memory? That's insane.

[Thrik]

It does seem extreme, but I bet you I could put together something just as detailed for something like Metal Gear Solid. Amazing how it can imprint on your mind.

[dux]

I could totally draw all the levels from hl1 without an issue.

*Nerd*

[Jetsetlemming]

It does seem extreme, but I bet you I could put together something just as detailed for something like Metal Gear Solid. Amazing how it can imprint on your mind.

You made me start thinking about this, and I think I could get at least to where you fight the tank driven by vulcan raven. Weird, it's seriously been over a decade since I played MGS, and I don't think I ever replayed it. But I can still fully picture a lot of that game's levels in my mind anyway. Bunch of fragments past that, too, like the room with the molten metal you had to go to to heat up a keycard, and the room with a metal gear rex in it that you could run around/climb on.

MGS2 as well. Not so much the ship from the intro (though I can perfectly picture the outside deck of it), but Big Shell, the area you play as Raiden in.

Also I have every urban environment from Shadowrun on the genesis, in every little detail, committed to memory, but that's a game I have replayed like twenty times since I first got it as a kid.

[selmitto]

Now that I'm thinking, I guess I could draw some Counter Strike maps. de_dust, de_dust2, cs_rio, de_aztec, cs_assault, etc.

[Thrik]

It's crazy. I'll admit that I've played the MGS games a good three times each so I guess replays just embed it further. I can literally go through the entirety of those games in my head — kind of mad. Might have to do one for the site.

Or when the new forums go up with articles (fyi) we can steal the idea and make it a series of our own. L!OL!OL!LOL!!!!!!