Mapstalgia challenges you to think of a game that you think is seared into your brain forever, and to sit down and actually draw out a map of an area of it from memory - a feat that's a lot more difficult than it sounds. I got a submission to it put up today, and thought I'd repost it here because ironically it'll get more feedback on a personal Livejournal compared to a popular Tumblr.

Prince of Persia Level 1 (An Approximate Guide)

To repeat what I said in the comments... it wasn't long after I drew the introductory screens of the first level of Prince of Persia before I realized that I could not remember what the first level of Prince of Persia looked like.

The game has a secret little route that you can use near the start to climb over the first guard and exit the level without getting the sword first - once I discovered that, I never went the long way again, so most of this is from what I can scrape together of my memory when I played it in very early childhood. Even taking that into account, it’s full of alternative pathways and pointless rooms that you never visit once you know the route - there’s a whole floor down below the main level, which I’ve mostly had to leave out of this drawing.