Explore your home city like it's a Nintendo game
Who needs super accurate Google Maps or perfectly handy physical maps when you can have Nintendo?
A new interactive map designed by Brett Camper allows you to explore the city of San Francisco as if it's a Nintendo game. Zoom in and see your favorite neighborhoods and landmarks in perfectly pixelated form. Enjoy nostalgic Nintendo iconography without pesky unidentified mushrooms getting in your way.
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Tour your home neighborhood in glorious 8-bit style.
San Francisco is the latest in Camper's Nintendo-inspired maps. Non-Bay area residents can also enjoy Camper's models of New York, Washington D.C., London, Kyoto, Seattle, and others.
"The 8-Bit Cities project, which started with 8-Bit NYC, is an attempt to to make the city feel foreign yet familiar, smashing together two culturally common models of space: the lo-fi overhead world maps of 1980s role playing and adventure games, and the geographically accurate data that drives today's web maps and GPS navigation," Camper writes on his website.
It's nostalgic, it's imaginative, and strangest of all: it's accurate.
WTF.
Check out more of Camper's awesome maps here on his website.
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Topics Nintendo
Heather was the Web Trends reporter at Mashable NYC. Prior to joining Mashable, Heather wrote regularly for UPROXX and GOOD Magazine, was published in The Daily Dot and VICE, and had her work featured in Entertainment Weekly, Jezebel, Mic, and Gawker. She loves small terrible dogs and responsible driving. Follow her on Twitter @wear_a_helmet.
