Power Pete / Mighty Mike Map

Who played Macintosh games in 1995? I did, and thought Power Pete was state of the art! (Why the game had two names? IDK) I didn’t have many computer games, and had to go to my neighbors to get my gaming fill. But this one stuck with me. So much so that I replayed it this past weekend. What a blast. Started thinking about maps (as I tend to do) and how I could possibly screen grab and stitch together a map of the first level. Easy enough, took me a day. So for anyone looney enough to come across Power Pete in this day and age, and is looking for a map of the easiest level, please find this website with the hashtags below.

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Minecraft Endgame

I started Minecraft on an Xbox360, I don’t know how many years ago. While I was playing, I was interested to see what my impact would be on the world, the whole time plying Peaceful Survivor mode. In a game where you can literally move mountains, what would I do to make this map my own? So I played the same map for years and years. I missed out on some fun updates, but seeing the toll my building took on the world, that’s an interesting experience.

This was one of my first buildings. Just had to make shelter, maybe dig some tunnels. Because how crazy is it that you can dig tunnels in a game?!?

Of course later came Croft Manor, that giant beast in the background.

Next thing I did was build a permanent staircase as high as it would allow… and then dig it down into the bedrock.

In the North-East corner of my map was a tiny jungle biomed island. The trees used to grow all the way up to the glass dome, but when I needed that red wood fast, I replaced it. Then I build the train rails that would connect it to all of my manors.

While reading Akira, I thought it would be a fun idea to build a large industrial underground system. This subway runs across the whole map.

… But at what costs?! After building three mega projects, all that sandstone and glass had to come from somewhere. I nearly destroyed the larger of my two deserts.

These hills used to be covered with trees, but when your manors call for spruce wood…

And when you’re downright desperate for ore, at the base of my staircase, I dug.

Minecraft Tutorial level

I thought I lost this! Thank goodness I didn’t because I spent some time building that Mayan Pyramid. Fair enough, I used Creative Mode.

Also, one of my first Minecraft structures was building a little house inside a floating mountain.

The pyramid was so large, whilst inside, the atmosphere could illuminate it’s figure.
(That’s the weirdest sentence I’ve ever written.)

Fallout 4

Bethesda Softworks always make a great game you can really sink your teeth into. Once they added the possibility of crafting your own hideout, well that’s just asking for trouble. In a world plagued by radioactive monstrosities, you need proper protection. I give you…

The ACORN!
(formally known as the igloo)

To see a short walkthrough, check out the Twitter link below.
https://twitter.com/Milk5hakespeare/status/1046776358263767041

Surrounded by turret guns. Nobody makes it up those stairs!

Upon entering the Acorn, take the lift down into the Acorn proper. Just watch out for the ring of turrets on the top level.

The 3rd floor is reserved for relaxation. Beds, sitting areas, and look! A couple magazine racks!

The 2nd floor is the merchants floor. Anything you need to buy or sell, you’ll find here.

The 1st, and largest floor, home to the gymnasium, work shop, molecular beam emitter, and a pool table!

In the basement, you’ll find all the food and water you’ll ever need. Not to mention some furry friends.

Power Armor collection

Just playing around.

Little bit about me, I’m Institute, through and through. The pursuit of knowledge above all! I don’t agree with their treatment of Synths, but now that I’m in charge, I hope to change things.

Early plans, before I realized I needed a basement for food and water.

I have no earthly idea why I recreated the Fallout 4 map to scale in pencil. But it is perfectly to scale.

How much space did the Institute take up? Does that passage in the FEV lab link up to the Bioscience room in a specially correct way? No. Until Bethesda games find a way around loading, rooms won’t line up correctly.

I’m also a fan of Fallout Shelter, mainly due to my being a fan of Sim Tower.

Animal Crossing

Welcome to Honeydew! To visit, use the Dream Address 5D00-0012-30ED

Welcome to Honeydew, home to Mayor Shakes

A map of Honeydew! Is that the Town’s name spelled out in flowers?…

IT IS! Honeydew spelled out in pixilated roses.

Heading towards the Plaza?

Or maybe you’re going to Mainstreet?

Follow the signs wherever you need go!

In Honeydew, you’ll always know how to get to where you’re headed

Enjoy our scenic walking paths

Breath in that fresh Fall air

Take a rest at our scenic overlook

Say hello to the locals in our residential neighborhood

Maybe you’d like to check out our shopping district

Take a stop at the recreation center, and pose as one of four comic character’s the Mayor has created

Have a night under the stars in our campsite (Don’t you just love it when the tents match the town color scheme?)

Enjoy our historical lighthouse

Feel free to stop on by the Mayor’s home

Observe the Mayor’s collection of oddities …

The music room …

The library …

The spa …

Gaze at the stars in the master bedroom

Don't get lost or you might end up in the secret laboratory!

Enjoy many of our museum’s exhibits …

… including not one …

… but two Nintendo rooms!

Before you leave, treat yourself to some high fashion at the Able Sisters (That first row is based on a few of my actual shirts)

And here’s a graphed out map of Honeydew

My blueprint of the Honeydew tile

(It’s upside-down!)

Preliminary pixel plans for signs

Even MORE preliminary pixel plans

Wanna get rich quick? There are much better guides online. But enjoy this fishing chart.

Fun fact, my wife and I planned a ceremony and got “married” in her town of Treebon. (We dressed up and took a screenshot under her flower arch)

The Sims

It was the year 2000. The y2k bug hadn’t devastated the world as we had once thought. Sega was still a thing. Computer games were all the rage, and some people wanted nothing more than to settle down into a simple, simulated life. I was one of those people. But what about those fancy jobs? What paid the most? What required the most skills? What gave you cool outfits and carpools? I had to know. And this was before the day and age of a SimWiki, so in order to find this out for myself, I just had to experiment and go through countless job lines. What fun to be a kid with time.

If you’re interested in my Sims version of Croft Manor, check it out HERE!

Anyone who knows this layout knows the Goth family for sure.

Payday 2

This game could get aggravating. I’d get teamed up with some lunatic who goes in guns blazing, while I’m whispering in through locked doors like aghost. Blown covers after the 7th try, I’m putting this game away for a month.

That being said, before I had played a dozen or so rounds, there was a heart pounding excitement to this game. Sweat dripping patience as the drill slowly ground it’s way into a vault. The pedestrian, tied up in the corner. Every second, inching by … and then the alarm pops, the music crescendos, you gotta bag up your loot and make it to the van before they come… Because it’s about to go down hard.

Mission wise, If it’s not stealth, it’s IMPOSSIBLE on the hardest setting. And if it’s one of the bigger stealth missions, it was IMPOSSIBLE to maintain stealth throughout.

The Nightclub

The Diamond store

The Jewelry store

Assorted

Classic. The first popular FPS.

Not video game related, but something interesting.

I grew up in rural Vermont. Without a lot of neighborly kids to hang out with, I would spend my time building a toy town in my room, and later the attic. As years went by, the town developed buildings, newspapers, a postal service, and even a currency. The Thousand dollar bill had pictures of the Shredder and his warehouse on the front and back.

Civilization 5 world map on the largest map setting. I like to start in the Americas, playing as the Mayans, and fending off the Spanish, or anybody else that wants to “discover the new world.”

The tunnel system in the Selenitic Age was claustrophobic, disorienting, and lonely. It could easily have been half the size. I furiously tried to make sense of it, but as soon as you finish, why spend time refining your map?

Riven, the sequel to Myst. Way more difficult to puzzle through than Myst, but the world and cultures they created were unforgettable.

Who has actually completed Final Fantasy VII? Some games are too big.

GTA Vice City was one of the first games where the world would change the more you played. Your hotel room would acquire purely ornamental items depending on which missions you completed. I attempted to list out when and what changed.

Also, here are some Level Save codes for the first GEX game. LOVED that game.

Not video game related, but hey, I have other interests. Like finding out how tall a human scaled lego figure might be. The answer; 13 bricks.

The Universe's Timeline

I’m a visual person. I see time as a shape. How close were events in history? Gimme a ruler. But with the bulk of human history happening in the last few thousand years (out of 13,700,000,000), how do you represent that timetable accurately? With the power on 10!
Note: This was made in 2016. Jono and Audrey are nerdy friends who dug this idea.