{"id":641,"date":"2015-05-08T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2015-05-08T11:18:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:18:43","slug":"maps-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/2015\/05\/maps-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was trying to clean up my Inbox and found an e-mail from a month ago that I had somehow missed previously. I’m really glad I didn’t delete it as it contained a surprise that put a smile on my face. It’s in relation to some video game maps I made back in the 80’s. I’ll just reprint the e-mail below:<\/p>\n

Hi there,<\/p>\n

I just wanted to share with you a picture of something I’ve kept for nearly 30 years.\u00a0 My brother and I played Ultima IV back in ’86, and your map files were given to me by a friend in high school.\u00a0 Well, I printed them on our dot-matrix printer and spent several days actually coloring each character (you can see I kind of gave up being accurate on the ocean tiles).<\/p>\n

Over the years I’ve googled The Red Pirate without success, just to see if I could find who made those, and I finally discovered your page last week.\u00a0 I pulled my map out of storage, laid it out on the floor and took a picture of it for you to enjoy.<\/p>\n

Thanks for the memories!<\/p>\n

Ken<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Thank you for writing and sending the photo, it was really fun to see.<\/p>\n

Anyone else still have your printouts stashed away? E-mail<\/a> me your story and a photo and you might see it here on my blog.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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