On behalf of the UAC, welcome to Saskatoon. This facility serves as a three bedroom, two bathroom bungalow…
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Found by: Jade. Slight explanation here.
Loveliest comment, by Dominic: The hallway looks like something out a cartoon where characters run in and out of different doorways. Therefore, it is awesome.
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No amazing photoshop skills?
I thought the first thing you did when I saw these pics, but with one of these around the corner:
http://l33tch1k.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/doom.jpg
Ooooh… if I get a few spare minutes today…
It’s “excellent”, Steven. “Excellent photoshop skills.”
Yeeeeep. With my inexplicable brick wall in the dining room and unfinished (!!) wood planks lining the living room walls, one of these days my house will be featured here.
Even I don’t have a lava floor, though.
She may be referring to how perfectly square everything is, though, like in the video game. That’s what I assumed, anyway.
Anyone remember that screen saver that came with Windows back in the day (think Windows 95)? Because it has been recreated. Here.
Yep, I thought the same.
Oooo I haven’t thought of that in years, but I remember! It was kind of hypnotizing, and disorienting when you “flipped’ and started running on the ceiling.
http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/20262000/ngbbs4aeb7db7097f3.jpg
What happened to grandpa? We’ve lost him again in the decor. All that remains is his cane propped up against that brick papered support column.
Yes! I was looking for one of those brown, spiky, red-eyed raptor/demon things too! They would fit perfectly!
I am VERY BAD at playing those kinds of games. I get caught up in the silliest details. In Doom, I discovered that if I ran my character into a wall, he would go, “Uhn!” I found that amusing enough that I wasted some time (and a few lives) scraping his shoulder against the wall, so he would walk along going, “Uhn! Uhn! Uhn! Uhn!” Less amusing, but also diverting, was the question of why the brown spiky guys made a noise that sounded like, “whick-er-whick” when they were preparing to jump out at “Uhn!”-guy.
Once I actually played, I was ENTIRELY distracted at the end of the first level, when I ran into that ginormous, horned demon guy. “Whoa, whoa, whoa! HOW is he generating that fireball?!? That looks obscene!” (To which my friend responded, “Well, he IS a horned demon guy, after all…”)
The 80′s were definitely weird times for video games.
A giant ape grasps the fundamental knowledge to be able to use modern technology to capture a dumb blonde who apparently has ties to a royal family, and it’s up to a plumber to scaffold a building under construction that’s overly abundant in flammable objest and minimal safety codes.
Or how about this one? A mass of aliens with OCD having to count their movements left and right on their way down to invade Earth is being defended by a literal Army of One.
Ah, the 80′s.
Doom was the 90s.
Oh! Oh! I forgot! My friend got into trying to build new levels for Doom!
“Insert random Object? Y/N”
“Brick texture? Y/N”
One of the coolest ‘shop treatments of a listing yet
Heck, if I bought the place I’d be tempted to make “life-size” versions of the characters and place them around the floor *grins*.
Comes with several spacious monster closets*, for every room in the house!
(*Nerd explination: “monster closet” is the term for an otherwise tiny and pointless room that exists only for monsters to appear in as soon as you hit a switch/walk over a point/turn your back/etc. Originated in Doom, no less!)
I think I know this level. There is a hidden switch behind the counter that causes the couch to drop away revealing a passage containing some more imps, a chaingun, and the yellow key. Kill the imps, and get the chaingun and the yellow key. Next, go back through the archway, open the yellow door, and take out the pinky demons and the cacodemon. The exit is at the top of the steps
FTW!!!!!!!!!
I love this comment.
This is my new favorite post from this blog. I can’t find any other words. It makes me so happy.
I finally figured it out – the real-world explanation. This house has a finished basement. At first I thought they had covered up all the windows, but no.
This really does take some thinking if you’re from around here, because nobody has a cellar or basement in North Texas, so a house with all this unexplained weird extra space really is strange.
The hallway looks like something out a cartoon where characters run in and out of different doorways. Therefore, it is awesome.
Rooby rooby roo!!
My first thought was that it could easily be converted into something very much like the new Lovely Listings HQ from a while ago. The carpet is already there, all it needs is a few padded vinyl bars and lots and lots of cut glass decanters and stuff. And a few windows, and fewer monsters.
Lovely Listing needs a way to favorite, like most of the other sites on chzbrgr network – this would so be my favorite favorite. This is awesome.
It seems U.A.C. has developed a time portal. At this point in it’s development it only has the capability to take you back to suburban Saskatoon circa 1974.
(I’m sure if I look at the pictures closely enough I’ll see stubby bottles of beer in the background)
The real win here is that when you finally kill all the aliens and find the exit, you are not only transported out of this basement ‘rec’ room, you are also teleported out of Saskatoon… (sorry, Saskatoon).
Getting out of Saskatoon is an admirable goal for anyone.
I grew up in Saskatoon and this kind of deep, weird basement is really common there. I’ve actually seen this kind of wood panelling, brick wallpaper, and the sad little wet bar on display here – although weldom all at once. I haven’t seen that weird archway door, but it doesn’t suprise me.
Ah Saskatoon, the land that time forgot!
Yessss… the same weirdness can be found in basements all over western Canada I’m afraid.
I’m also afraid to say that I highly suspect that the “brick” is not in fact brick at all, but rather faux “brick” panelling… Seen it. Lived it. Ashamed to admit it.
The music started playing in my head the moment I read the listing title:
Looks quite Wolfenstein to me…
GOO-ten tag!
The games are related!
In more than 1 way.
lmao! this place is like up the block from where i lived years ago
Clearly this is some kind of torture room. They even have their ‘Cane of Doom’ leaning against the wall. Beware.
****!
CHECK YOUR CORNERS!
KILL EM ALL!
Okay, I LITERALLY LOL’d at that. Almost makes me wish I’d played that game.