Even '90s Nostalgia Can Become a Counter-Strike Map

I can attest, with intense embarrassment and pride, that I am old enough to know that the '90s were utterly amazing. It had Britpop, it had the best episodes of The Simpsons, it had Jurassic Park and Friends, it had N64s and Metal Gear, its cigarettes were cheap, its terrorists were lazy, and its community was far more socially galvanized due to primitive communication tools.

Oh wait, what was I supposed to be talking about? Oh yes: Gone Home is a spellbinding FPS that replaces guns with questions and swaps targets with clues. (Disclaimer: You don't literally fire questions at clues).

You play as a college student returning to her parents' home, only to find the house vacated without knowing why. I really can't go any further without spoiling, but that journey of discovery is certainly one you should take.

The lasting beauty of Gone Home is how it turns a first-person game into a tenderhearted exploration, laced with nostalgia and small remnants of a cherished childhood.

So, inevitably, some enterprising Counter-Strike: GO modder has recreated this '90s home into a multiplayer map, featuring corridor choke-points and death-trap basement tunnels.

"Your family is mysteriously missing again," reads the description for the map on Steam.

"But you can figure that out later. Right now you have more pressing issues to attend to, like the fact that your house is full of terrorists and some dude has been taken hostage. Rescue him by taking him to the garage where you can make a swift getaway on that old bike that's been sitting there for twenty years."

Take a look yourself in the video above. It's pretty funny.