Comments on: Subway station decorated with pixelart inspired by 8-bit games

By: Maxim Muchkaev

Maxim Muchkaev — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:22:00 +0000

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By: CountZero

CountZero — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:52:00 +0000

Love it. Looks really fresh and clean, something of a contradiction when it’s a railway station. And if the taggers leave it alone, so much the better.

By: Ramone

Ramone — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:12:00 +0000

A nerd blessing for those who dream of pixels in bathroom tiles. :)

By: moz moz

moz moz — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:43:00 +0000

Pretty gutsy to include a bomb icon in a subway station. That kinna thing would never fly in the land of the free, home of the brave.

By: GS Design

GS Design — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:40:00 +0000

Love it! We created a pixelart homage to Megaman in our firm – you can see an image here: http://www.gsdesign.com/about/space

By: Ooe R

Ooe R — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:36:00 +0000

I went to and from the subway station for 3 years during high school. The station is namned “Thorildsplan” and was repainted in 2008.

Fun fact: Before the 8-bit paint job, the station featured poetry from a largely unknown and largely worthless 19th century poet. The walls were repeatedly sprayed with grafitti.
After the repaint, the grafitti artists left it alone. I guess the only way to stop grafitti is with pop culture art?

By: thatbob

thatbob — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:26:00 +0000

It’s all fun and games until someone gets a concussion looking for hidden coin blocks!

By: Drabula

Drabula — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:51:00 +0000

yet another reason to love stockholm

By: semiotix

semiotix — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:51:00 +0000

Two suggestions. First, they really need to put a Mario-style “?” block on one of the walls, just above head-level for the average commuter.

Second, for the underground portion of the station, they need to play the “underground” music (cf. Super Mario Bros., World 1-2 et alia).

By: robotnik

robotnik — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:46:00 +0000

Sort of funny that Sweden produced both this and the works of Stieg Larsson.

By: Billy Hale

Billy Hale — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:37:00 +0000

File under: Got Old, Real Quick

By: ChurchTucker

ChurchTucker — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:37:00 +0000

I wonder if they cleared the copyrights.

By: Michael Polo

Michael Polo — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:22:00 +0000

Great, now I have an urge to play WonderBoy…