VGMaps.com Hosts Over 50,000 Maps for Classic Video Games

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VGMaps.com, also known as The Video Game Atlas, currently hosts over 50,000 maps covering more than 3,400 games across nearly 60 different platforms. Whether you’re looking for an old NES dungeon layout, a hidden area in a forgotten PlayStation title, or a complete overworld map from a retro RPG, there’s a good chance someone on the site has already stitched it together.

The project originally began back in 2002 when Jonathan Leung launched the website shortly after graduating from university. Like a lot of retro gaming fans, he was inspired by the detailed maps that used to appear in magazines such as Nintendo Power during the NES and Super Nintendo era.

His first experiments involved manually stitching together screenshots from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, starting with the Lost Woods and eventually expanding into larger sections of the game world.

What started as a small personal hobby unexpectedly grew into one of the internet’s most impressive gaming preservation archives. According to Jonathan himself, the site was never really expected to last this long, but more than 24 years later, contributors are still actively creating and submitting maps from both classic and modern games.

One of the reasons VGMaps.com stands out is its focus on “screenshot maps.” Instead of simple drawings or rough layouts, most maps are carefully assembled directly from in-game visuals, cleaned up and stitched together piece by piece. The process can take an incredible amount of patience, especially for larger RPGs or platformers with hidden areas and layered environments.