Someone out there has been confused because they thought they parked on the 25th level.
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2026
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Or the 52nd
I started looking at the top floors first and my brain just could not process that those were numbers. Not until I started at the bottom and worked my way up.
Must've really screwed you up when the second one you saw was "25".
Haha, yes this happened to me as well!
reminds me of a game I used to play
Reminds me of a Simpsons episode
Whoah, I wonder if the animator played Zillion. The Simpsons were on The Tracey Ullman show starting the same year Zillion was released.
Thank goodness.
I get all the others, but the 4 is messing with my head.
Yeah, not sure what’s up with 4
What is it called?
OMG I WAS GONNA SAY THE SAME THING BUT I THOUGHT NO ONE WOULD HAVE A CLUE WHAT I WAS TAKING ABOUT!!!!! I've never met anyone in real life or online who ever heard of Zillion!
Yeah, I’ve never seen it mentioned ever either.
Funny thing is it took until I played it on an emulator to realize that the code symbols were just the numbers 1, 2, 3… mirrored. When I was a kid and first played it, I used to have names for the shapes they made Like M, Heart, 8, U, Bottle…
TIL
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When I was a kid I used to doodle a 4 with a mirrored 4 like this and make a little spaceship. This pleases me
It pisses me off so much that 4 and 6 are backwards.
They're not though. Read from left to right they're oriented correctly. It's the other floors that are backwards when read left to right
I feel like the majority orientation determines the right orientation.
Not if you look outside from within the building.
.. They're symmetrical, they look the same from both directions.
But 4 and 6 are read edge-in, and the others are read middle-out. The mirroring is inconsistent.
Yes, but looking at them from the inside wouldn't change that.
No, each pair looks the same whether you’re viewing them while standing inside or out on the street.
To read the numbers so that they are correctly oriented, you’d read from the middle of a given pair outward for 1, 2, 3, and 5. But to read 4 and 6, you’d read from the edge inwards.
Or (viewing from outside or inside) the second number in the pair is not reversed for 1, 2, 3, and 5. The first number is not reversed for 4 and 6.
I'm perfectly aware of all of this, this has nothing to do with my comment.
Damn, you’re right. I misread what you wrote. I thought you were asking if it would be different from the inside. But that’s clearly not what you wrote.
No worries! I appreciate the acknowledgement :)
Ah yes you're right. I was thinking about the numbers individually.
Oh, very interesting point. Either way some of them are backwards which is a shame for a cool design idea like this
Yeah cool design nevertheless. Found some pictures from within, they picked one of the 'wrong' floors for those shots, hehe: https://www.sosbrutalism.org/cms/18741632
These are a bit fun, but in all honesty this parking garage needs to be torn down and replaced with something actually useful
Sooooo what do you propose for all the vehicles inside of it? Parking garages are not cheap, which means there was a significant need for parking spaces.
Sooooo what do you propose for all the vehicles inside of it?
Anyone parking there has a serious surplus of money - it costs €13/hour to park there.
What they should do is to keep their cars at home and take transit like literally everyone else is doing. Mind you that this is one block from the Stockholm's central plaza, served by Stockholm Central station, i.e the place that is best served by transit in the entire country.
Rich people vehicle storage is an exceedingly poor land use for such a place.
Parking garages are not cheap, which means there was a significant need for parking spaces.
It was built in the 60s when everyone in the country had highway psychosis. We've grown past the illusion that everyone should be taking their car everywhere and get to store it everywhere, especially in dense city environments.
If you didn't say what they represent, I'd never of guessed