There's a generation of Edinburgh locals that would love a chance to visit the city's lost leisure pool Leith Waterworld again, and they still can - in the digital world, at least.
A 3D rendered version of the legendary swimming pool, which opened in the '90s, but unfortunately closed for good back in 2012, appears as a playable map in an online shooter called Trouble in Terrorist Town.
Highly-regarded by the online gaming community, the massively popular downloadable map, which was created by local games developer Sam Serrels, uses the Source engine, which powered hit video games in the 2000s, such as Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike.
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Leith Waterworld's numerous pools, flumes, water slides, bridges and even changing rooms, staff areas, and vending machines have all been faithfully recreated in the map, which has been available since 2010 when the pool was still in operation.
Of course, this being a game, many of the objects have a playable purpose. While you can slide down flumes and into the pool in the game, two of the the waterslides have been created as 'traitor detectors', and a sound plays whenever a player goes down either slide.
Downloadable from Steam and Google Play as 'ttt_waterworld', the Leith Waterworld level is classed as a small/medium map and can be played by up to 10 players at any one time.
With the map now being a few years old, many members of the online gaming community have commented about how nostalgic it makes them feel when they play it. However, there are some gamers out there who are getting a double dose of nostalgia, mixed with chlorine.
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"This is straight up the leisure centre I went to as a kid," wrote SpaceyBagels on a Reddit thread.
Scrumplex added: "This map is actually based off of a real place. Just look up 'Leith Waterworld'. It sadly closed in 2012."
Writing on YouTube, Green Ghoul said: "As someone with memories of the real Waterworld, no other water park can replace it.
"It was a place I will never forget and a family outing that sadly will never be experienced again outside the famous Gmod map to remember it by."
Another YouTuber said: "I went to this place, I walked past it for the last 17 years of my life going to school. I didn't think it would be THAT Water World but it is! I went to this place when I was little and I never knew it was such a popular Gmod map. So cool."
Not everyone has pleasant memories of the real Leith Waterworld site, mind you.
HampaDoesntDie wrote: "Wait, this was based on Leith Waterworld? I almost f*****g drowned there when I was a kid LMAO."
Commenting on the Steam Workshop site, Oshul said: "I would like to note that I went to the soft play this place turned into as a kid and smashed my head on an exposed metal bar. They gave me a 'don't sue us' banana plush and now there's extra padding on it."
Trouble in Terrorist Town centres around a group of terrorists, some of which are traitors working for an external intelligence agency. Both the traitors and terrorists must find a way to wipe one another out.
Often abbreviated as 'TTT', Trouble in Terrorist Town is essentially a mode that appears in the 2006 sandbox physics game Garry's Mod, developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Valve, the creators of the Half-Life series.
As such, the graphics and textures are beginning to look a little dated - and yet tens of thousands of gamers from around the globe continue to play Trouble in Terrorist Town each month, according to Steam statistics.
And, according to stats sent in to us by creator Sam Serrels, to date more than 1.2 million people have 'gone for a swim' in the virtual Leith Waterworld.
What this means is that while the real-life Leith Waterworld - which is now a soft play centre - has sadly bitten the dust, the pool's spirit lives on - and you don't even need to get your hair wet or find a spare pound coin for the lockers.
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