The Spirit of Christmas by Xmastree - xmas showcase day 25
2The Spirit of Christmas by XmasTree - 25 Dec 2011
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60BYZIWIy-0z5b9ts18zwIeM7pe-Z53b
https://tmuf.exchange/trackshow/4030145
The final track of the xmas showcase, since I began this series, this one was set to be the one for day 25.
On this day 11 years ago, Ken Hardesty, also known as Xmastree, former playpal online admin and well admired and respected member of the tmu community, released his last of his 540 tracks in tmx. He passed away a few months later leaving us with a legacy of fun and unique tracks over his 5 year old tmu career.
More than his unique style of building where he didn't usually played by the rules and just went for what his heart desired, what we lost in March 10th, 2012 was a friend, a comrade and someone who many of us hold near to our hearts and who will allways be missed.
0:00 Intro
0:45 Ingame
1:37 Replay
The main reason on why I began this series in 2014 and then revived in 2021 was mostly because how often I was seeing many of these tracks with custom ingame material become unplayable as years go by and many great mappers left the game went on to follow their lives, but unfortunately, as this being part of life, there's cases where we lose more than a mapper who made the effort of transmiting his passion and work towards the lucky player who stumbled across his work, we lose his entire work overall and what he's done and what he left us with, will no longer work, will no longer be playable and nobody else will ever have the chance to play it.
I hope you enjoyed our xmas showcase special, I'm glad I made it possible to showcase these great and sometimes underrated tracks over the course of this month.
I guess that's it, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone watching and their families, see ya next year for more classic trackmania content :)
Special thanks to our members:
- RadPL for most of his replays, possible to record thanks to the fantastic TM interface program made by donadingo
- VJ Project for his great set of christmas thematic skins, I like when the ingame skin matches the story
- Brainshaker who developed a fantastic tool that helped me in the search of missing files for every track
- Hotseason, Wraith and Nibor for providing some material of some of the tracks and also giving me some great suggestions
Link for VJ Project skins
https://maniapark.com/search/all?q=author%3AVjmotors&view=tiles
http://vjproject90.blogspot.com/
Join our discord if you want to try these great hidden gems by yourself :)
https://discord.gg/F3EmQ69cFN
More classic trackmania content
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60BYZIWIy-0z5b9ts18zwIeM7pe-Z53b
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