When I played with chalk as a kid, I was happy to just make a circle, or if I was feeling especially creative, a triangle. Luckily, people far more talented than me have taken the colorful sticks and used them to create impressive works of gaming-themed art.

The gallery below features characters and worlds from some of the most popular video games (including titles from Nintendo’s noteworthy The Legend of Zelda series, the physics-breaking Portal, and the block-falling puzzler Tetris) brought to life thanks to the power of chalk.