help me brainstorm elements for a 1980s style game to surprise my players with
PS - while I generally liked the video game Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon I thought it delved more into parody than pastiche. I kind of want to avoid super over the top stuff. I want there still to be an emotional core that resonates with the player rather than just a dog pile of pop culture jokes
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robocop, drive, aliens, terminator, the wizard, TRON, and Kung Fury are recommended watchings for that 80s feel
Kung Fury was one of the worst things I've ever watched
i disagree
the wizard isnt very good, but it is still a VERY 80s movie
Honestly I Agree... but it was one of the best worst things I've ever watched.
They're making a second one.
Quintessential things from 1980s fiction:
>shurikens
>DeLorean
>katana
>uzis
>neon
>corrupt corporations
>corrupt CEO
>jaded, renegade cops
>synth pop
>Miami
>AK 47
>M16/M4/CAR 15 "Commando"
>buff as fuck white dudes
>pastel coloured clothing
>beautiful sunsets
>palm trees
>Malibu
>small fictional Central American countries lead by a dictator
>big hair
What else am I missing?
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>CRT monitors
>Bulky electronics.
>COCAINE!!
>A lack of irony.
>COCAINE!!
>8-bit computers
>casette tapes
>skateboarding without helmets
>JUST SAY NO
>big hair
>saxophones
>awful dance moves
>boomboxes
>awful dance moves
son, i gotta stop you right there, they had the most righteous of dance moves
For a very low key 80s idea try Stranger Things, or any of the other 80s Stephen King films
Kung Fury is terrible, ugly, both edgy and lame at the same time, and poorly written.
truely the pinnacle of "geek" movies like Iron Sky, Sharknado and all that shit that "geeks" find "excellent"
The other thing that has to be understood about the 1980's, is that everyone had a vague sense they were under a death sentence. One day there was going to be a war, that war would progress to the launching of missiles, and everyone was going to die.
There were top 40 hits about nuclear war FFS.
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Actually this whole list is quite bad. You won't get any 80's feel from aliens, terminator and the wizard.
What you need to watch is ACTUAL movies from the 80's : Flashdance, Blood Sports, Rocky, Staying Alive, Top Gun, The Warriors, Ghostbusters, the He-Man movie.
You can also watch City Hunter and Cat's Eyes
>all that shit that "geeks" find "excellent"
no one finds them excellent, they are entertaining because of how bad they are
I grew up in the 80's. It sucked. The 90's was when it got good. Great economy, great politics, great tv shows. The USSR was no more. Nukes were being dismantled. The First Gulf War seemed like the UN finally was going to workout fine. Space probes were launched. It seems like humanity was getting it together. Then 9/11 happened.
>I grew up in the 80's. It sucked. The 90's was when it got good.
Preach it. The 90's were quite good.
I mean, shit, they kicked off the decade with tearing down the wall. Night and fucking day with the 80's.
Sounds like you want some Straight to VHS.
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I keep thinking of something my German teacher said. (She would no doubt have taken this line as an opportunity to rant at me about how sloppy English was. You have no idea if she was a German teacher or a teacher of the German language)
"The fall of the Berlin wall was a tragedy. Everything leaned against it, and was stable. Once they took down the wall, everything fell apart."
I can't help but thing of the 90's as being like the roaring 20's. A great time to be alive, but everyone completely failed to deal with what was on the horizon, and the consequences what had just gone down.
The 80's at least have a justification. The 90's were where everyone failed.
You want inspiration from the 1980s:
Miami Vice
Black Rain
Scarface
The Thing
Colors
War Games
Die Hard
Beverly Hills Cop
Rambo: First Blood
Rambo: First Blood Part 2
Cobra
Wall Street
Commando
Raw Deal
Red Heat
Red Scorpion
The Punisher
Tango and Cash
Cocktail
Top Gun
Nighthawks
The Delta Force
Missing in Action 1 & 2
Lone Wolf McQuade
Invasion USA
Rain Man
Lethal Weapon
American Ninja 1 & 2
Rocky 1 to 5
The Principal
Risky Business
Iron Eagle
Maniac Cop
Friday the 13th
Poltergeist
Hellraiser
Blue Steel
Evil Dead
Halloween 2 to 4
They Live!
The Fog
Hah! That's certainly one way to view it.
And considering the decade ALSO kicked off with Desert Storm, not entirely inaccurate. Though I have a hard time distancing myself from things and looking at that time period with any objectivity.
Also, let's not forget that most people here didn't experience life during the 80s. At best they were 14 when the 80s ended. They didn't go clubbing, didn't snort coke with yuppies, didn't drive a Ferrari Testarossa. They had to be back home at eight because they had school the next day.
There's a (probably apocryphal) anecdote about a Chinese Premier being asked in the 60's what he thought about the effects of the French Revolution. He's supposed to have responded: "It's too early to tell".
Hell, even today people are arguing over the Civil War. How the fuck can we have a handle on the 1990's, when the 1860's are still a matter of some dispute?
If you wanted cocaine, you should have posted that reshot version of that scene from that fan movie "Our Robocop Remake"
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True 80s experience!
Honestly this is all someone would need
You and your German teacher are both very arrogant and very stupid.
Look up Millenium's Edge.
Turbo Kid!
Yeah but that's a general cold war thing if anything, the theme of nuclear war was more pronounced in the 50s.
Why do you feel the need to make baseless assumptions bout people based on the media they consume? Do you think liking "good" things makes you superior by proxy?
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