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* ''[[Cyborg 009]]'' has shades of this, mainly in the Cyborgs' uniforms and their rayguns.
* ''[[Astro Boy]]'': Is the one of the first anime to use this aesthetic.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Weird Science by [[EC Comics]] had a lot of streamlined rocketships and cool futuristic tech, espacially Wally Wood's work.
* Flashbacks to Krypton in the ''[[Superman]]'' comics from the [[Golden Age]] through most of the [[Bronze Age]] maintained this look.
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* ''Spaceship Zero'' featured a retro-Space Opera setting where, for instance, there was no miniaturization, and bigger computers were always better. Partially deconstructed as well, as there were definite indications that underneath all that chrome was a decent amount of grit, causing one reviewer to refer to it as "pulp--with bathrooms."
* ''Realms of Mars'' from Exile Game Studio promises to be this for sword and planet, much as [[Hollow Earth Expedition]] harkened back to adventure pulps.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* One of the characters in Andrew Kepple's ''Goodbye Cruel World!'' accidentally turns the entire world into this by activating a non-[[wikipedia:Year 2000 problem|Y2K]]-compliant VCR and triggering the bug.
* ''[[Zap]]'' has a lot of aspects of this, especially in the spaceship design.
▲* Let's not forget [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buck.html Buck Godot - Zap Gun For Hire], which has a lovely ''[[Zeerust]]'' feel to it, and was published "late in the 20th century".
* ''[[Dresden Codak]]'' is in love with this trope, married it, and now has a house in the suburbs with two kids and a dog with it.
== New Media and Web ==
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