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{{trope}}
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Sometimes media are produced in an intentionally old-fashioned style, designed with the intentional appearance of being decades older than is actually the case.
Whereas [[Steampunk]] involves a ''setting'' that is faux-retro, this trope is entirely one of [[Painting the Fourth Wall|how the fourth wall is painted]]—entirely stylistic, in other words. Sound is intentionally scratchy, marks of damaged reel, and faded appearance are common in Film or television. Some films go out of their ways to open with studio [[Vanity Plate|vanity plates]] pulled directly from the era that they depict (See [[Logo Joke]] for that).
'''Retraux''' may involve [[Deliberately Monochrome]], [[Antiquated Linguistics]], or [[Silence Is Golden]]. If it's a supposedly past speculation about [[The Future]] or [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] (i.e., the present), will inevitably invoke [[Zeerust]] or [[Raygun Gothic]]. If it's a [[Show Within a Show]], it may include [[Stylistic Suck]].
In video games, retraux frequently arises (incidentally or deliberately) in freeware games and other small-scale productions for practical reasons—pixelated sprites and backgrounds and [[Chiptune]] music tend not to be as prohibitively time-consuming and difficult to make as quality 3D assets and orchestral performances on quality acoustic instruments. Indie Gaming and [[Retro Gaming]] go hand in hand. Low-resolution sprites are also common starting from mid 2000s even in flash games due to low memory consumption and being easier to make accurate hitboxes.
Compare [[George Lucas Throwback]], where a production is made evoking old-style works but with modern production values (in contrast, something that's Retraux can be mistaken for an ''actual'' old-style production). When the work is produced in a ''format'' suitable for the era, it becomes [[Old Format, New Work]]. Can overlap with [[Newer Than They Think]] when done especially well. See also [[Retraux Flashback]]
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
== Anime ==▼
* ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico|Gekiganger]] [[Gekiganger 3|3]]''. (More so in the actual show than in the [[OVA]].)
** Interestingly enough, according to [[Word of God]], despite its 1970s-esque appearance, it was actually made in the 2090s, which means it's an example of this even ''in-story''.
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* The [[ADV Films]] trailer for ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' has narration mimicking the style of voice-over used on old-fashioned newsreels. (However, the anime itself doesn't use many Retraux effects outside of a few scenes in the opening and the grainy episode title cards and eyecatches.)
* ''[[Airmaster]]'' - The anime version ran from 2003-2004 but wouldn't look out of place in early 90s. It's probably an [[Affectionate Parody]].
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' intentionally uses a drawing style and character design reminiscent of anime from the 1970s, despite being made in 1998. The
* Mostly averted in ''[[Baccano!]]!'', but in a scene where a character explains his world view that the world exists for his amusement, the show [[Painting the Fourth Wall|briefly looks like a scratchy film with low-quality sound to mimic movies from the era.]] And like the ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' example above, the American trailer intentionally invokes film from this era by being [[Deliberately Monochrome]], using a "news reel" style narration and backed up by a tinny piano score similar to what a silent film would have.
* [[Kaiba]] looks like a sixties' children anime.
* In ''[[Lucky Star]]'', Meito Anisawa and the other Animate store employees are drawn in a style reminiscent of anime (especially [[Super Robot]] anime) that's some decades older than ''Lucky Star''. There's even a visual effect that makes their shaded areas be of non-uniform color tone and change their color tone slightly over time, simulating the look of cel animation.
* Many of the ''[[Gundam]]'' works set in the Universal Century deliberately try to maintain a consistent art style reminiscent of the 1980s, right down to the [[Eighties Hair]]. If you look closely, you'd notice that the characters of ''[[Gundam Unicorn]]'' wouldn't look out of place in ''[[Zeta Gundam]].''
* When Yuya's classmate finally gets [[A Day in the Limelight]] in ''[[Risky☆Safety]]'', the director chose to make the episode as a [[Silent Movie]] complete with inter-titles instead of hiring a voice actress for the character.
* In ''[[Your Name]]'', the flashbacks seen after {{spoiler|Taki drinks Mitsuha's ''kuchikamizake''}} have deliberate fuzziness, scan lines and other faux VHS effects.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
* It's not unknown for a flashback or 'never before told' story to be [[Retraux Flashback|drawn in the style of a certain time period]]. An excellent example is ''The Age of the Sentry'' miniseries, whose titular hero was supposedly Marvel's [[Superman]] [[Expy]] in the 1960s, but was forgotten by all of humanity until his "return" in 2000. The flashback scenes are drawn to resemble 1960s [[Jack Kirby]] and 1980s [[Frank Miller]]. The front cover even has a fake "Approved by the [[Comics Code|Cosmic Code]] Authority" logo.▼
▲== Comic Books ==
▲* It's not unknown for a flashback or 'never before told' story to be drawn in the style of a certain time period. An excellent example is ''The Age of the Sentry'' miniseries, whose titular hero was supposedly Marvel's [[Superman]] [[Expy]] in the 1960s, but was forgotten by all of humanity until his "return" in 2000. The flashback scenes are drawn to resemble 1960s [[Jack Kirby]] and 1980s [[Frank Miller]]. The front cover even has a fake "Approved by the [[Comics Code|Cosmic Code]] Authority" logo.
* [[Iron Man]] and [[Doctor Doom]] once travelled back in time to a New York City circa the Silver Age (thirty years earlier in real time, perhaps ten or twelve in terms of Earth-616 chronology). The art was drawn and colored to resemble the comic book art of that period.
* [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[
* The [[Milestone Celebration|25th anniversary]] (1983) ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' story had multiple segments that took place in pastiches of different parts of the Legion's history, using the original logos, original artists, and plot elements based on stories of the time. A weaker version of this was done for the 30th anniversary in 1988.
* The humorous one-shot ''[[Superman]]/[[Batman]]: World's Funnest'' featured the two [[Great Gazoo|magical imps]] Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite accidentally destroying countless alternate universes, most of them drawn in the style of a certain artist—Curt Swan, Sheldon Mayer, C. C. Beck, [[Jack Kirby]], Alex Ross, [[DCAU|Bruce Timm]] and so on.
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* As [[Deadpool]] features a lot of both meta-commentary and time travel, this tends to come up in his book. The best example is when he gets set into the past to ''Amazing Spiderman'' #47, and infiltrates himself into the story, ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' style.<ref>''Deadpool'' #11</ref> All the panels and dialogue are drawn in John Romita's style, and all the characters (except Deadpool and friends) talk like Stan Lee wrote them (indeed, enough panels are lifted from the original work that Romita and Lee are credited as co-authors.) Seeing the modern [[Meta Guy]] Deadpool interact with the comics-code Spiderman story is a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
** In case you're wondering why specifically Spider-Man, it's because Deadpool's costume bears no small resemblance to that of the ol' Webhead, meaning it was a snap to redraw Spidey as 'Pool.
** The ''Flashbacks'' issues are all about this, as they all involve Deadpool in various eras of Marvel history and drawn in the styles of the authors being parodied, be it emulating the styles of [[Jack Kirby]] or [[Rob Liefeld]]. The only constant amidst the varying [[Art Shift]]s being Deadpool's modern-day speech bubbles.
* John Byrne's untitled story from ''[[Batman Black And White]]'': Volume Two'' is drawn in the style of a [[Golden Age]] [[Batman]] comic and is written accordingly as well, with Batman and Robin smiling throughout the entire story, delivering wisecracks, and besting the villains via a clever scheme.
** ''Batman Black & White: Volume Three'' has the story "Urban Renewal"; it features some nostalgic flashbacks by characters to the "old days", and the flashbacks are drawn in the [[Golden Age]] style as opposed to the more realistic present-day scenes.
* One sequence in ''[[The Incredible Hercules]]'' features Herc hallucinating that he's reliving previous adventures due to being poisoned. When action is presented from his view, the comic suddenly appears to shift to a seventies artstyle and coloring. They even pan from Black Widow's modern look to her look from when she was on the Defenders with Hercules to emphasize it.
* The newsreel at the beginning of ''[[The Incredibles]]''.
** Also, one of the DVD bonus features is an "authorized adaptation" of a Mr. Incredible adventure, in the form of a cheaply-animated and simple-minded old kiddie cartoon with considerable "aged recording" noise. (The cartoon can also be viewed with Mr. Incredible and Frozone chiming in their comments, [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|MST3K-style]].)
* The clips of ''Woody's Roundup'' in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2''.
** To promote ''Toy Story 3'', two commercials made to look like they were from [[The Eighties]] were commissioned, featuring the [[Defictionalization|defictionalized]] Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear doll—one [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6dZtNYGlLM English], one [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ZwkcHCVkE Japanese].
* The 1930s style song "The Spirit of Adventure" over ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]'''s closing credits is in lo-fi monophonic sound.
* The ending credits of ''[[Winnie the Pooh|The Tigger Movie]]'' run against sepia still images of scenes from the film redrawn in the style of E.H. Shepherd's line drawings from the books. Tigger in particular looks ''completely'' different from the Disney version.
* 2011 French romantic comedy ''[[The Artist]]'' is 1) shot in the old 1.33:1 [[Aspect Ratio]], 2) [[Deliberately Monochrome]], and 3) a [[Silence Is Golden|silent film]].
* ''[[Hobo with a Shotgun]]'' is made to look like it was made in the early '80s, complete with Technicolor, music, and film grain.
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* ''[[Grindhouse]]'', a '70s [[B-Movie]] pastiche which was presented in its theatrical cut as a double feature with scratched-up film, missing reels, [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie|trailers for ficitional films]] and an ad for a Tex-Mex restaurant adjoining the theatre.
** It gets [[Mind Screw|really weird]] when you notice that while it goes as far as to have fake ads and trailers that look like something right out of the seventies, the actual ''settings'' of the films are modern.
*** And note the tendency of the film to warp during particularly action-packed scenes. It's as if it's too intense for the celluloid to handle. More realistically, this might be because those specific scenes have been watched the most, out of context. In the '70s, it was not uncommon for the projectionist to simply cut out a particularly hot sex scene and take it home, which explains why half of ''Planet Terror''{{'}}s is [[Relax-O-Vision|gone]] and why the lapdance scene was cut from ''Death Proof''{{'}}s theatrical release.
* The 2005 ''[[H.P. Lovecraft|The Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' movie. (Even [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHuY2wXTd0o the trailer]!)
** The makers of it are currently doing Lovecraft's ''The Whisperer in Darkness'' in style of a 1930s movie.
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* [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Zelig]]'' is a Mockumentary about a "chameleon man" of the 1920s and '30s. The supposedly archived footage of the era was actually filmed using cameras and such of the period. This, in addition to ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' style editing (though this movie predated that one by over ten years), created a nearly impenetrable illusion.
* ''[[Far From Heaven]]'', set in [[The Fifties]], imitates the look of movies produced back then, specifically Douglas Sirk's movies - the plot is almost lifted from ''All That Heaven Allows''. The score is by Elmer Bernstein, who composed music for several famous films in the '50s.
* The French musical ''[[
* [[Orson Welles]] used this trope in ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' with the newsreel in the beginning, going so far as to use ''sandpaper'' on the original print to make it look old and worn.
* ''[[Mirage]]'' is a 1965 movie filmed in black and white and in the style of classic noir.
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* The [[Mel Brooks]] film ''[[Silent Movie (film)|Silent Movie]]'' is filmed in color and includes a music track that's part of the film (rather than separate—but this was common in the last years of the silent era). Nonetheless, it was done in the style of...a silent movie, with actors "speaking" their lines, followed by a dialogue card: something that's partially parodied throughout the movie.
* The [[Mel Brooks]] remake of ''[[To Be or Not to Be]]'' features a montage of [[World War II]] footage of Poland being attacked, in the style of the newsreels of the time. The montage ends with main characters appearing in the same gritty black and white style.
* For ''[[Back to
* The Bayeux Tapestry-esque opening of ''[[Bedknobs and Broomsticks]]'', complete with the film's Nazi invasion depicted in Medieval tapestry style
* ''[[Kung Pow! Enter the Fist]]'' used old footage from an actual Hong Kong martial arts flick that was worn, so most of the new parts edited into the movie were artificially worn to match the rest of the film.
* Just about anything directed by Wes Anderson (''[[Rushmore]]'', ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'', ''[[The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spCknVcaSHg his American Express commercial]) is full of it. Actually, Wes Anderson himself is pretty Retraux. ([[Outdated Outfit|Have you seen how he dresses?]])
* The "Maroon Cartoon" opening of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'' is made to look like an animated theatrical short from the 1940s, when the movie is set.
* ''[[Serenity]]'', see ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' below.
* Several parts in ''[[CSA: Confederate States of America]]'' are made to look like older films, including an old, silent movie.
* The Mel Gibson crime movie ''Payback'' is very stylized film-noir; colors are washed out, characters wear vintage clothing, even the cellular car phones are rotary dial.
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* ''[[Apollo 18]]'', in keeping with its ''Blair Witch''-esque premise, is entirely portrayed as found footage from a 1970s space mission, with all the accompanying film grain and video artifacts.
* ''[[Black Dynamite]]'' is a 2000s [[Blaxploitation Parody]] done entirely in the style of 1970s [[Blaxploitation]] films, right down the soundtrack, flimsy camerawork and aged look. So much so that even [[Roger Ebert]] mistook it for a 70s film.
* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg Kung Fury]'' is a 2015 action comedy that manages to both be an homage to [[The Eighties]] and pass off ''as'' a film from [[The Eighties]].
* While the 2019 version of ''[[Little Women]]'' is not itself Retraux, the publicity photos of the [[All-Star Cast]] definitely are; they were taken by a period-style camera with an actual period lens, on tin type instead of on film. [https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/the-story-behind-these-authentic-1800s-style-pictures-of-the-little-women-cast-1.5454249 See them here].
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* ''[[Jonathan Strange
▲== Literature ==
▲* ''[[Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell]]'' is a fantasy tale written as a Jane Austen pastiche, right down to using obsolete spellings of common words.
* ''[[The Onion]] Presents: Our Dumb Century''.
* Thomas Pynchon's novels ''Mason & Dixon'' and ''Against the Day'' are both written in prose styles similar to literature from the eras in which they're set.
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* ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'' adapted the sections of the comic's selections of [[Fictional Document|an in-series book]] ''Under The Hood'' in the form of a archived TV News report thereof.
=== Magazines ===▼
* [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]] published a special Bicentennial [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601760704,00.html "July 8, 1776" edition] in 1976. The entire issue is written as if ''Time'' had actually existed in 1776, with all its usual sections (with a few obvious exceptions like Film and Television.) It apparently sold well, and was followed by a "1789" edition covering the first inauguration of George Washington.▼
== [[Live
* ''[[Cold Case]]'' flashbacks are filmed to evoke the period they are from (e.g. black and white for times that predate colour film).
** In addition, the flashback sequences often feature popular music that likely ''would'' have been featured in a TV show episode from whatever year the flashback would have taken place in.
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** Speaking of which, its parent show ''[[Life On Mars]]'' revelled in this trope for advertising, even going as far as having a recreation of the BBC One ident of the 70s precede broadcasting of the second series. [[Life On Mars|The American version]] did the same with the ABC logo.
* The TV version of ''[[In the Heat of the Night]]'' used a brilliant pastiche of a 1960s title sequence.
* Harry Enfield did this a lot in his sketch shows, especially with the Cholmondley-Warner & Grayson sketches on ''[[Harry Enfield and Chums]]''. His later series ''[[Harry
* ''[[Smallville]]'' has a [[Film Noir]] episode framed as Jimmy Olsen's dream sequence.
** So did ''[[Lois and Clark]]''.
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* ''Jimmy McDonald's Canada'' was a parody of current events shows from [[The Sixties]], filmed in black and white, and occasionally stopping to advertise cigarettes. Richard Waugh, who played Jimmy, somehow managed to convey "[[The Sixties]]" in his very speaking voice.
* ''[[Mad Men]]'' on AMC is supposed to be set in the early 60s, and is filmed with a dark, slightly fuzzy/grainy look to it. This is in keeping with the show's obssessive focus on setting—the furniture is all vintage, along with the clothing. Even to the point of making the actors wear authentic undergarments that are never seen.
* ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' was deliberately filmed with old camera lenses to give it that authentic [[The Seventies|70s]] [[Western]] feel.
* The DVD menus of ''[[The IT Crowd]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoOkoP5GGQI The first series] is a pastiche of vintage computers, complete with tape loader and extremely elaborate (for a DVD '''menu''') parodies of ''[[Head Over Heels]]'' and ''[[Jet Set Willy]]''. And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAY52wyb6tM the second series] does to 16-bit games what the first did to 8-bit.
* ''[[Yo Gabba Gabba!]]'' has an 8-bit sounding opening, prominently features chiptunes during scene changes, and occasionally features episode filler scenes that pays homage to 80s video games, complete with blocky graphics.
* ''[[Fringe]]'', for an episode set entirely in [[The Eighties]], used [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reaIcN61M-M&fmt=22 an 80s-style opening] [[Special Edition Title]]. Hilariously, they replace the normal flashes of futuristic fringe sciences (teleportation, dark matter, etc) with things that were futuristic at the time (cold fusion, in vitro fertilization, ''personal computing'') but [[Science Marches On|have either become commonplace or totally debunked]]. Compare to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-daL35AIQpw the usual opening]
* ''[[Chuck]]'': "Chuck vs. the Role Models" has a [[Cold Open]] of a '70s/'80s style [[Special Edition Title]] (mostly a parody of [[Hart to Hart]]'s credit sequence.)
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* ''[[Hustle]]''. An exposition scene explaining how an old-style con worked was done in the form of a black & white silent movie.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Magazines ==
▲* ''Time'' magazine published a special Bicentennial "July 8, 1776" edition in 1976. The entire issue is written as if ''Time'' had actually existed in 1776, with all its usual sections (with a few obvious exceptions like Film and Television.) It apparently sold well, and was followed by a "1789" edition covering the first inauguration of George Washington.
▲== Music ==
* [[Pop Revival]]
* The [[Foo Fighters]]' 2011 album "Wasting Light" was recorded entirely on analog tape in Dave Grohl's garage.
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* Whether or not this was a conscious effort on their part, The Hives had that sort of image (and sound) that you might date to the Sixties heyday of garage bands, circa ''Tyrannosaurus Hives''.
* The Mike Flowers Pops' cover of [[Oasis]]' "Wonderwall".
* Heck, anything featured in [https://web.archive.org/web/20070607180738/http://www.coverville.com/archives/2006/03/coverville_164_1.html these] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090515233347/http://www.coverville.com/archives/2007/04/coverville_309.html two] April Fool's episodes of the "Coverville" podcast.
* [[Two Words|One contraction]]: Lo-fi
* For his first few albums, [[Lenny Kravitz]] prided himself on using pre-1970s recording equipment exclusively.
** The Apples (In Stereo) have almost ''never'' used non-vintage recording equipment - about 99% of their recorded output has been mastered on eight-track reel-to-reel.
** Same thing with [[The White Stripes]], who sent promo copies of one of their album out on vinyl and said "If you can't play this you don't deserve to listen to it" (or something to that effect)
* This is the selling point of [https://web.archive.org/web/20071009070110/http://www.toeragstudios.com/introduction.swf Toerag Studios] in London, which uses only old analogue recording equipment.
* ''Blue Country Heart'', a collection of '30s country and blues covers by former Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, features songs recorded in a single take on period instruments.
* [[Monster Magnet]]'s early material (the two EPs, ''Spine of God'' and ''Superjudge'') is this kind of throwback to 1970s acid rock.
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* One track on the [[Space Channel 5]] Part 2 soundtrack, "Mellow Medley", is a medley of Space Channel 5 songs done in the style of 16-bit game music.
* Max Raabe & Palast Orchester are a faux 20s jazz orchestra from [[Berlin]], they cover modern popsongs in this style as well.
* As any Authentic Mississippi Delta Blues Aficionado [[Tradesnark™|™]] will testify, Robert Leroy Johnson is well-known as the great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of Authentic Mississippi Delta Blues Music [[Running Gag|™]]. Johnson was well-known for his mastery on guitar, small back-catalogue of hard-to-find blues recordings, [[Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll|wild lifestyle]], his untimely [[Dead Artists Are Better|death at the age of 27]], and for the mystique of [[Deal with the Devil|having sold his soul to 'Ol Scratch]] down by the Crossroads in exchange for going from a marginal talent playing an out-of-tune guitar to inventor of the modern blues style in such a short period of time. Well, being a poor Southern black bluesman in 1938 meant you did your Authentic Blues Playing on a [[The Alleged Car|cheap old acoustic guitar]]. Fast-forward to the modern age, and you can purchase a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923021954/http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Acoustic-Instruments/Small-Body/Gibson-Acoustic/Robert-Johnson-L-1.aspx Signature Edition Robert Johnson L-1] for $2,793 retail, probably way more money than Robert Johnson ever ''saw'' in his entire short life.
* [[Lupe Fiasco]]'s "1985" which was done in the style of rappers of that year.
* [[Franz Ferdinand]] has an addiction to old equipment, especially if German or Soviet. Particularly notable is the ancient Soviet synthesizer they used for their third album (''Tonight: Franz Ferdinand'') which had been designed by Soviet engineers as an imitation of Western models without actually ever having seen the innards of a Western synthesizer.
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* [[Them Crooked Vultures]] wouldn't be out of place on classic rock radio. Upon hearing it, it's easy to think their debut album came out in 1975 instead of 2009. It helps that the bassist for the band is [[Led Zeppelin|John Paul Jones.]] One review remarked that the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGp97OVybUM "Scumbag Blues"] almost sounded like it belonged on ''Led Zeppelin II.''
* Some works in the Futurepop subgenre of [[Industrial]] invoke this, such as [[VNV Nation]]'s latest album.
* The artists of the France-based [https://web.archive.org/web/20131205001447/http://www.valeriecollective.com/about/ Valerie Collective] do 80s-style italo-disco/synth/electropop.
* Adele's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw Rollin' in the Deep] is a straight throwback to the disco era, complete with the black diva voice.
* Most bands from the [[Elephant 6|Elephant Six Collective]], recreating psych rock or chamber pop from the 60s/70s.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYzKVTTujs "Technicolor Dreams"] by [[The Bee Gees]]. Sounds like the 1930s, released in 2001.
=== [[Music Videos]] ===▼
▲== [[Music Videos]] ==
* Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ouI5KcyHfE "100 Days, 100 Nights"] was literally filmed using equipment that's straight from the 1960s. (The director bought two vintage TV cameras on eBay in working condition—for about $100 total.)
** The packaging for the album from which the song comes (same title) is also deliberately retro. If you have the vinyl pressing, you might well pass it off to your friends as a soul album from 1967 or so.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0pM5dm--yQ&ob=av2n "Tell Her About It"] by Billy Joel features Joel singing in a [[Fake Band]] ("B. J. and the Affordables") in the style of [[The Beatles]] and other sixties groups on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]''.
* The video to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-greVjUEdc Enuff Z'Nuff's "Fly High Michelle"], released in 1989, has the feel of the 1960's psychedelia, complete with rainbows, balloons, and doves.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* The short-lived Wrestling Society X was home to Matt Classic, a wrestler who had been in a coma since the '50s, and wrestled in the same style that won him the World Heavyweight Championship in 1952—including such devastating moves as the head vice, the abdominal stretch, and the airplane spin. Matt Classic was portrayed by Colt Cabana, who was in his mid-20s at the time.
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] decided to do an "old school" night on ''Raw'' in November 2011. They threw up a classic looking WWF set and ramp, swapped out the barriers with old-fashioned rails, and even used a retro-styled WWE logo (though this has actually appeared on a few John Cena promotional items in the past). They even had [[Michael Cole]] dress up as an od-school [[Vince McMahon]], since Vince was on commentary duty during the era the show was representing.
== Sports ==▼
* The National Hockey League created Retraux alternate jerseys, especially among teams too new to have large amounts of history to tap into. As of the 2011-2012 season, a third of the league have jerseys in this style. The Pittsburgh Penguins are the worst offender as they have worn actual vintage jerseys from the 70s in previous years but chose to switch to a made up Retraux design for the 2011-12 season, albeit based off their original 1967 design.▼
* The [[Australian Rules Football|Australian Football League]]'s "heritage round" has teams wear old-style versions of their guernseys. Hawthorn fans seemed to particularly like their heritage strip, and there is a push for the team to change back to it permanently.▼
* The throwback jerseys worn by the NBA's Golden State Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers were such a hit with fans that the two teams changed their logos permanently.▼
* NFL teams are allowed to wear throwbacks twice a year. Of note were the Green Bay Packers late 1930s throwbacks with brown helmets to stand in for leather.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* "[[Mazes and Minotaurs]]" is a [[What If]] on ''[[Dungeons
* "Labyrinth Lord" is a Retraux as well—this time much closer to the original version of ''Dungeons & Dragons''
** As well as "Swords and Wizardry," which draws on [[Heroic Fantasy|Sword and Sorcery]] as opposed to Labyrinth Lord's [[High Fantasy]] and which also takes out the Thief, leaving us with the Fighting Man, the Magic User and the Cleric of original D&D.
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** The joke set ''Unhinged'', the nostalgia set ''Time Spiral'', and the online-only reprint sets all bring back retired frame designs to evoke this trope.
* ''[[Cartoon Action Hour]]'' kisses up to the action cartoon of 1980s.
* Goodman Games used the slogan "Third Edition Rules, First Edition Feel" for their ''[[Dungeons
** Necromancer Games has a similar design philosophy. Their best-known [[Sourcebook]], ''Tome of Horrors'', consists largely of 1E monsters that [[Wizards of the Coast]] wasn't using and let them publish. Complete with high-contrast pen-and-ink black and white illustrations.
** Robert Kuntz also used the same trade dress for his retro modules as well—of course, [[Justified Trope|he was one of the old hands at TSR at the time this style was originally being used for Dungeons and Dragons]].
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* There's ''[http://www.forgottenfutures.com/ Forgotten Futures]'', shareware "Scientific Romance Role Playing Game" by Marcus L. Rowland—as the name says, it's designed for this sort of adventures.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Christopher Fry's 1948 play ''The Lady's Not for Burning'' is written in the style of a Shakespearean comedy.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* [[Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril]] is a Metroidvania released in 2010 and it's completely with 8-bit graphics and music. Which makes sense, considering that it's a real NES game, cartridge and all.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]: [[Grand Theft Auto Vice City|Vice City]]'', a game from 2002, mimics the loading screen of a [[Commodore 64]] upon booting up, a reference to the game's 1986 setting.
** Similarly, there is a GTA Vice City "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130826133106/http://www.rockstargames.com/degenatron/ fanpage]" devoted to the Degenatron, a primitive parody of second generation video game consoles, complete with working "emulations" of its three "8-bit" games and a supposedly old scan of a Degenatron magazine ad. Done again in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'', which promotes an [http://www.exsorbeo.com/ eXsorbeo "fansite"] containing another "emulator" for one game from "1991" with monochrome and pixelated graphics not dissimilar to those of classic [[Game Boy]] games.
** ''[[Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories]]'' features similar aesthetics in some of its fake websites, appearing like those circa 1998. Of note is [http://www.pauliesrevue.net/ this one], which particularly pokes fun at your average poorly designed [[Geocities]]-like website common before the abundance of competent web designers.
** ''Grand Theft Auto Advance'' is a retraux of the first two GTA installments with its top-down perspective.
* ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'', when you run out of [[Mana Meter|VFX]].
* Much like ''Mega Man 9'', ''Sega Racing Classic'', an [[Updated Rerelease]] to the classic racing title ''[[Daytona USA]]'', uses graphics that look like they came out of 1994, the year the original game was released to international audiences. The only changes were to the draw distance and resolution. [http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3176738 See it in all of its glory here.]{{Dead link}}
** This is largely due to practicality more than anything else. Arcade operators (they still exist!) continued to place orders to Sega for ''Daytona USA'' machines and replacement parts. Unfortunately, Sega no longer produces the hardware and no longer had the Daytona license. The solution was ''Sega Racing Classic'', which solves all three problems.
* ''[[Stubbs the Zombie]]''. Retro-future setting and they intentionally put a grainy "filter" of sorts to complete the ensemble.
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** Konami made an entire series out of ''ReBirth'' titles, with the other games being ''[[Contra]] ReBirth'' and ''[[Castlevania]]: The Adventure ReBirth''.
* Almost everything in the ''[[Fallout]]'' games is designed to basically be what [[The Fifties]] thought the future would be like. ''Fallout 2'' strayed from it somewhat, but ''Fallout 3'' brought it back and stuck to it like glue.
** Bethesda also created a [[Web Games|browser game]] based on ''Fallout 3'' that used 8-bit graphics similar to the early ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' games. It's currently only in Japanese, but it's fascinating: https://web.archive.org/web/20120629033743/http://www.bethsoft.com/jpn/fo/fo_quest/index.html
*** Ironically, that actually looks similar to ''[[Wasteland (video game)|Wasteland]]'', the original game which inspired ''Fallout''.
* The 1st part of the opening sequence for ''[[Power Stone]]'' is made to look and sound like a faded film reel from the early 20th century is being run. This is appropriate since the game scenery and characters are throwbacks to that era.
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** In ''[[Sega Superstars|Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing]]'', Opa-Opa's "voice" samples consists of sound effects ripped directly from ''Super Fantasy Zone''. This is in contrast to fellow retro racers Alex Kidd (who's [[Suddenly Voiced]]) and the Bonanza Bros. (who have their "he-he", the only speech they ever had in the original game, resampled in multiple variants)
* ''Pole's Big Adventure'' uses this trope to its fullest as it is a [[Parody]] of the 8-bit [[Platformer]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100412114755/http://www.tigsource.com/features/demakes/index.html The Independant Gaming Source's Bootleg Demakes Competition]. Name says it all.
** Most notable of them is ''[http://www.ganggarrison.com/ Gang Garrison 2]'', a fully functional 8-bit platformer version of ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' with online play.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'''s art style (including some fake ads on the official website and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzYFWXyfiBw introductory tutorials shown on grainy projector film]) has a 1950s-60s aesthetic. The jazzy spy music helps too.
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* The flashbacks in the ''[[Final Fantasy IV: The After Years]]'' (including a playable one in Porom's chapter) are deliberately done in the same style as the the original SNES version of ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]''. The rest of the game looks more like ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', which at first makes it appear as an example, but the game was originally made for cell phones incapable of the graphics of later ''Final Fantasy'' games.
** ''[[Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light]]'' is a [[George Lucas Throwback]] intentionally modeled after ''[[Final Fantasy III]].'' The soundtrack is all partially composed with 8-bit samples to invoke an "old-school" effect.
* ''[[Castlevania]]: [[Symphony of the Night]]'''s Prologue uses the HUD from its predecessor, ''[[Castlevania: Rondo of Blood|Rondo of Blood]]'', which makes sense as it's a pseudo-flashback to ''Rondo'' and the game is a direct sequel to it. Richter and Maria modes also make use of this HUD.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ6VA1loiPw The sixth level] of ''[[Parappa the Rapper]] 2'' is done with graphics and music resembling old 8-bit video games, and gets progressively less detailed as your performance dips into the "bad" and "awful" levels.
* ''[[Cortex Command]]'' is an in-development retraux game which is a 2D side-scroller with a look of the early 90s, though it wasn't even started until the year 2000.
* The entire [[Roguelike]] genre qualifies. Roguelikes, such as ''[[Nethack]], [[Ancient Domains of Mystery|ADOM]]'' and ''Angband'' (among others), use primarily ASCII graphics. This style, along with the gameplay, is a deliberate attempt to evoke the feel of the classic game ''[[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]]''.
* The "Void Quest" dungeon in ''[[Persona 4]]'' mimics 8-bit graphics and even, during the boss fight, old-style RPG menus - with a twist (you're the monsters being attacked, and the boss is the hero).
* One of the many ''[[Tetris]]'' variants on [http://www.tetrisfriends.com/ Tetris Friends] is ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130809075103/http://www.tetrisfriends.com/games/Mono/game.php Tetris 1989]'', designed to mimic the Game Boy version as close as possible. In terms of sound, only the the Tetris theme is accurate, but who's complaining?
* ''[[The Dark Spire]]'' is a close imitation of 1980s ''[[Wizardry]]'' games, and even has a mode which produces wireframe graphcs like in the early 1980s, along with 8 bit style music.
* The Bitlands in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' are a throwback to 8-bit games. The doors in Fort Francis even make retro sound effects when opened.
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* In ''[[Zettai Hero Project]],'' the main character had just taken over the mantle of the Unlosing Ranger; since no one believes in him, he has no sponsors. So for the first few times he goes up against Dark Death Evil Man, it's set to an 8-bit RPG system akin to ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' or ''[[Final Fantasy]].'' It progressively improves to 16-bit before settling on visuals more akin to ''[[Valkyrie Profile]].''
* The [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] fangame [http://jayisgames.com/games/friendship-is-magic-story-of-the-blanks/ Story of the Blanks].
* The whole ''[[Etrian Odyssey]]'' series more or less came about because a certain game designer really wanted there to be ''[[Dungeon Master (video game)|Dungeon Master]]'' for the DS. Every aspect is lovingly oldschool, even down to the music, which was actually entirely composed on a [[PC
* Every game in the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' series has at least one stage made in the fashion of Nintendo games of the old: the original had Mushroom Kingdom (complete with the 8-bit Mario theme); ''Melee'' had Kingdom and Kingdom II (the latter, inspired by ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', and with the music from this game); ''Brawl'' had Mario Bros. (from the eponymous arcade where Luigi debuted) and 75m (from ''[[Donkey Kong]]'') - and yeah, there is original 8-bit music available for these stages. Oh, and let's not forget the Flat Zones in ''Melee'' and ''Brawl'', which are essentially set in Game & Watches running composite games as you fight (though both have original music).
* ''[[Marvel Ultimate Alliance]]'' allowed you to play ''[[Pitfall]]'' with your active hero after the boss fight with Phoenix. While the hero still appears in 3D, the rest of the stage (save for the end point) is entirely made like in the Atari 2600.
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* ''[[Soulcaster]]'' and ''Soulcaster II'' have 8-bit-style graphics.
* The [[Nintendo 3DS]] game ''[[Mutant Mudds]]'' is done using NES-style graphics and sound. Taken even further, there are hidden levels that mimic the monochrome color schemes of the [[Game Boy]] ("G-Land") and [[Virtual Boy]] ("V-Land").
* The Indie Game ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140104165340/http://wretcher.com/ Wretcher]'' is an attempt to mimic old horror adventure games, and uses a 16-bit style reminiscent of the ''[[Clock Tower (series)|Clock Tower]]'' games.
* ''[[Free Civ]]'', a free indie remake of the ''[[Civilization]]'' games is done in the image of the early entries of Sid Meier's series.
* ''[[Bioshock]]'' has a number of touches like tutorial videos and commercials meant to emulate the style of 1940s-50s advertising.
* ''[[Bioshock Infinite]]'s'' Columbia meanwhile is filled with posters and paraphernalia that wouldn't look out of place at the turn of the 20th Century, complete with old-school kinetoscopes. While the ''Truth from Legend'' and ''Fact from Myth'' viral ads are entirely done in the style of [[Conspiracy Theory]] documentaries straight out of [[The Eighties]].
* Much of the [[All There in the Manual|lore and backstory]] in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', befitting its Pixar-inspired aesthetic is done in the style of magazines and comics from the 1950s-60s.
* In addition to the multiple homages to [[The Eighties]], ''[[Far Cry]] 3: Blood Dragon'' has cutscenes that wouldn't look out of place in a 16-bit or 32-bit game.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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** Pretty much any of the Videlectrix games on ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' (with the exception of ''Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People''): ''Peasant's Quest'' is at least as good, if not actually better, as many of its "contemporaries" which it mimics, such as ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]''.
*** To add to the retrauxness, the employees of Videlectrix are the Brothers Chaps dressed up in polo shirts and fake mustaches. And their games are programmed on an Apple IIe.
** Furthermore, they occasionally make toons in their own older style, like [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104135130/http://www.homestarrunner.com/stuckincraw.html "The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck In His Craw"].
** Let's not forget [https://web.archive.org/web/20131111060957/http://www.homestarrunner.com/cz110.html "Coach Z's 110%"], which is made in the style of an old [[Infomercial]].
* In episode 35 of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', a [[Clip Show]], Yami asks Kaiba if he remembers the time the two of them first met, which is shown as 'a time when the video quality wasn't very good, and the audio was all muffled and scratchy'. Clips from the first episode are used in black and white, with a fake moustache and monicle painted onto Kaiba, and a 'silent movie' motif with old-style dialogue printed on the screen and an upbeat piano theme.
{{quote|'''Kaiba''': "Your brash nature offends me, Mr. Moto! I shall soon put an end to your impertinence!"
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'''Kaiba''': "[[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|My affluence makes a nonsense of the regulations!]]" }}
** Not to mention this is [[Lampshaded]] by Kaiba moments later when he says he doesn't remember growing a moustache.
* The entire oeuvre of Paul Robertson, creator of [http://vimeo.com/5824679 Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20100414014828/http://vimeo.com/2776328 Kings of Power 4 Billion %]—the most awesome old-school video games that never actually existed.
* The History of the F' Word is in black and white among other things. [https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/94420]
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' did one of these, [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=9791&mpe=1&step=1 The Astonishing Excursions of Helen Narbon & Co.], interspersed with the main comic.
** ''Narbonic'' also had the ''Dave in Slumberland'' strips once a year, which were drawn in the style of ''[[Little Nemo]]'', and provided immense foreshadowing.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150722003452/http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/rb-vol1.jpg Issue 1] of ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' appears as if it had been printed during [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]].
** Flashbacks in ''Dr. McNinja'' use the shading style of the time when they take place (e.g. when the story was told about how Gordito got his guns, the comic dropped shading.)
* ''[[Wondermark]]'' is made to look like it was made in the early 1900s, and was: the author takes old-style printings and adds dialog.
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** Evidence in ''Jet Dream'' letter columns and other material suggests that the publisher believed in mass-scale [[Wholesome Crossdresser|wholesome crossdressing]] by boys to prepare for humanity's future as a [[One-Gender Race]]. The wholesome, hoped-to-be [[Comics Code|Code approved]] Jet Dream comics were only one of his business ventures aimed at cashing in on a "Fem Is In!" movement that... never quite developed.
* ''[[Unicorn Jelly]]'' looks like something drawn in an 8-bit MS-DOS paint program, and with good reason: it ''was'' drawn in an 8-bit MS-DOS paint program.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131101234126/http://rosalarian.com/lesbianpirates/ I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space!!!]'' has been run through Photoshop filters because the auther/artist wants it to feel like "your parents’ old collection that they forget they left up there, all faded and stained."
* According to [[Word of God]], ''[[Minus]]'' is done in the style of a [[Newspaper Comic]] from the early 20th century. It shows.
* ''[[The Blonde Marvel]]'' 11-page story "The Thing That Came" was presented as if it had been published in 1955.
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* The [[Platypus Comix]] story "[http://www.platypuscomix.net/miscellaneous/index.php?issue=16&pageType=index&seriesID=7 Vess MacMeal Starring in: The More You Know!]" has drawings resembling [[The Fifties|1950s]] kitschy artwork.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEAkChFGhVI This parody infomercial about "mastering the Internet"]. Yes, it's a modern-day spoof. It sure doesn't look that way, though. According to [http://atencio.tumblr.com/post/36634716/okay the director], it was dubbed between video recorders four times for that extra-special effect.
** Similarly, [http://www.hollywoodeasttv.com/video/its-the-world-wide-web It's The World Wide Web]
** Mid-'90s retro. Raise your hand if this ''doesn't'' make you feel old.
* ''[[The New Adventures of Captain S]]'', a series made by [http://www.pbc-productions.com/ PBC Productions] about a gamer who can phisically enter Sega games, is supposed to look like it was made in the early 1990s. It takes inspiration from ''[[Captain N: The Game Master]]'', ''[[Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad]]'' and ''[[Saved by the Bell]]''. The credits use the same font that was used in ''[[Full House]]'' and the [http://www.pbc-productions.com/images/dvd.jpg DVD cover] is made to resemble the DVD cover of [http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/breakfastclub.jpg Breakfast Club].
* [[The Totally Rad Show]]: [
* [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/504353 This] [[Transformers]] [[Affectionate Parody]] gives an account of Transformers appearing in [[The Gay Nineties]].
* "[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/ask-thatguy/20495-ask-that-guy-violates-ma-ti Ask That Guy VIOLATES Ma-Ti] is done in the style of a silent film, complete with the text screens after the dialogue and black-and-white footage. {{spoiler|The illusion is broken at the end after Ma-Ti takes down [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses|Ask That Guy]] and reprimands the viewer for being sick enough to want to watch the titular act depicted.}}
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*** And in the ''Watchmen'' universe itself, that cartoon is something that Veidt Enterprises ''would conceivably have produced'' to market its toy action figures...
* Ivan Guerrero's [http://www.youtube.com/user/whoiseyevan "premakes"] are trailers of modern films as they would have been if they'd been produced in the [[B-Movie]] days circa 1950.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY5eELnVISc This fake VHS trailer] from ChiefBrodyRules for ''[[Captain America]]: Winter Soldier'' posits what the movie would have been like had it been made in [[The Eighties]], complete with appropriate effects and editing. Keep in mind, this was made in ''2014.''
*The "Monobook" skin in MediaWiki used to be the default skin until Vector arrived in 2009. Since then, a ''lot'' of work has gone into making Monobook retraux, with a responsive design version )with icons that were made in the New 10s but match the rest of Monobook's 2000s look) and the nullification of 2010s-era flat design present in the other skins. There are even scripts on English Wikipedia that make the cleanup templates look like they did before "template standardization" in 2007, to complete the faux-2006 feel.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* The Tinpo shorts on CBS' Kewlopolis block (which can also be seen online) use 8-bit style music (although one can also hear actual modern electric guitars on the soundtracks as well).
** The music, incidentally, is by a band named Anamanaguchi, whose members actually write music using an NES music tracker and play the resulting code on ''an actual NES'', with electric guitars to accompany it. It's awesome stuff.
* An episode of ''[[The Fairly
* In an episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the crew watches a Harold Zoid silent ''[[Schizo-Tech|hologram]]'' in black-and-white.
** ''Futurama'' packaging and merchandise also often evokes [[Zeerust]] aesthetics (like some things in the show - Bender himself is an example).
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* The 2011 ''[[Winnie the Pooh (Disney film)|Winnie the Pooh]]'' film follows the style of the original shorts fairly closely, right down to details like photocopy lines and the backgrounds.
* The short-lived ''[[Code Monkeys]]'' was an animated series done completely in the style of an 8-bit video game, with the cast resembling characters from mid-80s Taito games such as Renegade and Mat Mania.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Many attractions at various [[Disney Theme Parks]] are painstakingly worked on to appear genuinely ancient or old
* Consumer-level video editing programs such as iMovie and Windows Movie Maker have their share of effects that make things look brown ("Sepia"), old (old reel marks), or even very old (choppy action and faded borders). Of course, these are abused by amateur video makers.
** Effects like those are even ''built into'' some camcorders; Sony's Digital-8 decks are a good example, as are some flash and DVD-based cameras. Needless to say, people who do serious video work tend to recommend not using them under any circumstances and doing all that sort of thing in postproduction.
* "Vintage" T-shirts for sale at retail stores. Brand new shirts deliberately faded and cracked to look like they're 30 years old. Pre-ripped jeans also count.
* Certain slot machines (mainly those manufactured by IGT) are still being made with mechanical reels and levers to pull, even though they're all run by computers now and these are no longer required. Many people prefer these for a more authentic experience. Even in Minnesota, where mechanical reels are not allowed, the video versions of these same games are still built with levers. Sadly, machines that dispense payout in coins/tokens (instead of tickets) are much rarer, if not extinct.
* Computers and laptops built with false-wooden frames, buttons and similar accessories are fairly popular among various groups, particularly
* Various architectural styles like Neoclassicism or Gothic Revival. Amusingly, the latter was a reaction to the former: Neoclassicism was seen as "Enlightenment" and "liberal" (in the old sense), so Romantics and (old-sense) conservatives [[Start My Own|invented their own revival]] to counter it, drawing [[Romanticism Versus Enlightenment]] into the field of architecture in the ugliest (except for the buildings, pretty much ''all'' of which were beautiful) possible way. The debate didn't end until the Bauhaus-educated German Modernists, driven from [[Nazi Germany]] for being "degenerate" (or worse, Jewish) came out of nowhere to destroy them both. (The Soviet Vkhutemas was doing much the same thing, but since they were [[Dirty Communists]] they were ignored in the West).
* Many alleys of Budapest's Inner City were redesigned to look 19th century, complete with lamp posts that look like gas lanterns.
** The goal of the Margaret Bridge's recent reconstruction was explicitly to restore the bridge to its 1936 design.
* Reliced<ref>"Relic", not "Re-lice"</ref> musical instruments
** There's also another aspect to this. From the 50s to the 70s all instruments used nitrocellulose lacquer, but as it was rather hazardous, polyurethane is the standard finish today. Nitro is very "fragile" and easily comes off and ages very nicely (fading, yellowing and so on). This is why real vintage guitars have a special sort of relic to them. Polyester on the other hand is very hard and thick, has no real aging and hardly ever comes off, which makes getting a played in feeling with many modern guitars is close to impossible. It's thick and goopy and dampens the sound, but protects the instrument and offers a wider selection of colors. Polyurethane is somewhere between nitro and polyester—only a little bit thicker than nitro so it doesn't kill your harmonics, but with durability and color choices comparable to polyester. It still doesn't age quite the same, and opinions vary whether that's good or bad. Still, it's generally considered an acceptable compromise.
* Some people have cell phone ringtones that sound exactly like old-fashioned bell telephones.
* Doritos re-released a chip flavour that they discontinued in the mid
* The car industry has many examples of faux-retro models.
** Chevrolet Camaro
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* Though more subtle than most, there has traditionally been a lot of demand for "film look" coming from digital video cameras, to the point of making things like 24p frame rates standard even on relatively low-end camcorders. The adoption of DSLR cameras like the Canon 5DmkII specifically aimed to duplicate the depth-of-field effects film cameras traditionally give by using standard interchangeable lenses and large image sensors; the jury is still out as to whether "film look" has been truly achieved for The Rest of Us, or if its proponents have created a new, unique DSLR look.
* Pepsi and Mountain Dew Throwback use cane sugar instead of the high-fructose corn syrup found in modern soft drinks. They also feature vintage brand logos on the packaging.
* The Seattle Space Needle celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2012. As part of the celebration, the whole thing
* In the 1990s, [[McDonald's]] built several drive-thru-only locations in the style of the earliest restaurants.
▲=== Sports ===
▲* The National Hockey League created Retraux alternate jerseys, especially among teams too new to have large amounts of history to tap into. As of the 2011-2012 season, a third of the league have jerseys in this style. The Pittsburgh Penguins are the worst offender as they have worn actual vintage jerseys from the 70s in previous years but chose to switch to a made up Retraux design for the 2011-12 season, albeit based off their original 1967 design.
▲* The [[Australian Rules Football|Australian Football League]]'s "heritage round" has teams wear old-style versions of their guernseys. Hawthorn fans seemed to particularly like their heritage strip, and there is a push for the team to change back to it permanently.
▲* The throwback jerseys worn by the NBA's Golden State Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers were such a hit with fans that the two teams changed their logos permanently.
▲* NFL teams are allowed to wear throwbacks twice a year. Of note were the Green Bay Packers late 1930s throwbacks with brown helmets to stand in for leather.
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