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* 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 an 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]].''
== Comic Books ==
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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.
* 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.
== Film - Animated ==
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* The 1984 film "Nothing Lasts Forever" is filmed in the style of ancient black-and-white SF films. It looks so convincing that first that it takes the unmistakeable appearance of Dan Ackroyd to alert the audience to its true age.
* ''[[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.
== Literature ==
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* ''[[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.
* Stephen Baxter's ''The Time Ships'' is a sequel to [[The Time Machine]] by [[H. G. Wells]], and written in a similar late-19th century style.
* In a similar manner to ''Jonathan Strange'', ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'' consistantly uses the word "phant'sy" to mean "imagine", although "fancy" was pretty well established by the 17th century, and had already aquired a couple of its modern meanings.
* ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]'' was written in the 19th century, but it's often taught in high schools as an example of 17th-century writing.
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* 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.)
* ''[[The Larry Sanders Show]]'' does this a little:
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* A ''[[Spitting Image]]'' sketch claimed to be celebrating the show's 100th aniversary, and showed a clip from the supposed first show in the 1880s. This was a black and white scene of two [[Punch and Judy]] style puppets, and silent movie captions reading "I say, [[William Gladstone|Mr Gladstone]]! You're not very good!"
* ''[[Hustle]]''. An exposition scene explaining how an old-style con worked was done in the form of a black & white silent movie.
== 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 ==
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* The Mike Flowers Pops' cover of [[Oasis]]' "Wonderwall".
* Heck, anything featured in [http://www.coverville.com/archives/2006/03/coverville_164_1.html these] [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 [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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* The entire psychobilly genre is based on combining [[The Fifties|1950s]] Retraux [[Music/Rockabilly|Rockabilly]] music with lyrics about [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombies]] and things.
* A lot of the stuff [[Tom Waits]] records. "Buzz Fledderjohn" was recorded ''outside''.
* The [[XTC]] side project Dukes Of Stratosphear was meant to sound like 60s psychedelia; in fact they tried to pass off the first release as rare recordings by an obscure British band of the 60s. Aside from mimicking the style, they also recorded to 4-track and replicated mid-60s production techniques, including a good deal of [[Gratuitous Panning]] .
* [[wikipedia:The Beau Hunks|The Beau Hunks]].
* The [[Trip Hop]] movement in the 90s glorified everything analogue (possibly as a backlash against the sterile "digitalness" of 80s synthpop), resulting in many electronic musicians trying to emulate the beloved nostalgic atmosphere by using old equipment, sampling old records and even intentionally degrading the sound quality.
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** Bonus points for referencing classic games such as ''[[Dragon Quest I]], [[Dragon Quest II|II]] & [[Dragon Quest III|III]]'' and ''[[Breath of Fire]] II'' in that video.
* 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 [[
* [[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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* [[TNT]]'s 10th studio album, The New Territory, is intentionally mixed and mastered to sound like a 1970s rock record, seeing as the entire album is a tribute to them.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYzKVTTujs "Technicolor Dreams"] by [[The Bee Gees]]. Sounds like the 1930s, released in 2001.
== [[Music Videos]] ==
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* In fact, almost any use of video (as opposed to film) footage in a modern music video falls into this:
** The Strokes' video for their 2001 single "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOypSnKFHrE Last Nite]"
** Stone Temple Pilots' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0gAxuvo5rc "Big Bang Baby"], which was not only shot on video but even uses 1980s-era video effects.
** Arctic Monkeys' 2006 video for their song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm69M3jtZl4 I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor]"
** Oxford Collapse's 2008 video for their song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16XlqgMdQgs Young Love Delivers]"
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* "Closer" by [[Nine Inch Nails]].
* silverchair's video for [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=h7dGlFgw12I "Across The Night"] was done entirely in the manner of early 20th-century black and white surrealistic film.
* The Mindless Self Indulgence song 'Shut Me Up' has the framing device of a 50s Public Awareness Announcement, complete with grainy black-and-white clips taken from the movie ''[[
* [[Rob Zombie]]'s video for "Living Dead Girl" combines this with a massive [[Homage]] to ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]''.
* Sum41's video for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUultIb2pPc We're All To Blame] takes place on the 1980s TV series ''Solid Gold'', complete with glitter and spandex-clad dancers has 70s/80s era effects and even plugs their [[Fake Band|hair metal alter-ego band]]. More jarring is the fact the band is wearing 2000-era clothes, [[Soundtrack Dissonance|singing a very serious song.]]
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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.
* [[WWE]] decided to do an "old school" night on ''Raw'' in November of 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 and Dragons]]'' if Gygax and Arneson used Greek mythology instead of medieval fantasy and it's also a playable as well.
* "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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== Theater ==
* Christopher Fry's 1948 play ''The Lady's Not for Burning'' is written in the style of a Shakespearean comedy.
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** As well as everyone switching to their earlier/original designs, including Sora, who switches to a simple version of his original outfit.
*** It actually gets even more meta: he looks like a character straight out of an ''[[Astro Boy]]'' manga-era [[Osamu Tezuka]] work.
* Mr. [[Game and Watch|Game & Watch]], a living, walking LCD character in the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' series who just came out of a [[Department of Redundancy Department|LCD]] game what with being essentially a 2D stickman, his very limited animation and the only sounds effects he produces consisting of beeps and boops.
* The [[Rhythm Game]] ''[[Donkey Konga]] 3'' includes a version of the theme from the original ''Donkey Konga'' done in NES-syle.
* ''Call of Duty 4: [[Modern Warfare]]'' uses this in two places.
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* ''[[House of the Dead]]: Overkill'' takes a page from ''Grindhouse'' and manages to turn the franchise into [[Up to Eleven|even more of a terrible B-movie game than it already is]].
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKUD2sLE5rM They've come for brains.] [[So Bad It's Good|You'll give them... bullets.]]"
* ''[[La-Mulana|La.MuLANA]]'' is a 2005 indie PC game with a striking resemblence to MSX games, complete with limited boss animations, SSCC channel music, and flipbook-style scrolling, the latter of which many MSX platformers, such as ''Knightmare II: Maze of Galious'' and ''[[Castlevania|Vampire Killer]]'', utilized due to the MSX's poor scrolling capabilities.
** Similarly, ''GR3'', developed by the same people who worked on ''La.MuLANA'', is designed to mimic the MSX ''Gradius'' games, complete with the graphics, HUD, two-option limit, and jerky scrolling.
* [[Baldurs Gate II]] [[Throne Of Baal]] had a quest in the Tower where the player had to let go of the main character, and play a [[Dialogue Tree]] driven pen and paper RPG in order to obtain a [[MacGuffin]].
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* Independent PC game ''8-bit Killer'', is a [[First-Person Shooter]] with NES-style graphics, sound effects and music.
* In ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]'', the older super robots such as Baldios, [[God Sigma]] and [[Getter Robo]] G get some very awesome retro-looking animations in their finisher attacks, COMPLETE WITH CHOPPY ANIMATION AND TRIPPY RETRO "LASER BACKGROUNDS" AND PASTEL-FRAME EXPLOSIONS! This is a first for the franchise and was the key to [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|exciting many people]] who weren't very excited about the game initially and also demonstrates the degree of love the designers have for the older shows, preserving them in all their glory. Needless to say, many mech-anime fan tears of joy were shed.
* ''[[Nostalgia]]'' provides [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] as an unabashed love letter to old [[Eastern RPG|Eastern RPGs]].
* ''[[Video Games/Darwinia|Darwinia]]'' provides a pseudo-retro style graphics with very little textures and many of the characters are 2D sprites. In addition, game intros provide homage to the older times. One is ZX Spectrum loading screen. Another is a deliberate recreation of Cracktros which tells how it's been cracked by DMA Crew. The Steam release got delayed by an hour because it was thought to be authentic.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 4]]'' for Xbox Live and PSN is a return to the gameplay from the first three ''Sonic'' games, though the graphics are not retraux 16-bit but rather 2D sprites built out of pre-rendered 3D models (ala ''[[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong Country]]''). The [[Broken Base]] is still as bad as ever, though.
** Game Land Zone from ''[[Sonic Colors]]''. The layout of the levels are basic replicas of the levels from the classic ''Sonic'' games, and the music played in the levels are a 8-bit chiptune-styled remix of the music from the main game.
* In ''[[Okami]]'': The song during the narrator's closing words. If you actually sit and wait after the music pauses, an [[Chiptune|8-bit remix]] of the song "Ida Race" starts to play.
** There were also official renditions of some of the game's areas as NES RPG style maps.
* ''[[Evil Genius (video game)|Evil Genius]]'' has a very 60s style to it, meant to evoke the campy spy movies it's based on.
* [[Exile|Any]] [[Avernum|games]] by [[Geneforge|Spiderweb]] [[Sub Terra|Software]] are about ten years behind normal games in both their style and their engines, although they advance at the same rate as the rest of the industry. There is a very good reason for this: they have a development team of three people, and if they tried to make modern-style games they wouldn't be able to finish them at a reasonable pace.
* ''[[VVVVVV]]'' feels like some lost computer game from the 1980s, with monochromatic sprites, screen-by-screen gameplay à la ''[[Jet Set Willy]]'' and ''[[Monty On The Run]]'', and even an authentic [[Commodore 64]] font for in-game text.
* Team Meat, the developers behind ''[[Meat Boy|Super Meat Boy]]'', released an iOS tie-in game designed to invoke LCD gaming like [[Game and Watch]] and Tiger Handheld.
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* 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 88]].
* 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.
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' is a very detailed civilization building and exploration simulator set in a [[High Fantasy]] world... that happens to be illustrated entirely in ASCII.
** Donators can ask for "ASCII Art" that depicts part of a story in Dwarf Fortress style Ascii. Donators who continue to donate get to continue this story.
* The Flash game ''[[Tower of Heaven]]'' has graphics in shades of green that would look at home on the original [[Game Boy]].
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* 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 ''[http://wretcher.com/ Wretcher]'' is an attempt to mimic old horror adventure games, and uses a 16-bit style remniscent of the ''[[Clock Tower (series)|Clock Tower]]'' games.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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** 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 [http://vimeo.com/2776328 Kings of Power 4 Billion %]-- the most awesome old-school video games that never actually existed.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** 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.
** ''[[Married to The Sea]]'', from the people who do ''[[Toothpaste For Dinner]]'' and ''[[Natalie Dee]]'', follows the same formula as Wondermark, except in single-panel format.
* ''The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats'' is a webcomic based on [[LOLcats]] made to look like it's from the early 1900s.
* The back cover of the first ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' prequel book describes the deliberate choice of greyscale as "Past-O-Vision". The use of crayons to illustrate the "dawn of time" backstories also invokes this trope.
* In commemoration to Geocities shutting down... Behold! ''[[Xkcd]]'' redesigned as a classic [[The Nineties|90s]] [http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/8049/xkcdredesign.png Geocities site]! Complete with broken html, pointless marquees, and flashing background graphics.
* The ''[[Jet Dream (webcomic)|Jet Dream]]'' comics (and sister titles ''It's Cookie!'' and ''My Jet Dream Romance'') are presented as if they were actual comic books published in the late '60s and early '70s by an obscure publisher obsessed with [[Gender Bender|male-to-female sex changes]].
** 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.
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** The artist did it again in early 2012, with a "Municipal City" series, centered on Commander Marvel, that is supposedly fragments of a long-lost 1950s newspaper comic.
* 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 ==
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* [[The Totally Rad Show]]: [http://revision3.com/trs/5_12_86 5/12/86] - where the whole show is done in the style of a 1980s public access 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.}}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-7jPXvPEA This fake trailer] depicts what ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' would have been like as a [[John Hughes]]-esque [[The Eighties|Eighties]] teen movie. Bonus points for including period music, an Orion Pictures logo and VHS artifacts; if you ignore the obvious parody bits, you could ''easily'' mistake it for an actual '80s trailer from an old videocassette.
* One of the more unnerving "photos" of [[Slender Man]] is [http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/wp-content/uploads/Slender-Man-2.jpg designed] to look like it was taken in the early [[The Nineties|Nineties]]. Details of note include a date watermark and added graininess, the latter of which is more pronounced due to the camera distortions that always pop up when Slendy is around.
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** Additionally, one episode featured clips of the Warners guest-starring on such old cartoons as ''[[Yogi Bear|Calhoon Capybara]]'', ''[[Western Animation/Scooby-Doo|Oohooroo, Where Are You]]'', and ''[[Fat Albert|Obese Orson]]''. For the clips, the producers carefully made sure the animators replicated the low-budget feel of the cartoons parodized.
* The short-lived ''Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?'' was deliberately drawn to resemble a late 1970s/early 1980s vintage cartoon.
* ''[[How to Hook Up Your Home Theater]]'' basically takes 1940s [[Goofy]] and puts him in a contemporary setting. You can read about this [http://animated-views.com/2007/deja-and-henn-on-the-return-of-the-goof here].
* There were a couple of [[Scooby Doo]] made-for-video movies in 2002-2003, ''Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire'' and ''Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico'', that were deliberately done in a retro 1970s-esque style to resemble the old ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?'' cartoon series (something that ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'' and the other made-for-video movies generally avoided), even going as far as bringing back the original voice actresses for Daphne and Velma (as [[Frank Welker]] was already Fred and Scooby-Doo's main voice actor, and [[Casey Kasem]] was still available to voice Shaggy any time he was needed), using synth/keyboard remakes of the classic Scooby-Doo background music, featuring many of the old Hanna-Barbera sound effects and even putting the gang in their classic 1970s outfits and designing them in the same manner.
** In ''Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase'', the gang is sucked into a video game about their adventures. In the final level they meet themselves (or rather, their video game doubles), who are drawn in the older style.
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** The episode "Reincarnation" has three different segments each done in a different retro style: an early 1930s black and white cartoon, a 1980s 8-bit video game, and a 1970s anime.
* In ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'', the [["Previously On..."]] segments are done in the style of old movies, complete with a grainy sepia effect and an over-excited announcer.
* ''[[Scooby Doo Mystery Inc]]'' has the clothing style and style similar to the first series.
** In the episode "The Mystery Solvers Club State Finals", the [[Dream Sequence]] uses the original [[Hanna-Barbera]] designs, a sharp contrast to the new series' modern drawing style.
* The ''[[Peanuts]]'' movie ''Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown'' is hand-drawn, has the same style as the classic series, and has voices to a similar effect of the originals.
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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]] ==
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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 is being painted the "only in the 60's" shade of "Galaxy Gold" paint that it was during the 1962 World's Fair.
* In the 1990s, [[McDonald's]] built several drive-thru-only locations in the style of the earliest restaurants.
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