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* ''[[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 latest DVD release for the show also has the DVDs looking like LPs.
* 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.
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* 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.
* The Orson Randall one shot issues of ''[[Immortal Iron Fist]]'' are often drawn in the style of pulp era artists.
* The ''[[Transformers]]'' April Fool's comic ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass|Shattered Expectations]]'' was done in the style of the Generation 2 comics - drawn similar to Derek Yaniger and full of [[Signature Style|Furmanisms]].
* A mild example in ''Ultimate Spider-Man: Requiem'' where in a flashback, the art goes back to Bagley's style, rather than the current penciller for the series, Immonen.
* A ''[[Stormwatch]]'' issue concentrating on the history of century-old [[The Authority|Jenny Sparks]] depicts her in each decade as she would have appeared in the comics of the time, with the 80s flashback in particular being a clear homage to ''[[Watchmen]]''.
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** 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.
* [[Tim Burton|The director]] and cinematographers of the film ''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]'' went out of their way to exaggerate the dark, grainy, ill-lit look of low-budget 1940s-1950s films.
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* The poster boy for this trope, ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] 9'' is done entirely as an NES-style game. That's right, ''a NES game on high-definition consoles'' (and [[Wii Ware]], where it makes a bit more sense). Up until the game's release, this was busily producing a [[Broken Base]] -- fortunately, it turned out to be so good, it consolidated ''Mega Man'' fandom in enjoyment instead. Capcom produced some fake NES carts for the game and commissioned the ridiculous "box art" picture shown at the top of the article (an homage to the famously [[So Bad It's Good]] [[wikipedia:File:Mega Man 1 box artwork.jpg|North American cover]] of ''1'' through ''3'', which had mostly nothing to do with the character). The game even has an option that lets you relive the glory days of NES sprite limitations by enabling sprites flickering when too many are on the screen at one time.
** And it continues on with ''10'', also in faux 8-bit sprites. Its faux box art has more-or-less the same style of Mega Man as 9's, with now-unlocked-from-the-start Proto Man joining the badly-drawn fun, and boasting "Dual FX Twin Engines" and a "Parallel Hyper-Bit Interface" much like how ''Mega Man 9'' promised an "Ultrasound Graphics Synthesis" and an "8-Bit Fidelity Engine". The [http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-the-mega-man-10/62738 "lost" commercial] for ''10'' comes complete with all the attitude of video game ads in the 80s and poor VCR tracking. (The commercial music, though, is [[Mega Man X|an anachronism of sorts]] for what is supposedly the 80s.)
* [[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 "[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.
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