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[[File:MegaMan9BoxArt350px 4368.jpg|link=Mega Man 9|frame|Now playing on a [[Wii]], [[
Sometimes media are produced in an intentionally old-fashioned style, designed with the intentional appearance of being decades older than is actually the case.
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* 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.
* [[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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* 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.
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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]].
== Literature ==
* ''[[Jonathan Strange
* ''[[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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* ''[[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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== [[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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* [[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.
** ''[[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.
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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.
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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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* The Indie Game ''[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.
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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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