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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). Can overlap with [[Newer Than They Think]] when done especially well.
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== Anime ==
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* ''[[Hobo With a Shotgun]]'' is made to look like it was made in the early '80s, complete with Technicolor, music, and film grain.
* Most films by [[Quentin Tarantino]] are full of this, being [[George Lucas Throwback|George Lucas Throwbacks]].
* ''[[Grindhouse]]'', a '70s [[B
** 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
* The 2005 ''[[HP Lovecraft|The Call of Cthulhu]]'' 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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** Many viewers complained about the unrealistic [[Reality Is Unrealistic|over-the-top-ness]] of the 'actor portraying McCarthy'.
* This trope is a specialty of Larry Blamire:
** ''[[The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra]]'' is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the 1950s [[B
** ''[[Trail Of The Screaming Forehead]]'' is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of a slightly different sort of SF film - a '60s extravaganza shot in widescreen (Craniascope!) and vivid color.
** ''[[Dark and Stormy Night]]'' goes back to the '30s to parody the [[Old Dark House]] genre.
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* ''[[Kung Pow]]'' 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? (Film)|Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'' is made to look like an animated theatrical short from the 1940s, when the movie is set.
* ''[[Serenity (Film)|Serenity]]'', see ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' below.
* Several parts in ''[[CSA Confederate States of America]]'' are made to look like older films, including an old, silent movie.
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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 [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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== [[Video Games]] ==
* 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
** 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 (Video Game)|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.
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* ''[[No More Heroes]]'' features a number of throwbacks to 8-bit games, including 8-bit music at some points, a pixellated tiger that serves as a timer for your special moves, a high score board that appears after each ranked battle, and even a top-down scrolling shooter minigame. The sequel turned the menial task side missions into 8-bit-style minigames as well.
* ''[[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
* ''[[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.
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* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: Oracle of Ages'' and ''Oracle of Seasons'', you have access to a ring later in the game that makes you look like 8-bit Link from the original 1986 game.
* Released for Nintendo DSiWare is ''[[Dark Void]] Zero'', which is basically ''Dark Void'' reworked as an 8-bit action side-scrolling platformer. It was even marketed with a fictional development history, saying that it was originally developed for the PlayChoice-10, taking advantage of the technology available. It also supposedly featured "System Zero", a chipset that increased the limitations of the NES. Capcom found the promotional materials for the game and began tracking down a surviving copy of it, and found that a promotional prototype copy of a home version was given away to a young [[Jimmy Fallon]]. It was this version of the game that the DSiWare version was supposedly based on. [http://www.capcom-unity.com/shana/blog/2010/01/18/the_mysterious_history_of_dark_void_zero! More details are here.] [http://www.capcom-unity.com/shana/blog/2010/01/25/vaporware_no_longer_–_the_resurrection_of_an_unreleased_classic! Part 2] describes the attempts to get the supposed ROM working.
* Independent PC game ''8-bit Killer'', is a [[First
* 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]].
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* The [[Nintendo 3DS]]'s Virtual Console allows you to play Game Boy and Game Boy Color games, and added a few Retraux touches to enhance the experience: for example, on original Game Boy games it's possible to swap between a grayscale screen and a green screen that emulates the look of the original Game Boy, even including a motion blur similar to that in the old system. It's also possible to view the games in their original resolution, with a border representing the original system surrounding the screen- the 3DS's 3D effect is used to give the appearance of the screen being set back from the border, and they even emulated the battery light dimming as the 3DS's battery runs low.
* 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 (Video Game)|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 (Animation)|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 (Video Game)|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).
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** Furthermore, they occasionally make toons in their own older style, like [http://www.homestarrunner.com/stuckincraw.html "The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck In His Craw"].
** Let's not forget [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!:
{{quote| '''Kaiba''': "Your brash nature offends me, Mr. Moto! I shall soon put an end to your impertinence!"<br />
'''Yami''': "You have assembled several creatures! Surely this is a violation?"<br />
'''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 [http://vimeo.com/2776328 Kings of Power 4 Billion %]-- the most awesome old-school video games that never actually existed.
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* ''[[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 [[
* The back cover of the first ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|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 (Webcomic)|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
* ''[[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.
* ''[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."
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* 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.
* ''[[The Onion]]'' published a book called "Our Dumb Century" featuring fake front pages of the paper throughout the 20th century starting in 1900.
* For [[April Fools' Day]] 2011, [[YouTube]] added a button that would turn the video you're watching into sepia tones, add jittering and scan lines, and replace the audio with jazz music. Its featured video that day was of a few of its most famous videos redone in this style.
** Even more brilliantly: if you were watching a video that used YouTube's subtitle functionality, the text would appear as intertitles as in a silent film.
* ''[[Red vs. Blue (Machinima)|Red vs. Blue]]'' does this when Church is sent back in time. They use an earlier [[Bungie]] game, ''[[Marathon (Video Game)|Marathon]]'', instead of the more modern ''[[Vidogame/Halo|Halo]]'' engine for all the footage in that time period. As the show always upgrades to the latest Halo engine when they become available, it might be that they used ''Marathon'' due to it being the oldest game in the "series."
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** If there were an early 1990s ''Watchmen'' cartoon, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w&feature=related this would be it.]
*** 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
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* In ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|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
* 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.
* ''[[Regular Show]]'' has a very washed-out color scheme, the soundtrack is sourced from a lot of '80s bands, and the characters always play retro-styled video games on a [[Sega Master System]].
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* 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, [[
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