Two Decades Behind: Difference between revisions

* Though set in the 1990s and made in 1994, the world of ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]'' still bears more resemblance to the eighties. Payphones are still everywhere, no-one seems to have personal computers, some of the language (in the English version) falls into [[Totally Radical]] territory, and Ness's attire isn't all that different from that of [[MOTHER|his predecessor Ninten]], whose game actually was set and made in the eighties; most other characters' attire is also quite eighties-like. In fairness, creator [[Shigesato Itoi]] is Japanese, not American, and one of the key points of the series was to show America as interpreted by another country based on its media output, so it could be recursive: it's still the eighties in ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]'' [[Fridge Brilliance|because it was still the eighties in quite a lot of contemporary American media]].

* Done deliberately in ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]''. While set in the present day, the greaser gang looks like it [[The Fifties|stepped out of]] ''[[American Graffiti]]'' or ''[[West Side Story]]'', the nerds play a ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' clone, the cars look like they're from [[The Eighties]], the computers look like they're from [[The Nineties]] at the latest, and nobody has an MP3 player or a [[Cell Phone]] (though it is mentioned that they're banned at Bullworth High School). [[Word of God]] is that this was deliberate, so as to not date the game to a particular era.

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