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* The ''[[Fallout]]'' series is set in an alternate universe post-apocalyptic 1950s with many references to 50s culture, including a collection of period appropriate songs, most prominently featured in ''Fallout 3'' where the player can tune into Three Dog's radio show for some easy listening while wandering the Capital Wasteland.
* Back during the [[Follow the Leader|"Introspective Vietnam FPS"]] craze, many companies invoked this trope. Seeing as how a great deal of developers probably weren't born until the tail end of the war, it should be easy to see why they wouldn't think of adding in stuff that wasn't easily available on a Greatest Hits compilation.
* Used as a plot point in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] Peace Walker''; Big Boss obtains a recording of his mentor's voice talking to an Englishwoman he doesn't recognize. The only problem is that in the background of the recording, the Live In Japan of the song "Sing" by The Carpenters is playing, a song that was a hit in 1974, and [[Back
* The soundtracks of ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]: [[Grand Theft Auto Vice City|Vice City]]'', ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|San Andreas]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories|Vice City Stories]]'' are all heavily stacked with hits from [[The Eighties]] (in the case of the former and the latter) and the [[The Nineties|early '90s]] (in the case of ''San Andreas'').
** Averted with several songs, which may sound and feel like the 80's/90's, but are not necessarily widely remembered hits, many being acts that are majorly unknown for people who didn't live in that time period.
* Averted with the game version of ''[[The Warriors (video game)|The Warriors]]'', which in addition to the songs from the movie itself (which are themselves quite obscure to most post-Seventies audiences, with the exception of the cover of "Nowhere to Run") also has catchy - but not well-remembered - disco and pop songs that were only minor hits at the time the narrative is taking place (1978-1979). The list of artists includes Mandrill, Love Deluxe, Vivian Vee, and others whom only diehard fans of Seventies music will ever even have heard of. There's even a slightly anachronistic punk song on the soundtrack that is actually from the early Eighties, but ''sounds'' like it could be from the Seventies.
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