Negative Space: eighties
- The History of the Information Highway
- How did a bunch of swinging apes go from the trees to the information highway?
- Pac-Man Fever
- I was wandering around the record stores a couple of years ago when I saw a full-length album called “Pac-Man Fever”. I vaguely recognized the title, but knew it only as a single. Could I resist buying an album of songs about eighties arcade games? Of course not.
- The tractor-feed dungeon
- This is it: my first megadungeon. Journey with us now back to the magical eighties. A time of transition, a time of morning in America, and a time of vampire sharks!
- Wonder Woman updated to the eighties
- Wonder Woman’s new update puts her straight into modern times, just in time to put out a new music video on that new MTV thing.
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- Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video
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You probably have to remember this song when it originally came out to truly enjoy this spoof, but I have been watching it over and over again for the last two days. It is just amazingly funny. Most of the “literal videos” I’ve seen afterwards are too literal; but Total Eclipse doesn’t just describe, it penetrates to the evil heart of the eighties. A lot of music videos used dream sequences, apparently out of the belief that things don’t have to be coherent in dream sequences. After a while videos dropped the dream sequence pretense because incoherence was the norm. At least this one didn’t have the band randomly pop up with their…
- Virtual Arcade from 1984
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One of Dave Dries’ very good 3D renderings of an arcade using MAME graphics and sounds. This one reminds me most of Tin Pan Alley in Ithaca, though it’s got more open space.
