Ultimate 80's Memories Thread - Part 2 - The 80s Strikes Back

[Ninja]

 

[Adamant]

When Metal Ruled The World!

 

[Ace of Spade]

This Amazing '80s Arcade Is the Best Virtual Reality Trip Yet!

The Oculus Rift VR headset can take you to incredible fictional places, like scene from gorgeous movies like Interstellar or Spirited Away. Last night, it took me somewhere more grounded in reality, but still spectacular: my own personal, deliciously retro '80s arcade.

The New Retro Arcade, by Digital Cybercherries, easily ranks among my favorite virtual reality experiences thus far. That could be because I'm a nerdy gamer, sure, but it also could be the incredible variety of things you can actually do inside this CRT-tastic game palace.

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Yes, that's a video. Press the play button!

Walking along the ridiculously patterned carpet and taking in the dizzying deluge of light and sound, I found that I could play practically every arcade game I laid eyes on, with their buttons and joysticks actually responding to my commands as digital "scanlines" occluded their old-school CRT screens.

There's Tetris, Q-Bert, Missile Command, Asteroids, Joust and plenty more, plus a few anachronistic additions like Flappy Bird and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX. (It looks like Digital Cybercherries is using a Game Boy Color emulator to actually run the games.)

But you don't have to have your nose stuck in a virtual arcade cabinet the whole time; there's also a fully operational two-lane bowling alley, a working dartboard, two basketball machines, and a bunch of original Game Boy handhelds lying around, all playable. You can even find cassette tapes with '80s music and stick them into a boombox, then carry it around the arcade with you. Because what's cooler than playing Missile Command while jamming to The Final Countdown?

Hit "Expand" to check out the insane attention to detail on this Game Boy.

Between the games themselves and the incredibly immersive environment—covered in classic movie posters and bathed in neon and virtual cigarette smoke—it felt like a place I could just chill out for a while, and come back every so often to get away from some of the real screens in my non-digital world. I haven't been able to say that about any other VR experience so far.

Link

That was very cool... thanks Adamant.

 

[Ace of Spade]

Mother of God! Advertisements were so much better back in the day.

Yes... very cool poster.

 

[Adamant]

Got this in the mail a couple weeks ago.

 

[JAGDPANZER209]

 

[EvilDDS]

Probably mentioned already, but how about Clara Peller, 80s icon for a brief time working for Wendy's

Spoiler

 

[EvilDDS]

Mother of God! Advertisements were so much better back in the day.

Haha, damn, where did you dig that up? Yep, they definitely had great advertisements for games back in the day.

Similar to the one you posted, was Jungle King, used to love playing this game

And it advertisement, placed in spoiler because it's large

Spoiler

 

[EvilDDS]

And did anyone ever try this cereal?

 

[I Am Legion]

Some 80s cars I have owned (same color not exact cars)

 

[I Am Legion]

True Rock stars, not auto tuned manufactured pop rock crap.

 

[bowened]

Some 80s cars I have owned (same color not exact cars)

Sick. Was your Monte Carlo a SS?

 

[Shokushu Goukan]

is that bush on fire???

 

[ONApest MMA]

This Amazing '80s Arcade Is the Best Virtual Reality Trip Yet!

The Oculus Rift VR headset can take you to incredible fictional places, like scene from gorgeous movies like Interstellar or Spirited Away. Last night, it took me somewhere more grounded in reality, but still spectacular: my own personal, deliciously retro '80s arcade.

The New Retro Arcade, by Digital Cybercherries, easily ranks among my favorite virtual reality experiences thus far. That could be because I'm a nerdy gamer, sure, but it also could be the incredible variety of things you can actually do inside this CRT-tastic game palace.

[YT]gB9jCEXVQDk[/YT]

Yes, that's a video. Press the play button!

Walking along the ridiculously patterned carpet and taking in the dizzying deluge of light and sound, I found that I could play practically every arcade game I laid eyes on, with their buttons and joysticks actually responding to my commands as digital "scanlines" occluded their old-school CRT screens.

There's Tetris, Q-Bert, Missile Command, Asteroids, Joust and plenty more, plus a few anachronistic additions like Flappy Bird and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX. (It looks like Digital Cybercherries is using a Game Boy Color emulator to actually run the games.)

But you don't have to have your nose stuck in a virtual arcade cabinet the whole time; there's also a fully operational two-lane bowling alley, a working dartboard, two basketball machines, and a bunch of original Game Boy handhelds lying around, all playable. You can even find cassette tapes with '80s music and stick them into a boombox, then carry it around the arcade with you. Because what's cooler than playing Missile Command while jamming to The Final Countdown?

Hit "Expand" to check out the insane attention to detail on this Game Boy.

Between the games themselves and the incredibly immersive environment—covered in classic movie posters and bathed in neon and virtual cigarette smoke—it felt like a place I could just chill out for a while, and come back every so often to get away from some of the real screens in my non-digital world. I haven't been able to say that about any other VR experience so far.

Link

STFU AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!! wow.

 

[Adamant]

Haha, damn, where did you dig that up?

I just lucked into it.

 

[Adamant]

STFU AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!! wow.

That's what I said. And it appears to be a virtual reality arcade sim with actual fully playable arcade games. Talk about awesome!

I wish I knew more about it because I want it. I want it now!


(It reminded me of a scene in Ready Player One)

 

[JAGDPANZER209]

 

[Adamant]

Having gone through different types of biology classes.....

 

[EvilDDS]

Good to see this thread survived the migration, was looking for it the other day and couldn't find it, looks like things are getting back to normal

 

[TSO]

holy shit i wanted to fuck that smurfet little blue bag of whore

Smurfette was a boy.