Learning specific networking protocols, they were able to jack in and connect to a global community over BBS and IRC. An old millenial doesn’t know what a Pokémon is, and god help you if you try to talk to them about All That.Īnd key to an old millennial’s nostalgia of the ‘90s is the Internet - specifically, the world of the untamed Internet. Joe or Transformers, and they haven’t stopped talking about them since. With a foot entrenched deeply in the ‘80s, they brought over some of their best cartoons, like G.I. Old millenials - who are really just left over Gen Xers that missed the cut off date - recall the 1990s as a decade far different than the one I remember. You just have to know the past to understand its retrofuture. Hypnospace replicates memories of this era of computing in a way I’ve seen few other pieces of media do, while making it its own. After all, it’s one thing to make an offhand GeoCities reference, it’s another to recreate the experience of being on that once-famous social portal. Using the trappings of the ‘90s Internet - remixed in its cyberfunk stylings - it hurls you back into this alternate past, a virtual netscape that’s teeming with users unfurling their creativity on their little corner of the ‘Net. These are all memorable components, and Hypnospace is sure to include them, but the game digs deeper. Evocations of this era of technology go for easily replicable visual and auditory cues - a modem screech, Microsoft Sam, the Jazz cup, “ you’ve got mail” - you get the idea.
HYPNOSPACE CHITCHAT SKIN
It’s getting harder to tell if we’ve reached some sort of nostalgia saturation point - so much of contemporary media exists to mine and exploit the little pockets of pure, crystalized joy we have attached to memories from our childhood, and the world of ‘90s computing is no less vulnerable.īut a lot of nostalgia-plays are only skin deep. It’s both eerily familiar and wholly different. An alternate past, where people don headbands while they sleep to enter the alternate reality of Hypnospace where folks collect SquisherZ monsters while they drink Grey’s Peak soda and listen to their favorite bands like Fre3zer and Chowder Man.
These games and awards were decided during the Wardcast’s Best Games Played 2019 episode, where we considered any and all games played by the members of the Wardcast in 2019, even if they weren’t released that calendar year.īut not our past.
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