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A place to share and discuss Cassette Futurism: media where the technology closely matches the computers and technology of the 70s and 80s.

Whether it's bright colors and geometric shapes, the tendency towards stark plainness, or the the lack of powerful computers and cell phones, Cassette Futurism includes: Cassettes, ROM chips, CRT displays, computers reminiscent of microcomputers like the Commodore 64, freestanding hi-fi systems, small LCD displays, and other analog technologies.

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Officially Licensed Nintendo “Radio Boy” from 1992 (lemmy.likes.cat)

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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's what I'm saying! You can clearly see the real controls off to the side of the device. No effort was put into this thing. It was literally slapped together using off the shelf parts and a simple mold.

Would it have killed them to have used a basic digital tuner, and made the D-Pad function as tuning and volume at the very least? At least then they could have misleadingly marketed it has having an LCD display. But they couldn't even bother to do that.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Digital was expensive.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

They had cheap digital radios in the 90s. I was there. I remember them.