Coolest, Most 80's Feeling Side Art Ever?

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I think I found it. As some of you know, I have been scratch building a Data East cabinet to install my nice Karnov kit into. Well, while building it, I have been researching which other DE games would also fit in the cab, as I assume Karnov will inevitably get old. The first additional DE kit I am piecing together is Vigilante. I bought a PCB, marquee and bezel. While looking for a populated CP or a nice NOS CPO (which I still need, hint hint), I stumbled across 1 piece of NOS Vigilante side art. I'm not sure if it's the florescent colors, the chick's hairstyle, the dude's 'aerobic' outfit (including wrist bands), the dude's high tops or the graffiti-on-the-brick-wall routine, but something about this side art just screams 80's and I love it. It's also round, which is just an awesomely odd shape for 'kit-based' side art, as no cab that I know of has rounded contours. I wish I was in Steve's Gang. I bet we'd kick ass.

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hmmm....not sure I am feeling it. I was not playing video games anymore when that game was released. I think there is a huge difference between the arcade scene in the early 80s (1980-84) and the rest of the decade after the bottom fell out. But I could see how for certain people this would bring back fond memories of the late 1980s.
 
hmmm....not sure I am feeling it. I was not playing video games anymore when that game was released. I think there is a huge difference between the arcade scene in the early 80s (1980-84) and the rest of the decade after the bottom fell out. But I could see how for certain people this would bring back fond memories of the late 1980s.

+1. That image is very late 80s to me.
 
hmmm....not sure I am feeling it. I was not playing video games anymore when that game was released. I think there is a huge difference between the arcade scene in the early 80s (1980-84) and the rest of the decade after the bottom fell out. But I could see how for certain people this would bring back fond memories of the late 1980s.

Yeah, I'm talkin' 1984-1989. The early 80's were cool, but it was definitely different than the later 80's. Reagan's first term was vastly different from his 2nd term, though I didn't notice at the time. They were showing stock footage of one of his speeches on TV while I was at the gym the other night and for some reason it just felt right, like it was 1987 again.
 
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Yeah, I'm talkin' 1984-1989. The early 80's were cool, but it was definitely different than the later 80's. Reagan's first term was vastly different from his 2nd term, though I didn't notice at the time. They were showing stock footage of one of his speeches on TV while I was at the gym the other night and for some reason it just felt right, like it was 1987 again.

I think around Iran Contra people were getting kind of tired of him but he was still very popular. It's commonplace to bash him now, which is a shame, because he was truly the last person to have the job and command respect worldwide. I've been to his presidential library and that place is truly the ultimate 1980s trip down memory lane. One of these days we are going to have a classic arcade show there....they do rent out space there for those kinds of events...that would truly be the coming of age for this hobby....
 
I too was out of the arcade scene for the most part in the late 80s. The sideart that really screams 80s to me is Journey.
 
Is that the game where you can pick up pipes and beat on people with it and there are some fight scenes in a subway car???
You're thinking of Crime Fighters.

To me, Vigilante feels like a very "90s" title, despite being released in the late 80s (1988).

Any of a hundred 1980-1984 games' artwork feels like the 80s, Q*Bert, Pac-Man, Centipede, etc..
 
Yeah, I'm talkin' 1984-1989. The early 80's were cool, but it was definitely different than the later 80's. Reagan's first term was vastly different from his 2nd term, though I didn't notice at the time. They were showing stock footage of one of his speeches on TV while I was at the gym the other night and for some reason it just felt right, like it was 1987 again.

Direct TV channel called "the Hub" plays reruns of ALF , I usually watch it while I eat dinner and get instantly time warped back to 1987 . TV was a MILLION times better in the 80's .
 
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