Today's aesthetic: cosmic horror tabletop RPGs from the 1980s whose creators wrote the "madness rules" by simply plagiarising a list of disorders and their descriptions from the DSM-II and turning it into a d100 lookup table, except the DSM-II still listed "homosexuality" as a mental disorder (it wasn't removed until the DSM-III), with the result that there are several published tabletop RPGs where there's a small but non-zero chance that seeing Cthulhu will make you gay.
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Game Back Cover to AI Art - Quarth
Older video games were notorious for back cover descriptions that have nothing to do with the game so lets see what a text to image generator makes of these descriptions.
Some descriptions have had to be cut down slightly due to text length limits but the overall sentence structure has been maintain as much as possible.
Quarth is a top down action puzzle game developed by Konami and released in Arcades in 1989 with ten addition releases over the year, the most recent in 2021 for the PS4 and Switch.
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Tabletop Pac-Man in Amsterdam, 1984. Photo by Han Singels.
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Chuck Norris Superkicks - 1983 - Atari 2600
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Playing the PAL Commodore 64 game "The Way of the Exploding Fist" in VICE, "the Versatile Commodore Emulator." Fist is a 1985 C64 fighting game, later released as a free download by its developer/publisher Beam Software.
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No Elves -- Ad for the Talislanta RPG system from Bard Games, Dragon magazine 135, July 1988, featuring PD Breeding Black's illustration of an Araq from A Naturalist's Guide to Talislanta
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