Where did this aesthetic originate?
>sunny blue skies and beach
>upbeat jazzy fusion and pop
It was all over in late 80s and early 90s Japanese games, and Japanese pop culture in general. Where did it come from?
Where did this aesthetic originate?
Landon Johnson
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Kayden Kelly
it came from my anus
Luke Fisher
Luis Thompson
miami beat
Liam Morgan
yeah, it's miami vice
Caleb Cox
Look into the art of eizin Suzuki, city pop was big musically at the time as well, games like outrun are an extension of that overall aesthetic which was quite popular in Japan
Kayden Walker
I can't find anything about that show being popular in Japan though. How did it make it's way across the ocean?
Yeah that art is definitely the vibe I'm thinking of. If Eizin Suzuki was a pioneer of it do you happen to know what he was influenced by?
Noah Hill
Probably some outdated idealisation of America
Luke Myers
It wasn't popular, but a game developer in the 80s 90s japan isn't exactly the average rube either. Also, it's not just Miami Vice, but a larger american pop culture language at the time.
Jaxson Miller
Benjamin Adams
Hmm I’m not sure, it looks very similar to some pop art from the 60s, just with a focus on really saturated colors and 50s cars and aesthetic. If you want music similar to this some good entry points are tatsuro yamashita hiroshi satoh and Toshiki kadomatsu are good staying points. Plastic love by mariya Takeuchi is kind of the big hit song tho, so definitely check that one out.
Wyatt Flores
miami vice
Gabriel Green
Everyone is wrong.
It's from Top Gear on the snes.
Cameron Roberts
I knew it
Levi Hill
I call it "The Age of High Cut Bikinis and Fat Shaming"
Zachary James
SEGA SOVL
Caleb Johnson
It pisses me off that women don't want to look like this anymore.
Levi Morris
See this is what I mean, the translation from Miami Vice to this doesn't seem obvious to me. But I guess it was a mixture of things only one of which was Vice.
Jordan Gomez
That and other beach shows like Magnum PI and Riptide.
This aesthetic feels like a slightly harder edged 80s continuation of the 70s yacht rock vibe with the Memphis movement thrown in.
Austin Flores
Miami Vice kicked off a solid decade of beach aestheticism but the aesthetic as it's canonized in videogames is much more inspired by the cultural exports 90s northern California where everyone was surfing, skateboarding, moving to silicon valley, and adopting valley girl/surfer dude speech.
Andrew Moore
Probably has something to do with both the US and Japan's economies being very good in that era so you had a had a lot of hard working people who were enamored with relaxing by the beach and it became a whole aesthetic with the music, shows, video games, and clothing.
Camden Hernandez
God California looks so comfy back then.
Grayson Robinson
>Where did it come from?
Red State California, vidya companies had their home there