Cassette Futurism

More PLACEHOLDER art. Dupa Genetics tour boy.

I needed something to allow you to fast travel and offer some other features like play cassettes you find in game. I basically took the idea from the Louvre which uses Nintendos for digital tours, which is pretty neat.

Bonus points if you know the console I’m using as placeholder art here. I remember look at my brothers old Hyper magazines and wanting it bad.

Getting real close to finishing constructing all the puzzles for the second half of the game. Then to the object interactions/dialogue, then insane art crunch, then voice acting :D Then polish the shit out of it.

Almost overnight, their advertisements were everywhere, but no one remembered putting them onto the walls. When broken down, the sad creaking plastic of their inexpensive machines revealed strange fractal circuits indicative of no known technological origin.

The machines were a range of typical business devices. Mainframes and consoles used to control the creation, flow, and consumption of information. They were cheap and efficient, but some users reported the distinct sensation of being observed.

Automatics normally carry material in a most efficient pattern for weight distribution and stability, but not when hauling these machines. They twisted and contorted, keeping the device aligned relative to distant points in space, as if part of a greater pattern.

Just as quickly, the machines were gone. An inquiry into the company was made, but nothing would be found. Not even an office or a name, as if the machines vanished back into the walls once they finished their unknowable task.

Digital memories of automatics held no memory of the event. Audiovisual tape recordings of the machines would melt on playback. All that remained in the end was human memory, and with time, even that would be gone.

NBT Desk Manager
E-FAS Desktop Machine
B-NAS Stacked Portable Machine
E-NT Focused Monitor
P-DI5 Personal Assistant
MS Human Hand Peripheral

Historical information

A talking book player that allowed the user to change the tone and speed of cassettes played in it. Designed to handle both 4 track and 2 track cassettes, these players were the perfect solution to having both commercial (2 track) and recordings for the blind (4 track) materials without needing separate players. Tonal changes in particular were sometimes required by older listeners, as aging reduces the ability to distinguish high pitch sounds. Speed variability also allowed those who read faster to increase narration, and to slow down reading patterns for listeners with acquired brain injury or other conditions that affected cognitive processing of language.

Physical description

Blue plastic rectangular talking book player with buttons for navigational controls and 5 buttons.

Source: Dark Roasted Blend: Flash Dance: Digital Dashboards of the 1980s