Bash Bash Revolution by Douglas Lain

Author:Douglas Lain
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 2018-02-27T05:00:00+00:00

Mom in the Retro Motel

MATTHEW MUNSON, 544-23-1102, FACEBOOK POSTS 04/21/17

3:05 PM

Mom found a game she likes in the new economy.

This morning, rather than making coffee and toast, she plugged a pair of augmented reality goggles into her Android phone and transformed our green formica kitchen table into a bar in a nightclub using a new app called The Retro Motel. I found her, still in her floral-print pajamas, pacing the kitchen, stepping this way and that around invisible objects, talking not to herself but to NPCs who I couldn’t see, while gesturing at and grabbing objects that were really just air.

I tried to stop her, actually, grabbed her arm, but she was quick and pretty strong. She just kept pacing, jumping this way and that, ignoring my objections and staying out of reach. Then, after just a couple of minutes, she just turned, sat down at the kitchen table, and ordered herself a drink.

During gameplay for The Retro Motel, the augmented reality goggles become opaque, so no light from the real environment was reaching her, and when I tried to talk to her, she couldn’t hear me, or wouldn’t let herself get distracted.

The logo for the game, the thumbnail, is a panel from an old comic strip. A pixelated blonde woman with TERF bangs and a leopard-skin jacket shares the frame with a speech balloon. She’s saying, “I’m nostalgic for what I can’t remember.”

Reading the notes for the app, I find out that The Retro Motel is a social media platform and a role-playing game apparently written by, or at least based on the works of, Douglas Coupland.

I’m pretty sure that Bucky is the true author. This is the algorithm’s attempt to generate content that can reach a new demographic. Just another way Bucky is bringing the GameCube economy to non-gamers. It’s not really a game at all, not even a story, but just a bunch of computer-generated content based on old media. It’s basically fan service for Generation X.

“It’s ironic that so many have forgotten the recent past even as Hollywood directors and game developers only recycle what came before. We’ve forgotten history even as we’ve become mired down in a nostalgic mode, and most of the games and other content out there get the details of the past totally wrong. The Retro Motel, on the other hand, remembers the 90s for you, and remembers them accurately.

“In The Retro Motel, players can choose between social chat and more conventional game play just as easily as they choose between a bottle of Zima or a dirty martini. The 90s aesthetic on display in The Retro Motel goes beyond glow-in-the-dark, press-on stars and minimalist beige furniture. You’ll feel like you’re really there again, even if you never were there to begin with.

“Come listen to some of the decade’s most prominent social critics explain what it might have all meant. Just why did smart drugs and internet cafes arise at the same time? Why did so many twenty-somethings publish zines even as

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