A fun review of the ‘totally wicked awesome’ 1980s… as a board-game
Anytime I see a message in my in-box from Ryan Huddle of the Victoria Advocate, I know there’s something interesting and fun waiting for me.
Aprill Brandon and Ryan Huddle of the Victoria Advocate.
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That was the case last night. Ryan — the Advocate’s design director — wrote:
I have tonight’s entertainment for you.
We are doing an 80’s edition for our M3 [the Advocate's weekly entertainment tab, which inserts on Fridays] and thought you might like to play a game.
I had two timelines left over. I didn’t want to do the same ol’ thing, so I decided to make a boardgame out of them.
And the best part is you can really play it.
Click for a larger view:
Ryan designed the page while his wife — features reporter Aprill Brandon — wrote it.
I hope the public has as much fun as I did when I played it. This brought back way to many memories for us here at the Advocate.
There’s a lot of fun stuff here. A few vignettes:
Yep. The first Batman movie. That was in 1989. Did you ever think they could find a better Joker than Jack Nicholson? They did, of course, but it took ‘em 19 years to do it.
Ah, the metal bikini. Who could have guessed what the princess had under those robes she had worn in the first two Star Wars movies?
Heh. I graduated high school in 1980 — 30 years ago this week, in fact — so I completely missed out on this trend.
Heh. I have it on CD and in my iTunes, of course. Not only that, but I also have “One Way or Another” and “Rapture.” The former gets a lot of plays. The latter, not so much.
I never had a “rattail,” but Sharon and I were so poor right after we got married in 1985 that we probably had our share of real rat tails rummaging around the apartment. If you know what I mean.
Click here to download a much larger, PDF version of Ryan’s Totally Wicked Awesome ’80s Board Game.
Average daily circulation for the Victoria Advocate is 33,549, but you’d never know it from this piece and others I’ve posted over the the years. The Advocate is one place that knows how to use its visual resources to great effect.
Previous cool movie-related stuff from Ryan and his crew:
- A blueprint treatment for this year’s Iron Man 2 movie.
- The teenage-themed vampire movie New Moon.
- Last summer’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
- A page-topper for last summer’s Star Trek movie.
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (scroll down a bit).
- Also from two years ago, The Dark Knight. (Scroll down for that one, as well. And then click here for more.)
- For Halloween, the Advocate produced a musical starring reporter April Brandon: Chupacabra: The Musical.
- Find a lot of additional movie treatments from Victoria here.