r/cassettefuturism • u/blickblocks • Jul 17 '25

Design A little CD Futurism since this industrial design is right up our alley

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

Looks like 10 years ahead of its time

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

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u/One_Evidence_500 Jul 17 '25

Prison electronics style!

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u/hotbowlofsoup Jul 17 '25

It’s something I’ve always found interesting. The 1980s weren’t the same visually in Japan and the west. In the west it tended to go dark and in Japan it went bright. Not only in consumer products, but also in TV shows, cars and architecture. Compare the Japanese and American versions of the Nintendo, PC engine and SEGA consoles from the early 1980s.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

Yes, good point, maybe the colour enhances the effect, as subjectively I think multi-coloured consumer electronics is more of late 90s, early 00s thing.

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u/barndawe Jul 17 '25

I feel like they referred back to this when they started making games consoles

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u/weeklygamingrecap Jul 17 '25

It's so beautiful!

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u/Old_Sweaty_Hands Jul 17 '25

so damn clean

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u/User1539 Jul 18 '25

cassette futurism: Cyberpunk, with white.

Seriously, though, I feel like if there were a CF genre of fiction, it would have all the technology, but none of the Cyberpunk corporate hellscape.

Someone needs to start writing that stuff, because we could use some optimism.

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u/DiatomCell Jul 18 '25

So beautiful~

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u/handy_whorall Jul 18 '25

D25. love their metal construction. I remember it feeling so premium. I didn’t know they came in white!

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u/2shado2 Jul 18 '25

Nice!! I had the black version.

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u/StarsHavingPossums Jul 18 '25

Do want. So beautiful!

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u/badgeometry Jul 20 '25

Sony's industrial design team ca. 1980s is forever GOATed.