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12	Some series are set in the present, or TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, or they're meant to have a sort of timelessness to them (which make it awkward whenever someone brings out [[TechnologyMarchesOn a cassette tape or a payphone]]), or else they're set in [[PeriodPiece the distant past]], so far back that no one who was alive at that time would be alive to shout "Hey! That's not how it was back in my day!"
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14	Then there are these pieces. Maybe they wanted to avoid certain things from today's society, like modern technology or the Internet, that they didn't have when they were a kid. Maybe the author was looking back to the "good ol' days". For one reason or another, they've chosen to set their show a couple decades back.
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16	Now, just slapping a "June 5th, 1976" on an establishing shot and then doing a MisterSandmanSequence isn't enough. The show's time period has to be readily evident from every frame. If it's set in [[TheSixties the 1960s]], they should listen to Music/TheBeatles and protest UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. If it's set in [[TheSeventies the 1970s]], some wistful mention of {{disco}} and classic rock should come up. If it's set in [[TheEighties the 1980s]], everyone should be [[EightiesHair blowing out their hair]] and wearing neon. If it's set in [[TheNineties the 1990s]]... you get the idea. It doesn't necessarily need to be TheThemeParkVersion of its decade, but it should be pretty blatant.
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18	Note that this differs from a PeriodPiece because of the nostalgia factor; if there's an obvious reason for the series to be set at a certain time, then it becomes a period piece. For example, [[Film/TheGreatGatsby1974 film]] [[Film/TheGreatGatsby2013 adaptations]] of ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' are set in TheRoaringTwenties because they're based on a novel that was not only written during that time period, but delved deeply into the era's pop culture, making it difficult to set in other time periods. Meanwhile, the film ''Film/FrostNixon'' is based on events from the 1970s, and so there's less of a nostalgic factor in the decision to set it in that time so much as historical accuracy. On the other hand, ''Literature/HarryPotter'', despite being set in the 1990s, wouldn't qualify because there's nothing nostalgic about the books, or really any indication of the decade it's in beyond the dates. We can't know for sure that the author is setting a work at some point in time because they're feeling nostalgic, but unless the work is based on something else (historical events or a work from that time period), then nostalgia is a logical assumption. In general, if you can picture the author of a work writing the script, and then deciding last minute to set it in such-and-such time period, then it counts as this trope.
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20	Furthermore, as a rule of thumb, the series' main creators should have been alive when the series is being set (more or less; it's possible to be nostalgic for your parents' era as well). It can't be too recent; anything set in the 21st century was a no-go until the late 2010s and early 2020s. On the other hand, if it's too old, it becomes less nostalgic and more of a period piece. For example, something set in [[TheRoaringTwenties the 1920s]] today is now considered a period piece. A good rule of thumb is anything set less than [[TwoDecadesBehind twenty]] or more than fifty years ago does not qualify, unless it is going out of its way to fixate on the most nostalgic elements of the period or homage other works that ''were'' straightforwardly nostalgic for it. As of 2010, [[TheFifties the 1950s]] had fully slipped into period piece territory, [[TheSixties the 1960s]] had started to go the same way, and [[TheNineties the 1990s]] started to enter nostalgia territory. As the 2020s go on, [[TurnOfTheMillennium the 2000s]] will start becoming nostalgic while [[TheSeventies the 1970s]] will start to become the domain of period pieces.
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22	Sub-trope of PeriodPiece. Compare {{Retraux}}, which is when the work is meant to ''look'' like it's from another time period, which has its own nostalgic value. May relate to RomanticismVersusEnlightenment as another reason to set a piece in an earlier time period. Has nothing to directly do with anything called {{Nostalgia}}, or ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'', or any of the many [[FollowTheLeader similar critics]]; the trope for that is CausticCritic.
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24	!!Examples (in order of the period when they're set):
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28	* ''Anime/SazaeSan'' began in 1969 and was dated even then. The manga began in the '40s and it shows. The anime has been [[LongRunners running non-stop]] and is certainly this more than ever. It's one of the top 5, if not the number 1, anime in Japan and is seen as a quaint story about a Showa-era {{housewife}} and her family.
29	* ''Manga/KidsOnTheSlope'' is a quaint slice of life work about two teenage boys growing up in late 1960s Japan.
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33	* Creator/WaltDisney was enamored with the [[TheGayNineties 1890s]] (he was born two years after they ended, in 1901) and set many of his cartoons in that period, such as WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse's ''WesternAnimation/TheNiftyNineties'' and WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's ''Crazy Over Daisy''. Even Donald's iconic outfit is a Gay Nineties throwback!
34	** Although ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' doesn't quite meet the deadline (it was released in 1955, 65 years after the decade it was meant to invoke), it fits this trope in all other ways.
35	** 1946's ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'' features the animated short "Johnnie Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet", which features horse-drawn carts that wouldn't be in style since the 1890s.
36	* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' is set in the '50s from the perspective of the late '90s, and is rich with nostalgia for the decade's pop culture and kitschy aesthetics, albeit taken hand-in-hand with satire of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar paranoia of the time.
37	* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' is set in 2002, exactly twenty years before it came out, and is imbued with nostalgia for the pop culture touchstones of [=Y2K=]-era girlhood, such as Toys/{{Tamagotchi}}s, Nokia cell phones covered in stickers, G-Shock watches, YA ParanormalRomance novels, the Cha Cha Slide, and most notably the {{fake\|Band}} BoyBand 4*Town that figures heavily into the plot.
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41	* Between 1944 and 1948, Creator/JudyGarland starred in a trio of nostalgia musicals for MGM:
42	** ''The Harvey Girls'' is a 1946 musical about the Harvey House restaurants that followed the railroads west and the women who worked as servers there, set in TheGayNineties.
43	** ''In The Good Old Summertime'' is a 1949 musical remake of ''Film/TheShopAroundTheCorner'', also set in TheGayNineties. It features a cameo appearance by 3-year-old Liza Minelli in the last shot. Ms. Minelli, of course, is the daughter of Judy and the director of the first movie in this informal trifecta.
44	** ''Film/MeetMeInStLouis'', made by Vincente Minelli and Creator/JudyGarland in 1944, looks back with affection on the St. Louis of 1904. While most of the filmmakers were looking back to their parents' era, the film was based on the short stories and novel of Sally Benson, who wrote from her own childhood experiences.
45	* ''Film/MaryPoppins'' comes from Walt Disney's admiration for the Edwardian Era. The books are set in the 1930s but the film moves the setting to the early 1900s. There seems to be no reason for the change other than the nostalgia and Walt's particular fondness for the era.
46	* ''Film/{{The Roaring Twenties\|1939}}'' is a 1939 film that looks back on TheRoaringTwenties, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin -- though it begins in 1918, at the very end of The Great War.
47	* The 1980s ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies were set in the 1930s and were rooted in Creator/GeorgeLucas and Creator/StevenSpielberg's nostalgia for the classic film serials they grew up with, helping to pioneer the TwoFistedTales subgenre of ActionAdventure stories. The [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull fourth movie]], released in 2008, updates things to a '50s [[UsefulNotes/TheColdWar Cold War]] setting and homages to that decade's sci-fi movies. The [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny fifth movie]] was set in 1969 and released in 2023, just past the fifty-year mark, but is otherwise just as nostalgic for the late '60s era of UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}} and UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace.
48	* ''Film/AChristmasStory'' was made in 1983 and set in a romanticized late '30s/early '40s suburban small town in Indiana, based heavily on writer Creator/JeanShepherd's recollections of his youth around that time.
49	* The 1971 film ''Film/SummerOf42'' was screenwriter Herman Rauscher's almost-autobiographical look back at his own summer vacation of 29 years previous.
50	* 1978's ''Film/{{Grease}}'' was this to the 1950s.
51	* ''Film/SchoolTies'' is set in the '50s, most obviously evidenced by the tame rock 'n' roll that plays in the film, which is treated as rowdy and wild.
52	* ''Film/CryBaby'' is Creator/JohnWaters second foray into nostalgia (see below), being a look back from 1990 to the Baltimore of 1954.
53	* ''Liberty Heights'', released in 1999 and set in 1954, is the fourth and final of the "Baltimore Films" by Barry Levinson (see below); all, like fellow Baltimore native Creator/JohnWaters, were based either on his own memories or those of his family & friends of the time.
54	* ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', about a teenage boy from 1985 traveling back in time to a highly romanticized 1955. (The sequels are not examples; the [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII second film]] has him jumping TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, while the [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII third]] has him going back to TheWildWest.)
55	* {{Deconstructed\|Trope}} in ''Film/{{Pleasantville}}'', where the protagonists' [[TrappedInTVLand trip]] into a retro '50s DomCom universe initially plays this trope to the hilt. David specifically watches the titular sitcom because it's an UnintentionalPeriodPiece to the decade in which it was created and fulfills this role for him, allowing him to travel back in time to a mythologized "good old days". The show's setting is a comically exaggerated version of conservative '50s Americana, and even when his and Jennifer's modern values first start influencing Pleasantville's residents, it initially serves to bring RockAndRoll and [[GreaserDelinquents slick-haired greasers with hot rods]] to the town, turning it into the "cool" '50s of ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'' and ''Film/{{Grease}}''. Then it starts exploring the dark side of '50s nostalgia, as the other townsfolk start reacting to these changes in a manner that explicitly recalls segregationists during the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement.
56	* ''The Lords of Flatbush'', a 1974 film starring Creator/SylvesterStallone and future [[Series/HappyDays Fonzie]] Creator/HenryWinkler, looks at 1958 Brooklyn working-class kids.
57	* ''Film/StandByMe'' is set in 1959 and attempts to mark the transition from TheFifties to TheSixties--from Innocence to Experience--reflecting the coming of age of four Oregon youths (and the youths of director Rob Reiner and author Creator/StephenKing).
58	* ''Film/{{Diner}}'', released in 1982 and set in 1959, is the first of the "Baltimore Films" by Barry Levinson.
59	* ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse2007'', being set in the '60s and made in 2007, just barely qualifies as this.
60	* ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'' was made by Creator/GeorgeLucas in the '70s to look back on his adolescence. While it's technically set in 1962, this Oscar-nominated box-office success helped spark the explosion of nostalgia for TheFifties, and is practically the TropeCodifier for [[NothingButHits the all-star soundtrack]] that would accompany so many later nostalgia films.
61	* ''Film/Hairspray1988'', Creator/JohnWaters' first PG film, is a surprisingly affectionate 1988 look back at Baltimore of 1962.
62	* ''Film/AnimalHouse'' was so influential on college students of the late 1970s and early 1980s that it is often overlooked for being nostalgic, but the 1978 film is clearly and specifically set in 1962, right down to the JFK homecoming float.
63	* The famous 1987 film ''Film/DirtyDancing'' is set in 1963.
64	* The much less famous 1979 film ''Film/TheWanderers'' is also set in 1963.
65	* ''Film/TinMen'', released in 1987 and set in 1963, is the second of the "Baltimore Films" by Barry Levinson.
66	* ''Film/{{Avalon\|1990}}'', released in 1990 and set over a period of decades from 1914 to the early 1960s -- thus both nostalgia and a PeriodPiece -- is the third of the "Baltimore Films" by Barry Levinson.
67	* ''More American Graffiti'', the 1979 sequel which Lucas produced but did not direct, and which was neither Oscar-nominated nor a box-office success, is set in four consecutive New Years Eves from 1964 to 1967.
68	* ''Film/TheHollywoodKnights,'' a 1980 film featuring early appearances by Creator/FranDrescher, Creator/TonyDanza and Creator/MichellePfeiffer, examines Halloween night, 1965, and the last night of a drive-in that is the favored hangout of the car club of the title.
69	* ''Dogfight'', a little-seen but critically-lauded film starring Creator/RiverPhoenix and Creator/LiliTaylor, was made in 1991 and set in 1965 and '66.
70	* ''Baby It's You'', Creator/JohnSayles ventures into nostalgia (he has also made more than one PeriodPiece); was made in 1983 and set in late 1966 and early 1967.
71	* ''Literature/TheOutsiders'' book was contemporary when it was written however the film adaptation was released in the 1980s. It's a harsh look at being a greaser in the '60s.
72	* Although it doesn't ''technically'' count (being based on a book written in 1971), the film version of ''Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'' was made in 1998, at the height of '70s nostalgia.
73	* ''Film/AlmostFamous'' is Creator/CameronCrowe looking back at his own beginnings as a boy wonder rock journalist in 1973.
74	* ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'' is a 2004 film, set in the '70s mostly to get away with sexist jokes that wouldn't be politically correct today.
75	* ''Film/Anchorman2TheLegendContinues'' is set in the late '70s/early '80s, following suit.
76	* The ComingOfAgeStory ''Film/MyGirl'' is set in the mid 1970s and lets you know it - mood rings, Volkswagen vans, SeventiesHair, period-appropriate music, etc.
77	* ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' is a 1993 film about high schoolers in '76, complete with Bicentennial references.
78	* ''Film/DetroitRockCity'' is a 1999 film about high schoolers in '78, complete with the disco/rock conflict of the time.
79	* ''54'' is a 1998 film based on the latter days of the infamous epicenter of disco, Studio 54.
80	* ''Film/TheLastDaysOfDisco'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, made in 1998 and set in a FictionalCounterpart of Studio 54.
81	* ''Film/EverybodyWantsSome'' is a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Dazed And Confused'', looking nostalgically at a college in the summer of 1980.
82	* ''Film/BoogieNights'' explores the late '70s - early '80s porn scene from the perspective of 1997.
83	* ''Film/{{Adventureland}}'' is a downplayed version of this trope, set in the '80s and not really pushing the setting with the outfits except for certain "trendier" characters.
84	* Creator/AdamSandler's ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'' (1998), which uses the '80s setting for some jokes and nothing else.
85	* While it is also a GenreThrowback, the movie ''Film/{{Super 8}}'' is set in 1979, and is still very much a love letter to the period of time when the 70's transitioned into the 80's.
86	* ''Film/SummerOf84'', made in 2018 and set in 1984, is an homage to the kids' adventure films of the decade like ''Film/TheGoonies'' and ''Film/TheMonsterSquad''.
87	* ''Film/WonderWoman1984''. It's right there in the title: ComicBook/WonderWoman in TheEighties.
88	* The 2006 British film, ''Film/StarterForTen'', is set in '85-'86, a fact that it makes glorious use of for the soundtrack.
89	* ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'', in which four guys from 2010 travel back in time to a highly nostalgic 1986, was influenced heavily by the aforementioned ''Back to the Future''.
90	* Ditto for ''Film/TotallyKiller'', in which a teenage girl from 2023 travels back in time to 1987, played for both DeliberateValuesDissonance and affection for the era's fashion, music, and {{slasher movie}}s.
91	* ''Film/DonnieDarko'' was made in 2001 and set in 1988. It even seems to have some added film grain, making it [[{{Retraux}} look like it was made in '88]].
92	* ''Film/EightMile'', released in 2002 and set in 1995, less than a decade after its release.
93	* The 2013 romantic comedy ''Film/TheToDoList'' is set in 1993, presumably to justify the heroine (an 18 year old, just graduated from high school) being ''completely'' sheltered about sex. The plot would not have been plausible in a post-internet era setting.
94	* The MCU's ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'' is set in 1996, allowing for a '90s-based soundtrack and references to Blockbuster and the analog age, but ultimately could have taken place in any time period, so long as it predated ''Film/TheAvengers2012''.
95	* ''Film/Mid90s'' is set in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Palms in 1996. It even uses 16mm film to make it look like an actual '90s film.
96	* The 2014 Creator/LiamNeeson film ''Film/AWalkAmongTheTombstones'' is explicitly set in 1999, which doesn't change the plot too much, besides allowing the main character to be unfamiliar with computers and the "World Wide Web" (which [[ItWillNeverCatchOn he insists is a fad]]) and a lot of [[MillenniumBug Y2K jokes]].
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101	* ''Literature/TheLovelyBones'', as well as its film adaptation, begin in 1973 and span a couple years.
102	* Creator/StephenKing's ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series has actually ''turned into'' this, being largely set in the '70s and publishing from 1982 to 2012.
103	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Even though the books were released in 1998 through 2007, it was set in 1991 through 1998.
104	* ''Literature/EleanorAndPark'': Released in 2013, set in 1986-1987. Various musical and cultural references are mentioned throughout the book.
105	* ''Literature/{{Unimaa}}'': Released online in 2021, all but the first chapter is set in 1999 (the first chapter takes place in 1899). Signs of the times include the presence of a VCR and dial-up Internet, a brief discussion of progress in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', and a mention of the MillenniumBug.
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110	* The TropeCodifier is probably ''Series/HappyDays'' (1974-84), which took place in the mid 1950s-mid 60s. While a show set in the same time period would be considered a PeriodPiece nowadays, at the time when it was made it was very nostalgic.
111	** Creator/GarryMarshall followed it up with ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'' (1976-83) set in 1958-67 and several other, less well received nostalgia-com spinoffs including ''Joanie Loves Chachi'' (1982-83) set around the Beatlemania era.
112	* ''Series/HiDeHi'' (1980-88) is a British sitcom set in the Maplins holiday camp from 1959-60.
113	** From the same writers, ''Series/DadsArmy'' (1968-77) is set during World War II.
114	* ''Series/TheWonderYears'' (1988-93) took place exactly 20 years earlier: 1968-73.
115	* The trope gets its name from ''Series/That70sShow'' (1998-06), which has its eight seasons crammed into a four year period: 1976-79.
116	** By extension, it also gets its name from the lesser-known spin-off, ''Series/That80sShow'' (2002) with its [[ShortRunners single season]] set in 1984.
117	** ''Series/That90sShow'' is a SequelSeries to ''70s'' set twenty years later.
118	* ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' (1999-2000) is set in 1980-81 (but really having more '70s nostalgia than the '80s).
119	* ''Hippies'' (1999) is a British sitcom set thirty years earlier in 1969.
120	* ''Series/OliverBeene'' (2003-04) was set in the 1960s, and used its time period to great effect, referencing {{Zeerust}} predictions for the present day of when it was broadcast that, of course, [[IWantMyJetPack time would prove completely wrong]].
121	* ''Series/MadMen'' (2007-15) plays this trope to a T with a 1960-1970 setting, although it barely meets the "5 decades ago" requirement.
122	* ''Series/PanAm'' (2011-12) was this to the 1963-64 before its cancellation.
123	* ''Series/TheGoldbergs'' (2013-present) has every episode set in "1980-something" and is largely biographical.
124	** Likewise, it's 2019 spinoff, ''Series/{{Schooled}}'' has every episode in the "1990-something".
125	* The three-episode Britsh drama ''From There to Here'' (2014) starts with the 1996 Manchester bombing, continues into the 1997 election of Prime Minister UsefulNotes/TonyBlair and ends with the Millennium celebrations of 2000.
126	* ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'' (2015-20) takes place in 1995-2000 and shows '90s pop culture references.
127	* The series ''The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade'' (2016-17) is an odd mishmash of this and crime documentary show. It's about murders that occured in the 1980s but also features a nostalgia for the era.
128	* ''Series/StrangerThings'' (2016-present) is one of the archetypal examples of this trope in modern media. The first season was set in 1983, with follow-up seasons set in the following years. The third season went all-out on the '80s aesthetic, with the production renovating part of a dying [[TheMall shopping mall]] in suburban UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} to look like a place that an '80s ValleyGirl might shop at, complete with period-appropriate stores and films like ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'' and ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' playing in the mall's theater.
129	* ''Series/EverythingSucks'' (2018) was set squarely in 1996 of [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest the Pacific Northwest]], smack-dab in the middle of the decade of {{grunge}}.
130	* ''[[Series/TheKidsAreAlright2018 The Kids Are Alright]]'' (2018-19) was set in 1972-73. Being set 46 years in the past almost makes it a period piece.
131	* British comedy ''Series/DerryGirls'' (2018-present) is set roughly in 1995 near the end of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles in Derry, Northern Ireland. It references ''Film/PulpFiction'', ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'' is in theatres[[note]]British spelling[[/note]], and President UsefulNotes/BillClinton visits Derry. However, there are creative liberties with the timeline: Music/TakeThatBand performed in Derry in 1993 and the IRA ceasefire happened in 1994.
132	* ''Series/MixedIsh'', the 2019 prequel spinoff of ''Series/BlackIsh'', is so far set in 1985-86.
133	* ''[[Series/Pen15 PEN15]]'' (2019-present) does this for the TurnOfTheMillennium, taking place in the year 2000. While the 21st century ''technically'' starts in the year 2001 (and culturally, many people would argue that it ''really'' started on [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror September 11, 2001]]), this is the first series to start with 2000s nostalgia.
134	* ''Series/YoungSheldon'' is a prequel to ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', set during the late 80's and early 90's. Sheldon and his siblings express interest in various pieces of pop culture of the era.
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139	* If any one performer could be said to have invented a "nostalgia genre" of rock, that man would have to be Music/BobSeger. "Night Moves", "Mainstreet", "Rock and Roll Never Forgets", "Old Time Rock and Roll", "Against the Wind", "Like a Rock"... practically all of his greatest hits evoke a desperately sharp, bittersweet longing for the past.
140	* Music/BillyJoel's 1983 album ''An Innocent Man'' is made up almost entirely of 1950s-style songs. The video for "Uptown Girl" keeps the theme as well.
141	* Deee-Lite's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmZ08V4GFQg music video]] for "Groove is in the Heart" is a classic '90s song, and features the singer and background dancers dressed up in '60s outfits alongside plentiful psychedelic flower-power imagery.
142	* Music/CharliXCX and Music/TroyeSivan's "1999", released in 2019, is all about them being nostalgic for their childhoods in the late '90s and wishing they could go back to 1999, with both the lyrics and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-v1b9waHWY the video]] referencing famous musicians, shows, movies, and other pop culture touchstones of the [=Y2K=] era.
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148	* Three of Broadway's biggest hits of the mid-20th century were ''Life With Father'', ''Film/IRememberMama'', and ''Theatre/TheMusicMan''; all were based on the childhood recollections of Clarance Day Jr., Kathryn Forbes, and Meredith Wilson, respectively, and all were eventually made into motion pictures as well (though by the time Wilson's piece reached the stage it was almost a PeriodPiece).
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154	* Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights:
155	** The Orlando event has the Vamp series of scarezones, each of them set in a nostalgic setting that's been infested by vampires, with classic hits from that time period serving as the soundtrack playing over the speakers in the area. ''Vamp '55'' in 2016 was based on a homecoming parade in TheFifties and had vampire [[PomPomGirl Pom-Pom Girls]] and GreaserDelinquents terrorizing the homecoming court. ''Vamp '85: New Year's Eve'' in 2018 was set in Times Square on [[TheEighties December 31, 1984]] and had {{yuppie}}s getting terrorized by vampire [[TheQuincyPunk punks]], with various '80s celebrities having [[CelebrityCasualty also been turned]]. Finally, ''Vamp '69: Summer of Blood'' in 2023 is based on a [[WritingAroundTrademarks fictionalized version]] of UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}} getting attacked by vampires summoned by that year's [[ArcVillain Icon]] Dr. Oddfellow.
156	** The Orlando event in 2015 had the haunted house ''RUN: Blood, Sweat and Fears'', an homage to ''Film/TheRunningMan'' and ''Series/AmericanGladiators'' with a {{Zeerust}} '80s retro-apocalypse theme.
157	** The event has also done houses based on ''Series/StrangerThings'', recreating that show's own nostalgic '80s setting.
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163	* The ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'' games from the 2000s were set in parodies of the '50s, '60s, and '70s, all from the point of view of an alien invader who had come to Earth to... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well]], [[KillAllHumans read the title]].
164	* The entire point of ''VideoGame/GoneHome'' is exploring the house of a family in '90s UsefulNotes/{{Portland}}, with a RiotGrrrl soundtrack and numerous references to the decade's pop culture artifacts from ''Series/TheXFiles'' to 'zines to mixtapes.
165	* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series, whenever it does a setting in the past, often rests heavily on this.
166	** [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoClassic The first game's London packs]] are a pastiche of 1960s London.
167	** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'' and its prequel ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories Vice City Stories]]'' are the best examples of this, set in pastiches of '80s UsefulNotes/{{Miami}} designed to allow people to live a gangster lifestyle straight out of ''Film/Scarface1983'' or ''Series/MiamiVice'', with a period soundtrack of NothingButHits and plenty of broad satire of the culture and politics of the time. While ''Vice City'' technically breaks the 20-year rule for this trope, having been set in 1986 and released in 2002, it is otherwise awash in nostalgia to the point that it has been [[https://medium.com/super-jump/gta-vice-city-created-a-new-wave-of-80s-nostalgia-7073de093a12 described in hindsight]] as the game where most of the imagery associated with nostalgic depictions of TheEighties really coalesced. ''Vice City Stories'', meanwhile, neatly sails through the cutoff, being set in 1984 and released 22 years later in 2006.
168	** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]'' does something similar, except for UsefulNotes/{{California}} in 1992 at the height of the GangstaRap era, breaking the 20-year rule for this trope (it was released in 2004, just twelve years after it takes place) but definitely indulging in its spirit much like ''Vice City'' did.
169	** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories Liberty City Stories]]'' doesn't qualify, though, as it is set in 1998 but otherwise uninterested in the time period beyond exploring the backstories of characters from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' (which was released and set in 2001) and making a few jokes about ''Film/TheMatrix'' and {{boy band}}s on [[Radio/GTARadio the radio]].
170	* ''VideoGame/Interstate76'' and its console spinoff ''VideoGame/Vigilante8'' were late '90s homages to the {{Exploitation Film}}s of TheSeventies, set in an AlternateHistory where the oil crisis never ended. The former's sequel ''Interstate '82'' was likewise this to the early '80s, complete with a soundtrack by Music/{{Devo}}.
171	* While ''VideoGame/MafiaTheCityOfLostHeaven'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/MafiaII'' were straight period pieces (the first was set during TheGreatDepression, the latter during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and TheFifties), ''VideoGame/MafiaIII'' is set in 1968, just barely getting in under the 50-year rule (it was made in 2016) but otherwise indulging in it for all it's worth. The soundtrack is composed of NothingButHits, the collectible items include issues of ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' (complete with [[IReadItForTheArticles the articles]]) and ''Hot Rod Magazine'', and the social strife of the time period, particularly the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement and UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, figures heavily into the plot.
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176	* ''WesternAnimation/FIsForFamily'' takes place in the 1970s.
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