To people younger than mid-30s: I really cannot emphasize enough that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City played a huge shaping effect on later ‘80s retro and those weird Scottish Ameriboos at Rockstar left the legacy that they have now set some of the actual America’s actual sense of cultural history

If you were not around at the time it is easy to miss how much of our sense of “canonical” 80s music and look dates to the 2002 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, prior to which the era was seen as an aesthetic embarrassment and elided