The Steve Kirk Appreciation topic

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Doesn't TWP feel more '90es than '80es to you?

The main reason to me is the theme and ambiance. TWP is light years far away from the striking colors of the 80es burst. It is dark, and settled in a town pervaded by slump and depression. Its cultural references (aside from adventure games) are Twin Peaks and X-Files, which both came out in the nineties and helped to set a (o were inscribed in the) mood for that time span. The music, as many of you observed, isn’t so eightish, it has a more mature, less electronic late nineties (or even earl…