Black Mirror: Bandersnatch takes you to PC gaming’s mid-1980s heyday

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch takes you to PC gaming’s mid-1980s heyday

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https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/27/18157523/black-mirror-trailer-bandersnatch-netflix-release-video-episode

Black Mirror’s first full-length movie is Bandersnatch, a period piece set in the middle-1980s wheelhouse of Europop music, new-wave hair, and PC video gaming. For any over-the-hill Gen Xer looking for a trip down the rabbit hole, this should be a real treat.

Bandersnatch’s premise: A programmer is tasked with adapting a brick-thick fantasy paperback into a computer game. This causes him to question reality, existence or his own sanity, or some combination of the three. It’s worth noting that Charlie Brooker, the show’s creator, was a contributing writer to PC Zone magazine in the 1990s. So this choice of topic and time period (Brooker is 47) seems at least somewhat personal.