Website design & development is usually a forward-thinking craft, but this one had me rewinding t...Website design & development is usually a forward-thinking craft, but this one had me rewinding t...
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Ashley Best
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• Nov 8
Website design & development is usually a forward-thinking craft, but this one had me rewinding three decades!
For SEGA and Supercell, I took a trip down memory lane, channelling my inner 90s child to create the online companion to a one-off retro-style magazine made by the original Mean Machines team, to promote Supercell’s Squad Busters smartphone game and its Sonic the hedgehog crossover.
The brief was simple: Capture the spirit of 90s gaming mags — loud, cluttered layouts, bold typography, clashing colours — with one guiding word: nostalgia.
The result? A digital homage that feels like flicking through a 1993 issue, reimagined for today's screens.
Complete with a few 90s Easter eggs: ☎️ Dial-up modem sound 💾 Random “Blue Screen of Death” ✨ Cursor trail 🎵 Winamp-style music player 📝 Classic guestbook 🔢 Page-view counter
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Murad Hussain
• Nov 10
@Ashley Best Wow back to 90s pure nostalgic
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Ashley Best
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• Nov 10
Yeeee @Murad Hussain! Definitely unlocked some memories with this one!
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Karina
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• Nov 9
@Ashley Best omg that Winamp-style music player is so nostalgic 😂
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Ashley Best
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• Nov 9
Isn't it! @Karina ✨ This project made me retreive so many archived memories from this era!
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Andres Sepulveda Morales
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• Nov 10
@Ashley Best This is so amazing!! Loving every second of it.
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UXNoraiz Shahid
• Nov 10
@Ashley Best you nailed the nostalgic chaos without losing usability.
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Ashley Best
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• Nov 10
Thanks @UXNoraiz Shahid! I appreciate the kind words!
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