Let’s Party Like It’s ’88!

A girl dressed like Chucky out of Child’s Play. She somehow looks way more terrifying than the source material.
Some dude called Tim playing on Stan’s Amiga 500 before setting off to the arcade.
An educated guess is that this is Roger Rabbit who was framed in 1988.
A nerd who’s drunk one too many Dr Peppers. Biro scribbled on the back reads ‘Gerald’s want his mom’.
A classic red eye portrait of some overly excited geek called Carlos.
We think this is Barbara out of Beetlejuice.
This is the fella who we can blame for the defiant neckbeard trend which has battled to be heard right up until now.
Rambo if he was 2 years’ old. Otherwise known as Rambino.
Morgan is shit-faced on Sprite and pizza.
Polly and Poppy never left each other’s side all night and didn’t touch any of the machines. They went home early.
This is most likely Elvira; another cult classic from ’88.
Yikes!
This fella is nicknamed Yo-Yo because he’s a grand master of the Yo-Yo.
Beetlejuice…
Beetlejuice…
Beetlejuice…

Every so often somebody gets in touch with us claiming they have information related to the Cyberia project only to then disappear into a black hole. A few days ago a fella called Stan bucked the trend and emailed us saying he’d been surfing around our site the other day. Later that evening he was routing through some old documents when he came across the above collection of photos and believed it was divine intervention rather than just a very boring series of events.

Stan explained:

Damn, your project is a trip down memory lane! I thought you’d be interested in these snaps I took on New Year’s Eve 1988 at a local arcade in Santa Clara. This was around the time big Tech companies were starting to spray their shit from a Hosepipe all across this beautiful County.

It was a Fancy dress party and everyone was suppose to come drressed as a character from their favourite movie of that year (some you will no doubt recognize!).

Many of those Kids got hoovered up by Silicon Vipers over the next decade in return for their soul. Not me though buddy. I’m doing the Lord’s work as head of cheese at Del Taco. Let me know if you’re ever around this way and I’ll hook up a table. All on me.

We thanked Stan and decided to include these photographs in the project as they give us a glimpse of life in the vicinity of Give Me Head HQ during that crazy year of 1988.

Plus: who doesn’t love old photos of an arcade party? These are like fossils carrying vital information about our civilisation and should be preserved accordingly. After the next pending human catastrophe (which, let’s face it, could be any minute now), these photos will be discovered by AI holograms. These holograms will be the only sign of life on Earth despite technically being nothing. They’ll hang these photos in digital museums, just like we have with cavemen paintings. They will then laugh at us for all eternity wondering why the fuck we created technology that has made our species look extremely stupid in recent years.

Anyway. It’s close to New Year here. Huge thanks to everyone who is supporting this project. We have a lot in store for you in 2026 and we can’t wait to share it with you!

Hope you all have a hoot!

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