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Trailer Trash
Depending on the click journey you have embarked on to get here, you may have already come across Damien. In a nutshell we visited him a couple of months ago when we were last in the U.S of Ace. He helped us to time travel back to the ’80s by restoring some old film reels.…
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The Punks That Got Away
When rummaging around some files, we stumbled across a series of mugshots. Each came with a sheet of lined paper covered in time-faded unflattering scribbles. It was immediately obvious that these were drafts of playable characters; ones which were scrapped for being ridiculous or because there were issues with the actor. In this chapter we’re…
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The Cyberia Lowdown
Welcome all Cyber Heads! This is the official launch of a first-of-its-kind lost media project created by two brothers drunk on ’80s nostalgia. Here’s the lowdown: Way back in 1988, an ambitious company called Give Me Head Productions began working out of a Silicon Valley office space over on the B-movie side of town. Headed…
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The Mystery of Mr Mystery
If you’ve been clicking around these pages for any length of time, you will regularly see us pointing out the work of one particularly talented dude who we are struggling to identify. As such we refer to him (it’s probably a him given how few women worked at Give Me Head) as Mr Mystery. The…
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Las Madonnas: The Scrapped Sisterhood of Mercy
You may have already noticed that barely any women worked for Give Me Head Productions. If the company name didn’t put them off then we’re presuming that Cassidy probably did. All jokes aside, the ’80s didn’t really care much for women; it just seemed to tolerate them to a point. That’s one reason why there’s…
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The Shadowy Cyberia Council
In the grand scheme of things, we’re not sure where to place the Cyberia Council. Although it saw a fair bit of visual development in the early days (which explains why it’s all nice and shiny), it didn’t have much of a narrative purpose, not helped by the fact that there are no playable characters…
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Giddy Ferret Paw the Musical Mental Case [With Live Footage]
Giddy Ferret Paw isn’t the real birth name of this funky eccentric; Sidney Swarbrick is. But we’ll honour using it anyway. As we can all see from these photographs, Giddy is an interesting character who, by the grace of fifty pagan gods, somehow ended up working for Give Me Head Productions. He was the only employee…
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Cyberia Location #4 Dmitry’s Luxury Arcade of the Future
Another Forgotten Genius When rummaging around the files, we were thrilled to find one which had a number of fantastic images but little in the way of detail. The illustration style also doesn’t look like any other style we have come across thus far. It is reminiscent of the original Tron movie which all self-respecting…
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The “Cyberia’s Most Wanted” Files [With Footage]
We found a folder entitled “Mugshots” which contained the above images. There are a few more which we are trying to restore. We also found a reference to the origin of these images before we found the images themselves. An early memo written by Charlie Ryba reads thus: Me and Cassidy took photographs and videos…
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A Gallery of Promotional Material for Cyberia [With Animations]
As we have seen, the Give Me Head team was a mixed bag of gourmet Belgian chocolates and your nan’s over-boiled brussel sprouts. However, to their credit, one area they seemed to excel in was illustration and design. Below is some of the promotional material we have found at varying stages of completion. We still…
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