Official Stranger Things Xbox Looks Just Like a Cassette Player
To celebrate the release of the newest season of Stranger Things, Microsoft has unveiled an official Stranger Things Xbox. The first volume of Stranger Things' fourth season premiered this past Friday on Netflix, and now Microsoft is paying respect to the streaming giant. The Xbox is made to look just like a cassette player, tying in with the series' 1980s nostalgia.
Stranger Things is heavily inspired by and greatly relies on '80s pop culture. In season two, for instance, the Hawkins kids hang out at the local arcade playing games like Dragon's Lair and Dig Dug. It is here that they eventually meet Max — the player with the highest score in Dig Dug who eventually becomes part of their group. The science fiction-horror series constantly references the popular tabletop RPG Dungeons and Dragons via its otherworldly villains. In fact, the current season's villain is named after Vecna, a Dungeons and Dragons god.
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Microsoft has drawn on the Stranger Things cultural phenomenon by creating an exclusive Xbox Series S designed to look like an '80s cassette player from the Upside Down. Called the Upside Down Xbox Series S, this special console has the cassette player buttons beneath the fan grill and the Stranger Things logo on its side. Both the console and its controller look weathered, having been entrapped in the vines, tendrils, and ooze of the malicious flora and fauna commonly found in the Upside Down. Completing the look is a special hazmat container that will hold the Upside Down Xbox Series S.
This is not the first time Microsoft has made an exclusive console that ties in with a popular franchise. Just last month, Microsoft announced furry Sonic
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