Virtual-reality games such as Vaporwave Road VR offer immersive neon worlds. And games such as Sunset Mall, Data Wing and Islands: Non-Places channel the sub-genre’s retro-futuristic allure.
Precedented by beach huts of the Mornington Peninsula and other local homes, Higgins favors the use of color on the ‘Vaporwave’ weatherboard facade, a nod to '80s 8-bit sunset imagery and a ...