--- title: Game of Thrones 80s VHS Trailer description: So rad! canonical: https://time.com/2933948/game-of-thrones-trailer-80s-vhs/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-27T16:55:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:13.170Z og:title: Game of Thrones 80s VHS Trailer og:description: So rad! og:url: https://time.com/2933948/game-of-thrones-trailer-80s-vhs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Game of Thrones 80s VHS Trailer twitter:description: So rad! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # _Game of Thrones_ Trailer: The '80s Remix  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jun 27, 2014 4:55 PM UTC  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jun 27, 2014 4:55 PM UTC Some of you may not remember this, but back before HBO Go, before the DVD, even before the LaserDisc (yeah I know you don’t even know what that is, which, exactly) there was a thing called the VHS with an aesthetic all its own. Contemporary with the VHS, there was also a thing called the late 1980s/early 1990s when TV show theme songs all sounded kind of the same and all were totally mondo, dude. The scratchy visuals and weird distortions of the VHS viewing experience were almost lost to history. Fortunately, we have the Internet, where saintly people do things like mashup a recreation of what a _Game of Thrones_ trailer would look like in the VHS era with a righteously retro GoT theme song. So slap on those bracelets, pour yourself a bowl of Batman [cereal](http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/%5F%5Fcb20101204020423/batman/images/d/d5/Cereal.jpg) and get ready for a treat. Holy cow, I’m old. Game of Thrones 80s VHS Trailer ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2933948/game-of-thrones-trailer-80s-vhs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2933948/game-of-thrones-trailer-80s-vhs/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones Trailer: The '80s Remix","datePublished":"2014-06-27T16:55:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:13.170Z","description":"So rad!","url":"https://time.com/2933948/game-of-thrones-trailer-80s-vhs/","keywords":["Newsfeed","HBO","game of thrones","viral","retro","Trailer","Trailers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2933948/game-of-thrones-trailer-80s-vhs/","name":"Game of Thrones Trailer: The '80s Remix"}}]}] ```