4.29.10 - 2:00PM
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Cole Stryker

The Mind's Eye VHS Series Will Trip You Out With Hideous 90s Graphics

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mind's eye man In 1990, the Mind's Eye series brought cutting edge CGI graphics, accompanied by cheesy new-age music, into thousands of homes. Many were demo reels from big budget animation studios doing work for films like The Lawnmower Man.

Add music from New Age luminaries like Thomas Dolby and Jan Hammer (of Miami Vice theme fame) and you've got yourself a VHS tape. These things flew off the shelves. Even Roger Ebert liked them.

Imagine living in a world where your hemp skirt-wearing mom and computer programming dad would pay $19.99 for a copy of screensaver-level tech demos so they could stay home and burn one while you slept. It wasn't that long ago!

Click through to see our five favorites. And if you were a kid in the early 90s, get ready for a tsunami of nostalgia.

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4.29.10

By K143th

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I completely recall these. You not walk into an electronic mucis club or rave event in the early 90s with out this being projected somewhere. A large edited portion of 'The temple' was the inspiration for The Prodigy - One Love (Original Mix) video. Many of the artist and producers of TME went on to larger and contemporary CGI outfits like Pixar and Dreamworks. Great throw back!