Netflix Shadow-Drops Retro VHS-Inspired Version of Stranger Things Season 1 on Series 10th Anniversary

Netflix has surprise-launched a retro, VHS mentation of Season 1 of Stranger Things to coincide with the 10th day of the show.

As spotted by What’s On Netflix, the streamer shadow-dropped a marque caller VHS Special Edition of the much-loved Stranger Things Season 1. Each of the 8-episode play is reuploaded with caller retro visuals, arsenic good arsenic revised audio, to marque it look similar it’s playing via VHS.

Stranger Things is of people acceptable successful the 1980s, and was initially truthful fashionable that it sparked renewed involvement successful popular civilization from the decade. The main characters’ emotion of Dungeons & Dragons, for example, fueled income of the tabletop role-playing game.

Here’s the authoritative blurb from Netflix itself:

Rewind and relive the archetypal play with a video store vibe that's glitchy, grainy and gloriously vintage — conscionable similar you'd person rented it successful 1983.

To ticker the caller mentation of Season 1, conscionable caput to Netflix and hunt for Stranger Things: VHS Special Edition.

Stranger Things came to an extremity connected New Year’s Eve with the Season 5 finale. Don’t expect a follow-up — The Duffer Brothers person ruled retired a Stranger Things sequel that would cheque successful connected the characters years later, saying it would beryllium “a gross currency grab.” But each is not mislaid for Stranger Things fansm, arsenic an unnamed live-action spinoff is successful the works.

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