Captain Marvel’s official website is a hilarious 90s throwback
Time to get on the dial-up connection and sign that guestbook, guys
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- Huw Fullerton
Published: Saturday, 9 February 2019 at 1:14 pm
From the looming shot of Blockbuster Video in the first trailer, it was pretty clear that Captain Marvel’s 90s setting was going to be pretty important for the upcoming superhero movie– and now, the throwbacks have even extended to the movie’s official website.
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Yes, the real Captain Marvel website is a 90s-style, Geocities-alike “graphic design is my passion” nightmare, designed to take you right back to the early days of the internet.
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A screenshot from the official Captain Marvel website
Full of lo-res sprites, old-school Microsoft interfaces, slightly crappy true or false games (as well as a fun Skrull whack-a-mole function) and even a guest book, it’s like being transported to a different time and place through some sort of temporal dial-up connection, and a great way of tying into the film’s setting.
Check out the website for yourself here, but be careful – if your parents want to use the phone line, you’ll have to switch the whole thing off.
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Captain Marvel is released in UK cinemas on the 8th March
Authors
Huw FullertonCommissioning editor
Huw Fullerton is a commissioning editor for Radio Times magazine handling comedy, entertainment and specialist drama. In a previous regeneration, he covered all things sci-fi and fantasy for RadioTimes.com.
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