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The ’70s disco aesthetic gets some videogame love
Laser Disco Defenders is defined by ‘70s Star Wars knock-offs—the kookier, the better. We’re talking films like Star Crash (1979) and Buck Rogers (1979); movies that might as well have had their robot characters made out of tinfoil. Only, for the purposes of describing the game, imagine those movies set to a fly disco soundtrack, daddio. Creator Alexander Birke had always been interested in creating a videogame with a b-movie feel, and disco felt like a natural pairing. After all, Star Wars’s success in the ‘70s catapulted science fiction to the forefront, and even disco got in on it. Hence we have…