I don’t Ready Player One’s obsession with the 80’s, that's like our society obsessing over the 50’s and I don't see the appeal in that. The only thing I know about the 50’s was that people went surfing sometimes, but that just doesn’t seem relevant I get that in the story Halladay is extremely famous and has an obsession with the 80’s, but the book also says that he grew up in the 80’s. He remembered all the different video games, movies, TV shows, and dungeons and dragons games. Personally I think it would make more sense for the world in the story to be an alternate present with the virtual reality since even in the book it came out in 2012, 5 years ago! . I Just think in 2040 there are going to be bigger things than video games, and I also
