Renault 6 L
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_6
The front seat was, like the rear, one long bench running the width of the car like a cut-price vinyl couch from a budget furniture warehouse in Gdansk. The gear stick was accordingly situated in the middle of the dashboard and resembled the handle from a lady's umbrella.
The Renault 6 is a family car made in the late 1960's. It was made to compete with the Citroen Ami 6 and the Citroen Dyane; it had a few similar things to these cars, for example it had a similar dashboard mounted gear lever.
1979 Porsche 928
Games
One of the worlds most famous games was released in 1979. Puckman, which we now know as Packman. It could also be considered the start of vecter games with major titles such as Asteroids, Lunar Lander and Tail Gunner designed using line graphics style.
http://classicgames.about.com/b/2009/12/31/the-best-classic-video-games-of-1979-a-retro-year-in-review.htm
Film
Also the award winning sci-fi horror film, Alien was released in 1979. H.R.Giger was the artist that designed the fantastic setting for the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjLamj-b0I8
H.R.Giger
Hans Rudolf Giger is a swiss surrealist painter, sculpter, and set designer. He was part of the special effects team that won an academy award for best achievement for visual effects for their design work on the film Alien.
Giger was born in Chur, Graubunden, switzerland, the son of a chemist. HE spoke of a father who viewed art as a 'breadless profession' and strongly encouraged his son to enter into pharmaceutics. Despite this, in 1962, he moved to zurich, where he studied architecture and industrial design at the school of applied arts.
Giger's style and thematic execution have been influential. His design for the Alien was inspired by his painting 'Necronom' and earned him an oscar in 1980. Giger got his start with small ink drawings before progressing to oil paintings. For most of his career, Giger has worked predominantly in airbrush, creating monochromatic canvasses depicting surreal, nightmarish dreamscapes.
Fashion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_in_fashion
Flared jeans were very popular towards the end of the 1970's.
There were various different styles during 1979.
You had Disco, Custom T-Shirts and baseball Jerseys, One - Piece Swimsuits, and Punk.
Short sleeved t-shirts and various different colors where personalized with iron-on sticker illustrations. this kind of thing was very popular among teens in the US.
Punk originated in London from the designer Vivienne Westwood and her Partner Malcolm Mclaren.
Punk fashion can be seen as ripped jeans, torn t-shirts, scrappy haircuts, and worn out leather jackets
Electronics
Intellivision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2a2Es765EM
Intellivision is a games console released by mattel in 1979. It started development in 1978 and was completed less than a year after its main competitor, the atari 2600.
Over 3 million units of the intellivsion were sold and a total of 125 games were released for the console.
Intellivision did go on to make a second console in 1982. This featured detachable controllers and a sleeker case.
1979 also saw a prototype of a mobile phone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vix6TMnj9vY
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