90's

The screech of a modem connecting, a cassette wound back with a pencil, a cartridge you blew on before pushing it into the console. 90s posters are nostalgia in fluorescent colour. Aurify's retro section gathers that decade into posters printed in Tunisia.

Memphis shapes, pixels and grey windows

Visually, the 90s spoke two languages. On one side, the Memphis shapes born in Milan in the early 80s and everywhere a decade later: zigzags, confetti, pink and teal triangles on pastel. On the other, the grey restraint of Windows 95-style windows, with navy title bars and bevelled buttons.

The section mixes both, adding video-game pixels and the neon grids of arcade halls. It is cheerful, a little kitsch, and completely unapologetic about it.

The funny part is that many retro fans never lived through the decade. They inherited it from older siblings, from cartridges found at the back of a drawer and theme songs sung around the family TV. The Game Boy, released in 1989, and the PlayStation, which reached Europe in 1995, became icons far beyond their own generation. Their shapes, their start screens and their grey plastic are now as recognisable as any film poster.

What you'll find

• Video games: Nintendo & Game Boy, PlayStation 1, Sega and Sonic, plus the Arcade page for neon grids and "Press Start" screens.
• Music: Tapes & Mixtapes, the decade's hip-hop and the long shadow of Michael Jackson.
• The living-room screen: the childhood cartoons whose Arabic theme songs many of us still know by heart, and the Friends gang at Central Perk.
• Computers: Retro Computers, progress bars and floppy disks for anyone who met the internet over dial-up.

Building a retro corner

A retro gaming setup needs very little: an old console, a screen and two or three posters in loud colours. The pink, cyan and yellow of the 90s look especially good on a white or pale grey wall, with a violet LED strip under the desk.

If you have a whole wall, try the 2×2 wall set: four posters, 3 cm apart, forming one neon grid about a metre tall. Add a bright pouf, a shelf with a few cassettes or a Game Boy on display, and the time travel is complete.

For a kid's or teenager's room, these bright colours bring good humour without ever feeling gloomy, and they age surprisingly well: a pixel-art poster looks just as fun at twenty-five as it did at twelve.

Rewind, press Start and let your wall drop thirty years. We deliver to every governorate, and you pay on delivery.