Night Owl Video

The night shift nobody wanted. The customers are gone, the neon is buzzing and Night Owl Video is a disaster. Over two thousand VHS tapes cover the floors of a chrome-and-ice-blue Y2K rental store: three rooms, a mezzanine, a loft across a steel bridge and a back room nobody talks about. Your job: put every single tape back where it belongs. Sort by genre and decade Horror, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi and Drama, each split into the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Every tape has its own slot, and every shelf you finish lights up a little celebration. Hundreds of original parody covers Hand-made covers inspired by the movies you grew up with, from slashers and space operas to buddy-cop comedies. Spot the joke in every title. Be kind, rewind Some customers never rewind. Feed those tapes to the car-shaped rewinder at the checkout and listen to it whirr. Scratched DVDs don't belong on the shelf at all: drop them in the RETURNS bin by the door. A store full of distractions - Buy a soda from the vending machine and actually drink it (sugar rush included) - Race through midnight traffic on the loft CRT in HYPERLANE, a tiny 2000-era console game - Find 12 chrome owls hidden around the store - Snap photos with the NOVA PIX 2000 digital camera - Spin around (badly) on the office chair - Flip the big breaker in the back room… and see what happens - Pet the cat on top of the soda machine Pure physics, zero pressure Grab, stack, spin and throw tapes however you like. Stash a few in your quick slots, roll the ladder over for the top shelves, cross the bridge to the loft. No timer, no fail state. Your progress saves automatically.