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We trade a lot in nostalgia these days and nowhere is that felt more than in video games. A few glimpses of the right pixels and sound FX and you're taken back to hours spent on the Atari 2600 racing a Formula One car or finding all 96 levels of Super Mario World on the SNES.

This fondly remembered way to waste youth is the subject of the new music video for UK synth and drums duo Soccer96—Danalogue (Dan Leavers) and Betamax (Max Hallett)—and their dreamy RnB track "Up and Down," taken from album As Above So Below (Slowfoot Records). The visuals in the video, directed by Jimmy Wheeldon, pay homage to classic video games from the 70s to the 90s, from the Atari 2600 to the Sega Genesis (a.k.a., Mega Drive).

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