80s Pop Variety Pack - for experts only 🕹

The work and its context

80s Pop Variety Pack - for experts only 🕹 is project 346 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, published under the canonical slug 80s-pop-variety-pack-for-experts-only-by-daniel-catt and credited to Daniel Catt. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 366 of 366 invocations, runtime js@na, and the official description: As the sun sets on the 70s, things become bigger, bolder and brasher. 80s Pop enters a new decade of extravagance with cutting-edge vector graphics, stylish modern patterns, cable TV and mainframe access. A celebration of 1988, a whole year of games, tech and art crammed into one variety pack. The only way we could fit more in would be to put it on laserdisc. Purchasing is suggested for expert users only and those already familiar with 70s Pop; fortune shines on the brave, and rarity is an illusion. Keyboard controls - not mobile Space - Start, perhaps. , . - Left/Right, sometimes. Q A P L - Up-ish, Down-ish, other times. s - Save screenshot (slow). h - Toggle highrez (even slower). Interactive elements are for desk/laptop only as they require keyboard input, Chrome recommended for the smoothest experience. Highscores 👀 may be kept in localStorage on your browser. ¹²

Those figures are current index observations retrieved on 2026-09-19, not a reconstruction of the original public sale announcement. Atlas position is a catalogue ordinal and is not the on-chain project ID. The live collection page and the Hasura projects_metadata row agree on title, slug, contract, and project ID after a filtered query that used the exact slug. ¹²

Contract 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270. Aspect ratio indexed as 1.0. Website https://twitter.com/revdancatt.

This essay treats the stored artist program, four independently identified outputs, and a freshly checked AB5D holding (or an explicit collection gap) as primary evidence. Metadata traits are cited only when they were returned for the same V2 contract token IDs that were visually inspected. They do not replace looking at the pictures. ³⁴

Conception and development

The official project description is the development account used here. Interview or dossier sentences that name a different slug are not treated as statements about this series. As the sun sets on the 70s, things become bigger, bolder and brasher. 80s Pop enters a new decade of extravagance with cutting-edge vector graphics, stylish modern patterns, cable TV and mainframe access. A celebration of 1988, a whole year of games, tech and art crammed into one variety pack. The only way we could fit more in would be to put it on laserdisc. Purchasing is suggested for expert u

The development account used here is the specific source named in the citations, not a paraphrase of an artist-dossier page. Where that account is an official project description written in the artist's voice, that limit is stated rather than upgraded into an unpublished studio diary. Where an interview exists, the sentences that actually name 80s Pop Variety Pack - for experts only 🕹 are the ones relied on. ⁵¹

Secondary pages that only repeat the marketplace listing are not treated as independent conception sources. ²⁵

How the work was constructed

The complete artist program for slug 80s-pop-variety-pack-for-experts-only-by-daniel-catt was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 68791 bytes with SHA-256 e3523140107ecdeaed5d70e4d030b2fac2245bbd6fba9add2e9147926cace478. Runtime on the project record is js@na. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. ⁶

The stored generator is 68791 bytes, SHA-256 e3523140107ecdeaed5d70e4d030b2fac2245bbd6fba9add2e9147926cace478, runtime js@na. Detected source markers: draw, keydown, requestAnimationFrame, AudioContext, tokenData, hash. Named functions include no function keyword matches. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 111,197,222). File size 596002 bytes. Indexed features: Mode Pop; Lines 6; Style Flush; Tiles 5; Palette Bubblegum Crisis; Alternative Yes; Day of Year Friday, 1st January 1988; Secondary palette Red vs Blue

Visual claims come from inspected media-proxy PNGs plus indexed token features.

Seed handling is visible in the retrieved program: tokenData.hash is read in source. Time and interaction behaviour in code is: Source contains a continuing-draw or audio/WebGL constructor. The inspected PNG is one frame. Live timing and soundtrack were not captured this session. A handler found in source is not the same thing as a control that was pressed in a live renderer during this session; tested controls are listed only when an actual key or pointer action was performed. ⁶⁷

External dependencies are those declared by script_type_and_version plus any library identifiers inside the file. Public visibility of the stored script does not grant a right to redistribute the raw artist source in this package, so the analysis cites functions and byte length rather than reprinting the program. ⁶⁸

The mint

Indexed chronology for project 346 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-08-11T21:32:07+00:00. activated_at is 2022-08-12T23:52:40+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-08-17T17:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2022-08-17T17:00:32+00:00. Invocations stand at 366 of a maximum 366, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 26.34 hours; activation to start_datetime is 4.71 days; start_datetime to completion is 0.5 minutes; first mint to completion is 5.81 days. These are differences of indexed clock fields, not a claim about when a web storefront button became visible to every collector. A first mint that precedes start_datetime is treated as an early or reserved mint unless a separate allocation record is produced. ²³

Indexed clocks: first 2022-08-11T21:32:07+00:00, activated 2022-08-12T23:52:40+00:00, start 2022-08-17T17:00:00+00:00, completed 2022-08-17T17:00:32+00:00. Early first-mint timestamps are not labelled reserved without a separate allocation record.

Historic per-token ETH prices for the original public sale were not recovered from a primary price table during this session and remain unresolved. Any floor price visible on a marketplace page in 2026 is a current listing observation, not the 2021 ask. ¹²

Copyright and licensing

The project record stores the artwork licence label 'NFT License 2.0'. That label is not a Creative Commons version string and is recorded as a custom or unknown artwork term. Code rights for the artist program are not separately labelled on the same field; they are treated as unknown rather than assumed identical to the artwork deed. ²⁸

Artwork label copied exactly as 'NFT License 2.0'.

Third-party runtime js@na is a separate rights object from both the artwork outputs and the artist source. p5.js, three.js, and ordinary browser JavaScript each keep their own licence texts. This package does not redistribute those libraries. ⁶⁸

Original essay prose in this package is dedicated CC0-1.0 by the research operator. That dedication does not change the artwork, code, or dependency licences.

Close reading of examples

80s Pop Variety Pack - for experts only 🕹 #0 is token 346000000 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-08-11T21:32:07+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 111,197,222). File size 596002 bytes. Indexed features: Mode Pop; Lines 6; Style Flush; Tiles 5; Palette Bubblegum Crisis; Alternative Yes; Day of Year Friday, 1st January 1988; Secondary palette Red vs Blue Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Mode Pop; Lines 6; Style Flush; Tiles 5; Palette Bubblegum Crisis; Alternative Yes; Day of Year Friday, 1st January 1988; Secondary palette Red vs Blue. ³⁹⁴

80s Pop Variety Pack - for experts only 🕹 #1 is token 346000001 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-08-17T16:59:24+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 196,131,206). File size 235557 bytes. Indexed features: Mode Pop; Lines 4; Style Classic; Tiles 3; Palette Greyscale; Alternative Yes; Day of Year Saturday, 2nd January 1988; Secondary palette Blue Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Mode Pop; Lines 4; Style Classic; Tiles 3; Palette Greyscale; Alternative Yes; Day of Year Saturday, 2nd January 1988; Secondary palette Blue. ³⁹⁴

80s Pop Variety Pack - for experts only 🕹 #10 is token 346000010 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-08-17T16:59:24+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 100,26,88). File size 1301738 bytes. Indexed features: Mode Pop; Lines 6; Style Flush; Tiles 9; Palette Vapor; Alternative No; Day of Year Monday, 11th January 1988; Secondary palette Red vs Blue, Hot Peach Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Mode Pop; Lines 6; Style Flush; Tiles 9; Palette Vapor; Alternative No; Day of Year Monday, 11th January 1988; Secondary palette Red vs Blue, Hot Peach. ³⁹⁴

80s Pop Variety Pack - for experts only 🕹 #20 is token 346000020 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-08-17T16:59:24+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 73,65,92). File size 992507 bytes. Indexed features: Mode Pop; Lines 6; Style Classic; Tiles 6; Palette Juice Carton; Alternative No; Day of Year Thursday, 21st January 1988; Secondary palette Annie, Swatch Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Mode Pop; Lines 6; Style Classic; Tiles 6; Palette Juice Carton; Alternative No; Day of Year Thursday, 21st January 1988; Secondary palette Annie, Swatch. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 346000178 (edition 178), currently indexed to 0xdd19308a9731cdecb67e0d80ca6823394208c045, which is one of the three linked addresses returned for username ab5d on 2026-09-19. That ownership match is a present-tense index observation, not proof of continuous custody since mint. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 135,129,151). File size 1013614 bytes. Indexed features: Mode Pop; Lines 5; Style Chonky; Tiles 13; Palette Grace; Alternative No; Day of Year Monday, 27th June 1988; Secondary palette My Little Pony ¹⁰³⁴

Motion, interaction, and audio: Source contains a continuing-draw or audio/WebGL constructor. The inspected PNG is one frame. Live timing and soundtrack were not captured this session. The static PNGs document halt or preview states. They are not by themselves proof that a live loop is still running, nor proof that a work is silent. No soundtrack was heard from these pages during this session. ⁴⁷⁶

Significance and limitations

80s Pop Variety Pack - for experts only 🕹 is project 346 by Daniel Catt on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270. The close readings above are the evidence for what the stored program outputs.

Unresolved research questions that remain after this pass: (1) What was the exact public-sale unit price in ETH at start_datetime, supported by a contemporaneous primary source rather than a later floor? (2) For tokens whose live renderer was not stopwatch-timed, what is the measured wall-clock period of one full cycle or one completed progressive draw? (3) What contemporaneous primary source records the original public unit price in ETH? (4) Incomplete Control aside, do any of the three current AB5D wallets later acquire or dispose of the header token used above after 2026-09-19? ²¹⁰⁷

This package is a draft for human review. Structural validation tests file shape, not the truth of seeing or of licence interpretation.