1980s

1980s is a style in the BEE2 created by Carl Kenner And Teamspen210. This style takes place in the 1980, like in later parts of the chapter The Reunion in Portal 2. This is when they tested conversion gel. Ge plates are still being used instead of faith plates, and a mechanical version is still available. The 1980s era chambers are prototypes of the modern Aperture Facility. Walls have switched to mostly black and white concrete tiles, although some remain green or blue metal. Buttons and cubes are modern and use the modern appearance. Test chamber signage and antlines are now fully modern. Light strips are stacked in two, without a wooden backing.

Recommended Settings

Music: MoT Spheres 2
Voice : Cave Johnson (80s)
Skybox : Sphere Exterior
Elevator Video : Not Present

Stylevars

Opened Enrichment Sphere: Switches to a partially-constructed Enrichment Sphere, revealing the surrounding Test Shaft as in the only Conversion Gel test sphere. Due to the added detail, this does increase compile times.

Description In BEE2

Underground white gel enrichment sphere from 1985, now for testing employees.

This is when they started using black and white surfaces, so there's now black stone and white concrete, in addition to some old style walls.
This is also when they started working heavily on robots, so turrets look modern.
Modern elements are now mostly modern.
As seen on signs, modern cubes (from old droppers), prototypes of modern buttons (except pedestal buttons), and almost modern indicators (except for the corners) are now used.
Lights are white and the fog is blue.
They still use gel instead of faith plates.

Entry/Exit Variants

Entry

1.Lobby

2.Corridor

3.Office

4.Corridor

5.Corridor

6.Corridor

7.Corridor

Exit

1.Corridor

2.Corridor

3.Corridor

4.Corridor

Co-Op Spawn

1.Corridor

2.Corridor

3.Corridor

4.Corridor

Carl's description of the 1980s era:

Things changed a lot more in the 80s. We know from the posters that they used modern buttons, cubes, antlines (except the corners), indicators, and turrets. So all those things are modern. But I kept the old pedestal buttons and cube droppers. The modern things like light-bridges are back to their normal white plastic. They have finally mostly switched to black tiles and white concrete instead of wood, but there are still a few familiar green and blue textures around. Gratings are hardly rusted. The enrichment sphere is supposed to be open at the top, but so far I'm too lazy to do that. Fog is blue instead of grey. Employees are used for testing instead of homeless people, and employees are being urged to make way for robots. Offices look very different. Cave is dying (or dead) and Caroline is taking over some of his duties. And there's conversion gel. The 80s are different from other decades in that there are also 80s tests that aren't in enrichment spheres (mostly in the Art Therapy Coop course) in addition to the 80s enrichment spheres, but I'm just doing the 80s enrichment sphere style for now.