This photo- can you guess when it was taken?

The answer is today, June 25th, 2017.

This photo was an attempt to re-create, or give the impression of a 90s time period and is the workstation where I play some games. It includes the Sharp X68000 computer which retailed exclusively in Japan in the late 80s- early 90s.

This machine works and is shown in this post playing Gradius III.

In the photo

• Sharp X68000, CRT monitor

• Original Japanese keyboard for the Sharp

• Nintendo Power 1993 April issue

• IR 7000 pocket organizer (1994)

• Boxes for Sharp X68000 games: Xak, Lagoon, and Gradius III. They're booklets containing 5 1/4" floppies

• Commodore 64 and accessories in boxes on the shelf

• couple FDDs and HDDs from the early 90s, on the shelf

• Functioning rotary phone

• "Puppies" calendar from 1995- the dates for that year happen to line up such that it can also be used for 2017

I didn't do anything funny to cause the weird compression-looking artifacts. The digital camera used to take the photo was, in technical terms, "not very good"

For a photo to be "Undateable" means that it conveys a different time period from the one in which it was taken. This one contains not just the computer work station but also enough other things to make it sufficiently convincing. Still, there are one or two anachronisms keeping it from being totally consistent. Some things are off. Maybe you can spot them.