brown leather and blue denim

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These guys have boots, but they have blue denim and leather.

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Kirt from Shadowcaster. Couldn't find a gameplay picture, but here's the cover art.

I think it was just the style at the time, inspired by Arnold and Indiana .etc

Hopefully at some point we'll return to this kind of every man protagonist without having to deal with cringy humour on the side.

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Biker clad was also a popular style back then.

>>3875879
I think it's just the simplicity and practicality of it. Just about everyone had a pair of jeans and a brown heavy (maybe not leather) jacket in their closet back then, so it probably didn't take too long for movies and vidya to notice the trend.
Also Last Action Hero was pretty awesome, probably in my top 5 of Arnold movies.

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>>3875879
It's masculine and no-nonsense. Back then heroes didn't have to be fashion statements, just get the job done

>>3875879
I think you're overestimating the prevalence of this look. Maybe it was in the games you played, but it was just one of the many outfits.
'80s mainstream zeitgeist could be described as "cool conservative". It was strong and patriotic, but also with a badass vibe. And what's a more cool and timeless American look than a pair of jeans and a leather jacket?

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>>3875904
Wow, it's almost like Japanese and American cultures are two different entities! No way that's true though.

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>>3875918

I think the outfit is quite comfy.
It's a shame I'll have to hang my jacket soon, by the middle of April it'll be too hot to wear.

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>>3875942
Get a leather vest

>>3875926
What's your point

>>3875956
that faggotry and walking fashion statements aren't limited to japan?

>>3875957
I was saying that American and Japanese cultures are very different. What's normal in Japan can be seen as disgusting and unacceptable in America, and vice versa. Japanese developers aren't really obliged to follow Western Christian norms even if they sell their games to that auditory. Don't like it—don't buy it.

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>>3875879
Harry Mason from Silent Hill.

Its funny that this is supposed to be an every man but he happens to be a badass.

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>>3875881
The sequel too

>>3876005
I dress exactly like this.

>>3875918
Anon, what the fuck are you talking about? Everyone knows American culture is world culture!

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>>3876023

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>>3875918
fashion in japan at the time was pretty similar honestly.
lotta pants and tees

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>>3876053
big loose shirts

>>3876053
Yep. In the '80s, they pretty much mirrored Western mainstream in most things. From Contra and Hokuto no Ken, to their metal and new-wave.
Then at some point they went very separate routes. While the West was busy throwing away scene and glam, Japan stuck to it with gothic/Victorian look.
So nowadays in Japan it's still cool to rock a mullet with a bright leather jacket and a pocket chain, when in the West it'd be labeled cringeworthy by many.

>>3876074
>in Japan it's still cool to rock a mullet with a bright leather jacket and a pocket chain,

I'm not so sure about that, if your country is modernized then media travels pretty fast. Unless the country is completely poor, then you're gonna see the world shift at the same speed, with select deviants (as in any culture).

Even in the middle east where I grew up 70's and 80's and 90's fashion came and went at virtually the same speed.

>>3876074
>So nowadays in Japan it's still cool to rock a mullet with a bright leather jacket and a pocket chain
Please tell me more about Japan, upperclassman!

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>>3876053

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Not blue denim, but same style.

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>>3876660
Also in the sequel that no one remembers.

>>3875879
I think you just posted the answer, Arnold wore it, and it was fashionable at the time.
Also, it's really easy to tell what's what in 16 bit graphics with limited color palette - leather jacket is brown, shirt is some primary color to draw your eye, and jeans are blue. More complex designs were hard. Mind you, another popular and simple look, tanktop with bare muscles, was also Arnold/Stallone inspired and was also kinda everywhere (from Contra to Blackthorne).

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>>3875918
it's funny cause you're obnoxious AND wrong.

>>3875897
For a while there was the "bald space marine" type of protagonist in games. That was essentially the Everyman of a post-9/11 world though: buzzcut, silent and angsty young men unsure of their place in the system.

>>3877782
It wasn't Arnold that popularized it though, it was Indiana Jones.

And Last Action Hero bombed hard (I loved the movie, but it performed awful in the cinemas, partially because of the comedy formula alien to Arnold movies, and partially because it opened next to fucking Jurassic Park).