The popular iPhone/iPad app VHS Camcorder will make your HD footage of today look like it's shoot in the 80's. What began as a fun small-scale project, has earned Thomas Worth, who works with visual effects, some serious sales in the App Store:

Thomas Worth swears he didn't expect any of this. He never expected that, 10 days after it launched, VHS Camcorder, his goofy $3.99 video app, would be No. 2 on Apple's chart for paid apps, second only to Minecraft. Or the torrent of email, tweets, and castigating for an Android version. (It's coming, by the way.) Most of all, he didn’t expect people to love this crappy retro look as much as he does.

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Worth is 38, a child of the '80s, and an unrepentant lover of that decade’s wacky graphics and messy technology. He's been doing post-production and effects in LA for years, and in his free time occasionally would screw around in After Effects and upload ultra-'80s takes on the logo of his company Rarevision. One, featuring laser-lit stencils flying in to the sound of an epic synth track, struck a particular chord. "I put it on YouTube just for the hell of it," he says. "People were like, 'Oh my god, that's so cool, can you show me how to do that?'" He realized there was something nostalgic but also flat-out appealing about the decades-old aesthetic. He wondered, Could you make an app that would make your video look like an old tape?

YouTube user Steve Mays demonstrates the app:

Via Highsnobiety.