THAT would be a hysterical piece of performance art.
BTW tenbones, did you play Cyberpunk 2020 at the LA conventions in the 90s with a crew who wore mirrorshades at the table? I was talking to an old friend about the LA cons and he reminded me about that Cyber-RPG crew. Their games were always full, but the odd part was how most of the players wore mirrorshades.
That was back when half (or more) of my Saturday night tables were gamers wearing their goth costumes for the midnight Vampire LARP.
I ran CP2020 at Strategicon, OrcCon and Gamex pretty much from 1989-1994. As soon as CP2020 dropped in 88, I was prepping my first convention adventure - which clocked in at over 80-pages long and was designed for a multi-session tournament with three different groups started from three-different starting points that culminated in the survivors of each group forming a super-group for the final day of the convention. That format kind of became a tradition for me specifically for CP2020 for a few years, and it was extremely popular.
I never wore mirrorshades, personally, I usually wore Wayfarers back then, but I occasionally wore Vuarnet's too, LOL but I don't recall ever wearing shades while GMing (maybe they were on top of my head?). However, I did have LOTS of players that did wear their trenchcoats, shades etc. quasi-larping etc. which by the early 90's it was pretty common. I'm 90% sure that it was me you're talking about specifically because during that time, in terms of GM's running CP2020 officially for the Con's, I think there was only *two* other GM's running CP2020, and their games... were not very good. I always had alternate lists from the very start because CP2020 was the "hot ticket" when it landed, and my GM feedback pretty much always made my tournament slots a premium after the first year's game. I had about three groups that *religiously* attended my events all year long for CP2020. Edit: and I'll confess I kept doing CP2020 long after I wanted to stop running it... but expectations were set, and I felt kinda obligated.
And I pretty much *only* ran CP2020 and AD&D, and I ran two four-hour CP2020 sessions for two-days, and one four-hour session on day three. I'd fit ONE 4-hr AD&D slot in there. That was my normal routine. So it was probably me as the GM I'd be willing to bet. Those were very good times.
Second Edit: That's funny, when I wanted to stop running CP2020... it was because I wanted to run Vampire. But alas... my then-budding writing career pulled me out of the convention-scene entirely.