What was the first cyberpunk video game you played? Were you playing the point & click adventure games back on DOS? Shadowrun on SNES? Deus Ex on PC? Or did you just recently discover this thing called “cyberpunk” with Cyberpunk 2077?
I’m curious how long everyone here has been into cyberpunk.
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Syndicate wars. I think they was cyberpunk.
For me it was the original Syndicate. Quite an awesome game.
Does Jet Set Radio Future count as cyberpunk?
I’d say it does. Have you seen the new-ish game Bomb Rush Cyberfunk? It looks just like JSRF to me.
It’s amazing and well worth the price.
Deus ex invisible war. On PS2.
I still liked it.
Deus Ex. Give me the GEP gun
Remember that a nonlethal takedown is always the most silent takedown.
The GEP gun takedown is always the most silent way to eliminate Manderley.
Don’t believe me? It’s all in the numbers.
It’s a silent takedown if no one else is alive to hear it 😎
“Stick with the prod.”
Does Perfect Dark count as cyberpunk?
Maybe a little, with a game that wierd it’s hard to tell
I’m a huge scifi nerd. I’ve seen Bladerunner, and am well aware of Cyberpunk, but 2077 was my first game of the genre.
Syndicate. Control 4 agents doing corporate espionage missions.
Syndicate I have fond memories of, seems cyberpunk enough. Deus Ex was also a lot of fun, though my computer at the time could barely run it.
Plenty of anime from the 90s that fit the theme as well.
I’m ashamed to say the only Syndicate game I’ve played is the 2012 FPS reboot which was basically Syndicate in name only.
Although, the original Syndicate creator was so mad about the 2012 reboot that he made Satellite Reign as a spiritual successor, and I really enjoyed that one.
I don’t remember hearing about Satellite Reign, looks awesome. I’m going to have to check that out!
This answer may be a cheat and a stretch, but hear me out…
Star Wars: Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight
Specifically, the opening levels set in Nar Shaddaa, one of my favorite, underappreciated locations in the extended universe.
The whole moon was one giant, grimey, neon-lit city blanketed in night, overrun with sleazy organized criminals and jazz music. Pretty big noir vibes too.
It’s the first time I remember experiencing the aesthetic, which felt so sharply different from the colorful, swashbuckling Star Wars I had known. And I knew I loved it.
Shadowrun on SNES. And I’m running Shadowrun tonight for the first time in literal decades (I last GMed it when I was in middle school!), for people who haven’t played before; I’m so nervous and unprepared! I hope that even if I mangle the rules I can get across the vibes.
Good luck!
Thanks chummer, I’ll need it!
Don’t get brain-burnt! (Am I doing it right, been too long…)
Thanks, I didn’t flatline! One of my players couldn’t make this week so I improvised a variant on the classic Food Fight intro scenario so that we could familiarize ourselves with the combat without going off on a run sans street samurai. In retrospect I’m not sure I handled recoil penalties correctly, and we slogged through the rulebook looking for some things like “Why does spell Force matter again?” but in the end only one of the players got mildly shot, and the mage manabolted a guy so hard that he totally fried from the inside out, so I’m calling it a success!
That sounds awesome, nice job!
Well, Oddworld for gameboy probably doesn’t count but it was my first game in this kind of dark setting, even though there’s some NPC and alien town with futuristic elements, it’s probably not punk enough.
Nomad Soul. Sick cyberpunk detective game that also featured David Bowie. Always sticks in my brain as such a cool one
…i was going to say flashback or mean streets, but no, it was definitely the original tron arcade game; that pre-dated even war games…
…before a certain point in the early eighties, the line between cyberpunk and science fiction gets pretty blurry, so i don’t think anything i played in the seventies counts…
Shadowrun: Returns from Hair Brained Schemes.
Had no idea there was a Neuromancer video game.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer_(video_game)
Anyways, probably System Shock 2 for me.
If you want to try it out, you can play the Neuromancer game in your browser at the internet archive.
