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. Control 4 agents doing corporate espionage missions.
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.
…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…
Deus ex invisible war. On PS2.
I still liked it.
Does Perfect Dark count as cyberpunk?
Maybe a little, with a game that wierd it’s hard to tell
I’m not really into that style of gaming, but I did try “Watch Dogs” for a couple hours. I mention this bc I thought the hacking part was the most interesting, and when I mentioned this to a friend they directed me to picoCTF: https://picoctf.org/. Basically this is a training environment aimed at high schoolers to teach them how to do hacking “capture the flag” competitions. So it’s realistic in terms of teaching real hacking skills, but back when I did it they had a “game mode” where your character walked through this 2D environment and solved challenges as part of a story. I could only solve some of the challenges, but still it was pretty cool. Anyway, the web page is still up, don’t know if they still have the game mode.
… Crystal caves?
Or Beneath a steel sky?Also Wolfenstein had that cyberdolf.
And Doom had cyberdemon.But my memory def goes to System Shocks and Deus Ex. Love them. Actually I love all of the mentioned.
Have you tried playing Beyond a Steel Sky? I haven’t played it but I can’t imagine a sequel released so many years after the original would be any good. I could be wrong though, maybe it’s fun.
Didn’t know about the sequel, it doesn’t look horrible tbh (I got past the modern-design-shock that hit me at first in 20 or 30 seconds as the trailer played).
But yeah, if I get around to play it I’ll def manage my expectations.
Shadowrun: Returns from Hair Brained Schemes.
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.
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
Tron for the Intellevision.
Flashback. Still one of my favorites too.
Shadowrun on the SNES
