Last month, when we were discussing Cyberpunk 2077 (in the comments), I stumbled across a little Xbox indy game called “Cyberdeck“. It’s a game that recreates the gameplay (though, granted, not the graphics) of the Sega Genesis Shadowrun hacking game.
Now, the Sega Shadowrun had a fairly bland story but an absolutely *AWESOME* bunch of subgames where you, the decker, took your deck and broke into various mainframes. You had to fight ice, you had to drill through walls, you had to run analysis programs to steal the data you needed… it *FELT* like cyberrunning a corporation should feel like. And, now that I think about it, that game was so awesome I can’t believe that it’s taken this long to recreate it.
Anyway, Cyberdeck is an XBox Live Indie game. It costs one buck. Not bad. Now, of course, the downside is that the tutorials aren’t *THAT* good and I’m still trying to figure out what my “smoke 1.0” program does but, dang, it *FEELS* like that old Sega game once I get past the awful graphics. (And, hey, it’s a buck.)
So… what are you playing?
Jaybird, are you aware of Shadowrun Returns? I believe the expected release is June. Here is the Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns
I am a backer, and I am looking forward to getting my hands on it.
Oh, yeah. Yes indeed.
My apprehension, if you want to call it that, is that everything I’ve seen about the game takes place in meatspace. But I’ll be getting that on day one.
Yeah, Jonathan Winters is going to be missed. Robin Williams wrote a nice remembrance here.
Jonathan’s improvs on “Mork & Mindy” were legendary. People on the Paramount lot would pack the soundstage on the nights we filmed him. He once did a World War I parody in which he portrayed upper-class English generals, Cockney infantrymen, a Scottish sergeant no one could understand and a Zulu who was in the wrong war. The bit went on so long that all three cameras ran out of film. Sometimes I would join in, but I felt like a kazoo player sitting in with Coltrane.
playing anodyne. it’s ok enough. i feel like it’s stabbing at something but the payoff is going to just annoy me.