What would you say are the best old-school cyberpunk video games?

Note that I don’t actually care if it’s the “best”, I’m just looking for some fun older games to play. So give me something better than Raid 2020 and I’ll call it a win.

I’m thinking things like:

And just to prove they don’t have to be GOTY contenders…

So yeah, give me some recommendations from the NES/SNES/N64 era (I’m not convinced there’s anything worth playing from the ZX Spectrum/Commodore 64 era). Maybe some Arcade (MAME) games too? I can’t think of any cyberpunk arcade games.

I’ve never played Omikron: The Nomad Soul or BloodNet before. Not sure if they’re worth my time.

  • AzazariDanger@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
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    I mean, I’m definitely being nicer to it because I have a soft spot for the film, for sure. I tend to give it the benefit of the doubt in that, if the first movie showed us what it might look like when normal users interact with a computer in normal ways, and write programs based on what they want them to do/output, then the second movie is showing us what it might look like if programs were created for the sake of them existing, and they don’t necessarily “do” anything for a user on the outside. Like, if I code up program to be a calculator on the terminal, it might look at behave a certain way on the grid. But, if I go into the grid, and create a program that’s good at math, would it still be a calculator on the terminal? Or would it more likely do nothing when called, because it wasn’t written to take input and produce output on the terminal?

    It’s an interesting question, and I think it can go a long way to excusing the breakdown of the computer metaphors in Legacy, but again, this is mostly my interpretation, it’s not explicitly confirmed by the text itself.

    Sadly, I doubt we’ll get any more movies exploring these concepts any time soon. Legacy was supposed to be the start of a trilogy, but it didn’t make enough money, so the rest of it was canned by Disney. I think it’d me more likely to see some animated/live action Disney+ exclusive series in a few years, when they get tired of churning out Star Wars everything.

    In any event, to bring this back around to the original question, I’ve added Tron 2.0 to my steam wishlist for the next sale, lol.

    • identity-disc@lemmy.villa-straylight.socialOP
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      In any event, to bring this back around to the original question, I’ve added Tron 2.0 to my steam wishlist for the next sale, lol.

      Haha, and that’s all that really matters. 😁

      I don’t mean to keep this Tron discussion going… but I do want to make sure you’re aware of Tron: Uprising already on Disney+ and Tron: Ares with Jared Leto which is filming now.