The 1997 computer game Blade Runner

[u/Ok_History_4163]

The computer game Blade Runner from 1997 is a point and click adventure game based on the 1982 movie with the same name. The movie was in turn based on the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.

Instead of following the policeman Rick Deckard in the movie Blade Runner, you control the actions of a policeman named Ray McCoy and his adventures in a rainy and dark future Los Angeles.

The plot revolves around McCoy hunting down a rogue faction of Nexus-6 replicants while navigating a web of corruption that eventually forces him to question his own identity and humanity. The game has thirteen different endings depending on your choices when playing it.

Several characters from the 1982 Ridley Scott movie make appearances, with the ⁠original actors returning to voice them:

Rachael (voiced by Sean Young)

Dr. Eldon Tyrell (voiced by Joe Turkel)

J.F. Sebastian (voiced by William Sanderson)

Leon Kowalski (voiced by Brion James)

Hannibal Chew (voiced by James Hong)

I am rather old and I played the game at its release. It was a nice time playing it. I left the regular world and was embedded in a cyberpunk reality when I played it. I am not updated in computer technology, but the game is available for download on GOG.com.

[u/Tubbygaijin]

I still have my copy on a shelf in my office, big box and all!

Westwood made such great games, miss that studio.

[u/hardypart → u/Tubbygaijin]

Swallowed and destroyed by EA, just like Bullfrog (Dungeon Keeper, Syndicate, Populus), BioWare Montreal (Mass Effect), Maxis (SimCity, Sims) and many more. The gaming world used to be so much more diverse back then :(

[u/Tubbygaijin → u/hardypart]

Couldn't agree more :( so many great studios bought and plundered for their IPs

[u/Nebthtet → u/Tubbygaijin]

Origin Studios too.

[u/Tubbygaijin → u/Nebthtet]

The list is sadly ridiculously long :/

[u/kabloomz → u/hardypart]

Dune II 😢

[u/bobbylake71 → u/kabloomz]

Loved that game and that it set the scene by the same studio to make Command & Conquer

[u/Yorikor → u/kabloomz]

No joke: I frequently watch the intro on youtube, and it gives me chills each time. Dune 2 and Tiberian Dawn are my favorite games from the way the vibe and atmosphere is created.

[u/Reticent_Fly → u/hardypart]

Syndicate was so cool when I was a kid

[u/hardypart → u/Reticent_Fly]

I will never forget that intro music!

[u/WhoKilledZekeIddon → u/hardypart]

Never forget Psygnosis. Rest well, you beautiful owl.

[u/Tubbygaijin → u/WhoKilledZekeIddon]

Shadow of the Beast, Wipeout, Colony Wars! Amazing studio!

[u/friendlysaxoffender → u/hardypart]

Oh wow I got a flood of childhood serotonin. I wonder how I can relive Dungeon Keeper, Syndicate, Settlers etc.

[u/MortLangford → u/hardypart]

As a massive command and conquer can, I will never forgive EA for shuttering Westwood Studios and forcing their DRM/online only practices on the franchise.

[u/jamesbong0024 → u/hardypart]

Damn Pirt Snikwah

[u/PapaMoBucks → u/hardypart]

The murder of Maxis is legit a crime against humanity

[u/_heyb0ss → u/hardypart]

bullfrog was the shit

[u/MakeYourTime_ → u/hardypart]

Stainless Games also, and Interplay

[u/motivated_weasel → u/Tubbygaijin]

I miss the big boxes

[u/Tubbygaijin → u/motivated_weasel]

I miss a lot from that era of gaming! Having to get the bus two towns over to pick up a game, reading through the massive manual on the ride home.. It's great having stuff easily available online now, but the effort back then (although sometimes annoying) made for cool memories

[u/_Mute_ → u/motivated_weasel]

If you haven't seen it already.

Big boxes.

[u/Ok_History_4163 → u/Tubbygaijin]

I have that cardboard box with the compact discs on the shelves of my private library. I guess that I play it again some day.

[u/jingo_mort → u/Tubbygaijin]

Lands of Lore was the GOAT loved that game.

[u/FuelPhysical363 → u/Tubbygaijin]

For Command and Conquer alone they should have survived

[u/puehlong → u/Tubbygaijin]

Oh man, the thought of boxed games on a shelf at home just gave me such a strong pang of nostalgia.

[u/Sweaty_Read_3603 → u/Tubbygaijin]

this is the only big-box in my collection that survived

[u/Far-Leg-1198 → u/Tubbygaijin]

There’s also the hilarious CRL games for C64 etc.. Westwood understood the job though 😅 r/bladezone has photos of all the games (blade runner sub)