The controls aren’t too complicated and the speeder is indestructible, so there’s no risk of dying in this section. We start with a flight simulator section (taken from another Access game, Echelon), where you take control of your speeder flying car and travel through the game’s various locations in California, but you can only land in landing pads. Right from the start, you’ll notice that Mean Streets isn’t a traditional adventure game, but more like a mix of different genres. Of course, the story spirals into something a lot bigger than a simple scientist’s death. You’ve been hired by Sylvia Linsky (the blonde woman depicted on the cover and on the title screen) to investigate her father’s suicide, which she suspects of murder. Overall, it’s a good cover, but as you’ll find out soon, it has little to do with the game.īut, it’s finally time to boot this sucker:Īs you can read in the short intro text (or more detailed in the manual), you play as Tex Murphy, a down-on-his-luck private detective living in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, in the distant year of 2033. And 3rd, while the background is undoubtedly futuristic, it looks nothing like the entire series’ dystopian look. While the woman does resemble one of the lesser characters in the game, the man looks more like Conrad B. 2nd, the characters depicted here look nothing like the game’s main characters. Where to begin? 1st, both the title and the art style definitely has a European urban sci-fi look, like taken from a Métal Hurlant magazine cover. I love this cover! It’s very reminiscent of the original Blade Runner movie poster, with a shot of Chris Jones (the designer and face of Tex Murphy throughout the entire series) holding a gun over an image of a futuristic city along with his love interest.īut however, the European release had this interesting cover: And it was re-released in 2014 for Windows, Macintosh and Linux by Night Dive Studios under the title Tex Murphy: Mean Streets.īut as always, let’s first look at the covers, shall we? It was ported the next year (in Europe only) for the Amiga and Atari ST. Mean Streets is an adventure game made by Access Software and originally released in 1989 for the Commodore 64 and DOS. I’m obviously talking about Mean Streets. But this time, it features perhaps the most famous private detective in computer gaming: Tex Murphy. And again we’re taking a look at a game series, that like many others, started in the 80s or 90s (80s in this particular case), still continues to this day and became famous around its 3rd entry.
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