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The Game That Beat Cyberpunk | Shadowrun (SNES)

William SRD

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Despite it's recent high profile as a video game and anime, the OG tabletop that Cyberpunk was based on has spent the last 30 years under the boot of a much more successful tabletop system utilizing the cyberpunk genre.

Shadowrun is cyberpunk - but with magic, and elves.

Today we'll cover the Shadowrun timeline, as well as the first video game -Shadowrun for the SNES.

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20 Comments

@WilliamSRD Creator 2 years ago Pinned

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@Psilocybin77 1 year ago (edited)

Some men think about the Roman Empire, I think about Shadowrun (SNES) at least once a day. I went into high school with 0 friends, and met a guy who introduced me to RPGs, and we became best friends. (he loved RPGs so much you can find his name in the credits for Mass Effect 1 and 2). One summer he gave me the secret to beating the Vampire crypts part of Shadowrun, and I would be forever grateful. As so often happens we drifted apart, and this game will forever be a reminder of the friendships I had in those glorius days of my youth.

@qwellen7521 2 years ago (edited)

To think one of the most successful TTRPG’s in the world has a lore moment of “and then some of us went goblin mode”

@ShinoSarna 2 years ago

29:20 To be entirely fair to these morgue workers, undead are very much a real thing in this universe - some corpses might be possessed be evil spirits called shedim. So this was a pretty rational response.

@ronh4658 2 years ago

Another commenter alluded to this: if you bring hirelings along with you on the final mission, they all die in the final shootout - EXCEPT Kitsune, who makes it out with you in the helicopter. So Jake's got that going for him at least.

Also, there's a spot in the crypt where, if you have the best armor in the game, you can stand with all of your hirelings behind you. The ghouls can't get to them, and they can't get through you, and you can just leave the game running to grind.

@Hardworlder 2 years ago (edited)

You're damn right we want more Shadowrun. Cover all the games!

@PropaneWP 2 years ago

Steve Jackson Games also released the GURPS Cyberpunk RPG in 1990. As an aside, the Secret Service raided the SJG headquarters and confiscated the manuscript for this game, claiming it was a "handbook for computer crime".

@ThePhloop 2 years ago

Please don't forget the Harebrained Schemes Shadowrun Trilogy!

@hakanyucel7422 2 years ago

Please don’t stop this series of videos about shadow run games. I love it. You’ve done a great job here.

@andrewnewell1142 2 years ago (edited)

Still wild that a dragon runs for president in Shadowrun, and wins

E: and he gets instantly Kennedy’d

@willmistretta 2 years ago

FYI, Bremerton is a port town west of Seattle, which is presumably where the nameless ship in the game is docked. There's a naval base there.

The entire Shadowrun series is hilarious if you actually live in Seattle.

@ShinoSarna 2 years ago

16:53 Some people do become goblins, actually - Hobgoblin is a regional variant of Orc in Asia. This is distinct from just 'goblins', which are basically dwarf vampires.

@cmfort2696 2 months ago

It won't be long now...

@Jack-pm9wd 2 years ago

Shadowrun is a wild lore dive that this just barely touches the edge of. Would love to see more videos. I was always surprised there weren't more Shadowrun games out there.

@zacharythomasfreeman 2 years ago (edited)

So, the deal with Kitsune is that there are two versions of the SNES game. The original release gives you a narrative clue that you should interact with her because she is Jake's ex-girlfriend and has a sexually suggestive dialog option which were cut out of the later version. Also, if you keep her alive, she is one of the few NPCs that appears in the end game cutscenes.

Shadowrun is my favorite setting and RPG franchise, so I hope you get to cover the rest of the games!

@betterinsodapop 1 year ago

Hell yeah, would love to see the Genesis Shadowrun.

@kevinkim9620 8 months ago

6:45 this background lore is legit current events....just without the magic...very depressing...

@peaceofcrap 2 years ago

William System Reboot Decker is my new favorite version of William SRD

@IronChitlinSA 2 years ago

You have a serious gift for explaining tabletop settings to ignorant people like me who only play video games. If your videos were just about the backstory, they would still be great. I started playing the first Harebrained Shadowrun RPG a while back and I might have been more into it had I known about the absolute bonkers background lore.