William Gibson’s Neuromancer , the novel generally credited with creating the cyberpunk genre, was published in 1984. The work’s prescience is all the more remarkable given that computers at the time were nowhere near capable of creating the fully immersive virtual environments Gibson envisioned when he coined the term “cyberspace.”
The dominant microcomputer of the era was the Commodore 64, released in early 1982, on which those of your correspondent’s vintage whiled away many happy hours playing classics like Paradroid , Elite , Archon , and … Neuromancer , a hugely underappreciated game based on Gibson’s novel. That game probably deserves…
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