Yet another "ID this PC game" (sci-fi RPG)

[GM80]

I know we have a plethora of these threads ... if there's a central place for them that I couldn't find, please feel free to move this to that location.

I have memories of a PC game I played many moons ago, around 1990. I played it in CGA at the time, although it may have supported more colors than that.

This was a sci-fi RPG / adventure title, and the basic screen layout consisted of a static graphic of your current location, a menu, and a dialog box.

I distinctly remember three things: sex, drugs, and some sort of black market "neurochip" or "implant" trade going on. I also remember the environments being somewhat Middle Eastern in nature.

It's not Neuromancer, although I imagine it looks fairly similar based on the Neuromancer screen shots I've seen.

[slapdash]

Not sure about a game, but that reminds me of a book, "When Gravity Fails" by George Alec Effinger. Actually, it was a series, known encompassingly as the Budayeen series. Others were "A Fire In The Sun" and "The Exile Kiss". Doing a quick search shows that the game you're thinking of is probably "Circuit's Edge". See this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit's_Edge

[GM80]

Circuit's Edge

BAM! Recognized it as soon as I read the title, and it is indeed based on the books mentioned. Thanks!

[maxlords]

Wow...I read When Gravity Falls.....I had no idea they actually based a GAME off it. That's just wild.

[MrSparkle]

haven't read that book OR played that game, so yea how are they guys?

[slapdash]

The books are alright if you're a cyberpunk fan; there's a lot of the "whoa" little details of the CP world, with an Islamic slant, but it's probably not as detail after detail as Gibson or Stephenson. Of course, it's been years since I've read them (hmm, reminds me, I need to pick up Budayeen Nights, the collection of short stories in that universe, plus the two chapters of the fourth book that Effinger was working on when he died) so I might be misremembering.