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Cyberpunk: A tabletop history

For a lot of people, Cyberpunk 2077 begins with that first amazing trailer back in… wow, back in 2013. You know the one – a still image in 3D, of a highly cyborged woman who has clearly gone psychotic, surrounded by bodies, and about to be taken down by C-SWAT. The one with the fantastic track Bullets, by Archive (still well worth listening to).

Yeah, that trailer.

But Cyberpunk’s history as a tabletop game goes back way, way farther than that. In fact, it starts with a black box with three smaller black books inside, in the dim, dark, neon-coloured days of 1988. Yep, right

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