Welcome to the latest episode of Cult of the Old!
Each episode your hosts Iain McAllister, Matt Thrower, and Nate Owens are going to turn back the clock to look at games that are at least 10 years old. They’ll give their own critical impressions, tell you about the history of the game and its impact, and what relevance these games still have in the modern hobby landscape. 
“The sky above the port was the color of television, turned to a dead channel” 
The famous opening line of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer, released in 1984. Only a couple of years before in his short story ‘Burning Chrome’ Gibson had defined the term “Cyberspace”. He used it to refer to a global network of interconnected computers. In publishing Neuromancer Gibson helped solidify the genre of Cyberpunk and the rest is history. Or the future. Depends on how you look at it. 
Popular culture embraced Cyberpunk. We got films like Blade Runner and tabletop RPGs like Cyberpunk and Shadowrun. These games saw plucky teams of street rebels take on the shadowy corporations that ruled the future of those settings. The title we are covering tonight lets you step into the role of a megacorp, or the hackers that are taking them on. It came from the mind of Richard Garfield, who only 3 years earlier had defined a genre and upset an industry with a little game called Magic: The Gathering. Put on your mirrorshades and jack in as we take a dive into Netrunner. 
Show Links
 
Below are links to the games and anything else that the team mention during the course of the cast.  We will be linking to BGG for games, designers, artists, and publishers as that is a good place to start for raw information about the game in question.
 
Games Mentioned
 
Magic: The Gathering
Disney Lorcana
Star Wars Unlimited
Austin Powers CCG
Sim City CCG
V:TES
Android
Android: Infiltration
New Angeles 
Call of Cthulhu LCG
Lord of the Rings LCG
Game of Thrones LCG
Star Wars LCG
Omen: Reign of War
 
Other Mentions
 
jinteki.net
Null Signal
The Peripheral
Snow Crash
Bladerunner 2049
Netrunnerdb
Hearthstone
 
Team Links
 
Websites you can find the cast on
There Will Be Games
 
Iain
The Giant Brain
Twitter
 
Matt
Twitter
 
Nate
Twitter
Instagram
 
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