* In R. Talsorian's follow up to Cyberpunk 2020, Cybergeneration, one of the player archetype Yo-Gangs was called the " Arcorunner ".

Video games, board games, and tabletop role-playing games, such as Cyberpunk 2020 ( created by Mike Pondsmith ) and Shadowrun, often feature storylines that are heavily influenced by cyberpunk writing and movies.

** Cyberpunk 2020

Cyberpunk 2020 is a cyberpunk role-playing game written by Mike Pondsmith and published by R. Talsorian Games.

Cyberpunk 2020 is the second edition of the original game, Cyberpunk 2013, often just called " Cyberpunk.

The basic rules system of Cyberpunk 2020 ( called the Interlock System ) is skill-based instead of level-based, with players being awarded points to be spent on their skill sets.

Cyberpunk 2020 claims to lend itself to play in the street level, dark film noir genre, but certain aspects of the basic system can influence game sessions toward a high body-count, 1980s action movie style.

Because Cyberpunk 2020 is skill-based, the choice of skills around the class-specific special ability allows a wide range of character development choices including non-combatants.

Cyberpunk 2020, as the name implies, takes place in the year 2020.

The Cyberpunk 2020 equivalent of character classes are Roles, of which the main rulebook contains 9, and later supplements have expanded the number considerably.

* List of Cyberpunk 2020 books

The game is based heavily on the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game published by R. Talsorian Games, but also draws additional flavor from the broader cyberpunk genre.

CyberGeneration is a follow-up to the R. Talsorian's Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game.

It is set in the year 2027, 7 years after the events in Cyberpunk 2020.

The sourcebook describes them as wiser, more experienced and, ultimately rebels-without-a-cause no more ( CyberGeneration offers the rules to convert old Cyberpunk 2020 characters into adults for the CyberGeneration setting ).

To oppose this oppressive dictatorship, several major " Edgerunner " non-player characters from Cyberpunk 2020 run the Eden Cabal, a revolutionary movement that seeks to overthrow the ISA and BuReloc.

* The eurodollar is also a fictional currency used worldwide in the setting of Cyberpunk 2020

* Cyberpunk 2020, upon which the Netrunner card game is based

Their titles include the Cyberpunk 2020 series and for anime-related titles such as Dragonball Z.

Products include Cyberpunk 2020 ; Mekton Zeta, an anime RPG ; Castle Falkenstein, a Sorcery and Steampunk RPG ; Teenagers from Outer Space, an anime universal setting, the first generic anime RPG until the creation of Big Eyes, Small Mouth using the Tri-Stat system ; and several RPGS based around anime Bubblegum Crisis, Armored Trooper Votoms and Dragonball Z.

Founded in 1985, R. Talsorian Games was one of the first RPG publishers to embrace desktop publishing, its first desktop published books were Mekton II in 1987, which looked much different from products that R. Tal would be putting out just a few years later ( such as Cyberpunk 2020 ( 1989 )).

CyberGeneration was originally published as a supplement for Cyberpunk, but later re-released as a fully featured game in its own right under the title CyberGeneration Revolution 2. 0.

* GURPS Cyberpunk ( role-playing supplement )

Cyberpunk is also featured prominently in anime, Akira and Ghost in the Shell being among the most notable.

* Robo-Punks: rules for running Cyberpunk adventures, including brief systems for cybernetic implants and net-running.

Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller generally follows the conventional gameplay rules of point-and-click adventures, though with a particular focus on solving codes.

Cyberpunk is a postmodern science fiction genre noted for its focus on " high tech and low life.

Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation or Frank Herbert's Dune.

Cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson credits the film as an influence on his novel Neuromancer.

Muuss is mentioned in two books, The Cuckoo's Egg ( ISBN 0-7434-1146-3 ) and Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier ( ISBN 0-684-81862-0 ), for his role in tracking down crackers.

Cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling discussed the affair in his non-fiction book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier.

*" Venus ", a track on Billy Idol's 1993 album Cyberpunk

* Cyberpunk genre ( and Post-cyberpunk ) is frequently centered on the transitional inter-periods between Type-0 and Type-I status.

While frequently focused on how the concepts of " Transhumanism " and " Singularity " will eventually overcome the problems that have, up until now, been endemic to human nature, Cyberpunk subverts this to describe the Dystopian side about should a civilization " self-destruct " in the process achieving Type-I status.

* Official GURPS Cyberpunk page on the SJ Games website

Bethke's collected thoughts on the cyberpunk subculture are collected on his website, in an essay entitled " The Etymology of Cyberpunk ".

Despite its " major " lines being on hiatus during that period, RTG still supported three licensed anime RPG lines ( Bubblegum Crisis, Armored Trooper VOTOMS and Dragonball Z ) through its ANimechaniX label and occasionally issued reprints for Mekton Z and Cyberpunk 2020.

They started publishing games on their own, releasing licensed Cyberpunk 2020 supplements and two Mekton books in the early 1990s.

* Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier ( with John Markoff ) ( Simon & Schuster, 1991 ) ISBN 0-684-81862-0

* Mekton II ( 1987 )-converted Mekton to run on the Interlock System, later used in Cyberpunk 2020.

Their artistic videos draw on influences ranging from Cyberpunk through George Lucas ' THX 1138 to Zen Buddhism.

In addition to information on setting design and genre handling, Ex Machina also includes four complete game settings for gamers to choose from, each of which takes the Cyberpunk genre in its own unique direction.

Gunman Chronicles, taking place at an unknown time in the distant future, contains many themes, most notably the design focuses on Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Futuristic and Western.