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.

Shadowrun is a science fantasy role-playing game set in a near-future fictional universe in which cybernetics, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist.

The Shadowrun role-playing game has spawned Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game, four video games, an action figure game ( Shadowrun Duels ), two magazines, an art book and more than 50 novels, starting with the Secrets of Power series which introduces some of the original characters of Shadowrun and gives a good introduction to this fictional universe.

Four video games have been developed based on the Shadowrun franchise ; the first in 1993 was an action role-playing game titled Shadowrun and developed by Beam Software ) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

As the publishers of the Shadowrun role-playing game stated at the time of the video game's release: " Microsoft rewrote the timeline and setting for this game, so it is not in continuity with the tabletop RPG.

In 2012, Weisman's company Harebrained Schemes launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of Shadowrun Returns, a 2D turn-based single player role-playing video game.

Jan Wagner's Cliffhanger Productions also ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for Shadowrun Online, a 3D turn-based online role-playing video game that can be played either alone or with other players.

* Earthdawn-A role-playing game set in the same world as Shadowrun but many thousands of years in the past.

* The table top role-playing game, Shadowrun, introduced AR into its game world.

Aztlán has been used as the name of speculative fictional future states that emerge in the southwest US or Mexico after the central US government suffers collapse or major setback ; examples appear in such works as the novels Warday ( 1984 ), by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka ; The Peace War ( 1984 ), by Vernor Vinge ; The House of the Scorpion ( 2002 ), by Nancy Farmer ; and World War Z ( 2006 ), by Max Brooks ; as well as the role-playing game Shadowrun ( 1989 ).

An anthology of stories based on the Shadowrun role-playing game.

Fiction with a dystopian future setting often portrays deadly futuristic games as popular sports entertainment, including the movie The Running Man, video games such as Smash TV and the Twisted Metal series, and the role-playing game Shadowrun, which features Urban Brawl and Combat Biking

Another early use of the term was in the pen and paper role-playing game Shadowrun ( 1989 ).

* It is often used as a type of enemy creature in games such as Star Ocean and the Shadowrun role-playing game.

Low fantasy exists in role-playing games such as Shadowrun, Hârn, Seventh Sea, and the products of many d20 manufacturers like White Wolf and Skirmisher Publishing LLC.

* In the role-playing game Shadowrun, San Onofre is destroyed by an earthquake in the year 2028 and sealed similarly to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

* In the role-playing game Shadowrun, essence is a measure of a living being's lifeforce

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* A Sasquatch infected with the HMHVV-II virus in the Shadowrun role-playing game

* The game Shadowrun ( 2007 video game ) mentions, as one of its important world events, the construction of RNA's Santos Corporate Arcology.

* The game Shadowrun ( SEGA MD video game ) includes Renraku Arcology as an in-game location.

WizKids itself produced an unsuccessful collectible action figure game based on the property, called Shadowrun Duels.

Unlike in a purely cyberpunk game, in the Shadowrun world, magic exists and has " worked " since 2011.

The Shadowrun game mechanics are based entirely on a 6-sided dice system.

The third game was an interactive fiction adventure game developed by Japanese company Group SNE in 1995 for the Sega CD, again titled Shadowrun.

A fourth game, titled Shadowrun: Assassin, was planned to be released in 1998 by FASA Interactive for the PC, but was cancelled.

Subsequent collectible action figure games have included WizKids ' Shadowrun, Toy Biz's Marvel Legends Showdown, and Hasbro's XEVOZ and Attacktix games.

They have developed a knack for staying alive, and prospering, in the world of Shadowrun.

In Shadowrun 4th edition, the Matrix rules have changed, thanks to the setting's constant evolution and a drive to match real world technological developments.

During his trial Boyd stated he was playing Shadowrun, specifically the role of criminal elf Buho, at the time and may have " blurred reality and fantasy ".

As of June 2012, a total of 55 projects have participated in the initiative, such as Shadowrun Returns and Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded.

In 2010, Shadowrun – 20th Anniversary Edition won three silver Ennie Awards: Best Interior Art, Best Production Values and Best Game.

Arcologies also appear in video games, such as SimCity 2000, Escape Velocity Nova, Deus Ex: Invisible War, Call to Power II, Shadowrun, and Mass Effect.

* In the RPG Shadowrun, a number of hyperstructures such as the " Renraku Arcology " exist by 2050, most of which are mega-corporate controlled.

The setting of Earthdawn is the same world as Shadowrun ( i. e. a fictionalized version of Earth ), but takes place millennia earlier.

Such immortal Elves feature in many cross-pollinated storylines with Shadowrun.

Noteworthy lines included BattleTech and Shadowrun.

For example, in Shadowrun, a tactical nuclear device was detonated near FASA's offices at 1026 W. Van Buren St in Chicago, Illinois.

The BattleTech and Shadowrun properties were sold to WizKids, who in turn licensed their publication to FanPro LLC and then to Catalyst Game Labs.

On December 6, 2007, FASA founder Jordan Weisman announced that his new venture, Smith & Tinker, had licensed the electronic gaming rights to MechWarrior, Shadowrun, and Crimson Skies from Microsoft.

Since 2004 ( when the RPGA discontinued Virtual Seattle ) Shadowrun Missions ( SRM ) has offered fans a “ living campaign ” that allows for persistent character advancement.