Blade Runner was the first DVD I ever owned — not the movie, but Westwood Studios’ 1997 PC adventure game. Originally released on four CDs, the ambitious game was also bundled onto a single disc by Packard Bell as a way to demonstrate the powers of what would ultimately be our first family computer with a DVD drive.
I have no idea where that disc is today. Until yesterday, though, it would have been the only legal way I had of playing Blade Runner, a game long thought lost to time due to a combination of missing source code, tangled rights issues, dead studios, and incompatibility with modern hardware.
The new downloadable version, which just got a surprise release on GOG, weighs in at a meager 1.3GB. That’s big enough to need a DVD,...
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The resurrected Blade Runner game is a genuine classic
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December 18, 2019
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