Go back to a time when a 56k modem made you a god among geeks with Neuromancer

Every week, Richard Cobbett rolls the dice to bring you an obscure slice of gaming history, from lost gems to weapons grade atrocities. This week, William Gibson's pioneering cyberpunk novel, now in adventure/RPG hybrid form. And wow, is it a weird little historical artefact.

The future's always been a tough thing to predict, but does generally go one of three basic routes—dystopia, utopia, everything turned into sentient cheese by deep space super-bacteria. Oh, that tiresome old cliché.