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In 1989, Access Software developed and published ''Mean Streets'', a noir adventure thriller for several different platforms. The game starred Tex Murphy, who represented the epitome of an old-fashioned, black-and-white noir private detective.
Access would go on to make five games: the sequel to ''Mean Streets'', ''Martian Memorandum'' (1991), was released strictly for the IBM PC and was not terribly revolutionary. The third game ''Under a Killing Moon'' (1994) was a whole different ball game: it introduced a 3D virtual world and made extensive use of full motion video cutscenes. The fourth game ''The Pandora Directive'' (1996) included the same system and was Access' most ambitious effort. Number five, ''Overseer'' (1998), was essentially a replay of ''Mean Streets'', but brought into the modern video game era with Access' usual movie work.
Tex Murphy's setting is a post-apocalyptic America after [[World War III]]. Tex, a gritty [[Private Detective]] who lives in San Francisco, is genetically resistant to the effects of radiation but lives amongst numerous mutants. He tries to tiptoe along the dangerous fault lines between the world of the mutants and the world of the "norms".
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