Cyberspace

Cyberspace is a near-future cyberpunk role-playing game published by Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) in 1989 using a revised set of rules from their previously published Space Master role-playing game. Description Cyberspace is a role-playing game that uses the cyberpunk atmosphere engendered in the science fiction novels of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and Walter John Williams. The primary setting is a dystopian urban sprawl around San Francisco in the year 2090 in a world that that is controlled by powerful "MegaCorps". Players choose from a variety of occupations including: Jockey, primarily a pilot and of almost any aircraft or vehicle, also jack-of-all-trades Killer, a combat specialist Net Junkie or Net Head, a computer hacker Sleaze, a specialist in social skills Tech Rat, technical wizard Publication history In 1985, I.C.E. published the complex science-fiction role-playing game Space Master and subsequently released several adventures for it. Tod Foley, who worked on some of the adventures, developed a cyberpunk science fiction role-playing game with the help of Terry Amthor, Kevin Barrett, Coleman Charlton, and Leo LaDell. The game, Cyberspace, set in a grim and morally bankrupt future, was published as a 208-page softcover book in 1989 with cover art by Rick Vietch and interior art by Angela Bostick, Dell Harris, Rick Lowry, and Karl Martin.