Mean Streets

I haven't played this in years. I remember it had awesome digitised animations, but I couldn't work out what to do in the game.

Surprised this game only has a handful of vote. The screenshots don't do it justice.

Best news I've heard in a while is that there will be a Kickstarter for this on May 15, 2012 and if they make their goal, hopefully the series will continue. It has been too long since we've seen a Tex Murphy game.

This game was remade in 2011 as L. A. Noire. Interrogations. Crime scene investigation. Open world driving to the next location. Occasional gun battles. It's all here.

Absolutely great game and great introduction to Tex Murphy adventures. Pacing was great, making the game never boring. Simulation part was a bit slow, but if recall correctly, you could speed up the time once you typed in destination?

The first Tex Murphing adventure is here! I simply can't forget the hours spent on this one. It managed to hook me for several days until the end. Ok, it's plain and quite easy, but the development of the story, the clues which come one by one... A great game. And I bought it by mistake. How lucky I was!

I remember playing this game and finishing it on the old C64. It had a lot of great concepts but the C64 wasn't quite up to the challenge. The flight sim probably did about a frame per second, even with hardly anything on the horizon. The puzzle solving/adventuring elements weren't as deep as something like Maniac Mansion, but there was some nice information gathering and a good storyline. Oddly, the C64 and IBM version use all digitized graphics while the Amiga and Atari ST (the best at the time) use cartoonish graphics.

Ultra cool game! It mixes things like flying cars (loved those ever since seeing Back to the Future II as a kid. ), computers, passcards, and other hightech things into a tradinational dectective story, and comes off really well.

Of course the C64 graphics pale to the VGA 256 colours original, but the story line is still cool and there aren't many games like this for the C64.

Dun dun dun dun dundundundundun dun dun dun dun dundundun!

Oh sorry--you caught me humming the theme song. A friend of mine and I are known to break out into a spontaneous humming of the Mean Streets theme.

Amazing game considering the time and the platform--even if it did have a SEVERE hard on for Bladerunner.

An awesome game! I remember staying home from college one day and my brother, who went to high school, asked that I wait until he got home before we started playing. I didn't, and finished the game in about six hours. Boy, was he steamed! This is a game that can still stand up to the likes of Driver, it was that good and groundbreaking.

This game blew me away then and still does now. One of the best adventures ever made for C64 (and th followups were all great in their own right too). The red sky set an atmosphere over everything. Interrogatioions and explorations were awesome, although earl, you're right the arcade and flight sim parts were not needed. I couldn't resist flying around the city just to explore. If you haven't played it, try to get a copy!

First in a line of now 5 Tex Murphy adventures, Mean Streets is a classic detective story, set in 21st century San Francisco. In spite of unnecessary "flight sim" and arcade sequences, Access really started something great with this one.