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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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At least two additional games were planned, but they were spiked when Microsoft bought Access in 1998 and sold it to Take Two Interactive. Take Two eventually shut down Access, apparently killing the Tex Murphy franchise. However, the original developers have since formed Big Finish Games, acquired the rights to the series, and teased fans with the announcement of "Secret Project Fedora". After years of speculation they finally confirmed that Fedora is indeed a new ''Tex Murphy'' game, scheduled for release in late 2012. There's currently a [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251414413/tex-murphy-project-fedora Kickstarter project] in place to help raise preorder funds for it.
In the meantime, you can get the ''Tex Murphy'' games at [https://web.archive.org/web/20121114103717/http://www.gog.com/en/catalogue#all_genres/search/access%20software/ GOG.com].
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* [[Shapeshifter Swan Song]]: The end of ''Under a Killing Moon''.
* [[Shout-Out]]: A trenchcoat-wearing detective in a dystopian, near-future city in California, with monolithic buildings and flying cars? [[Blade Runner|This seems familiar...]]
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: An unusual case where this is delivered ''retroactively'': in ''Overseer'', once Tex is done telling the story in flashbacks, he comments how the game's [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] "was probably right". Chelsea's response: "[[
* [[Time Bomb]]: In ''Overseer'', Tex must remove an implant from his skull before it kills him. Of course, the plot requires that you remove it anyway (the entire game is a flashback, after all) so there's no danger of Tex dying permanently.
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]: The cryo tank puzzle at the end of ''Under a Killing Moon'' is this. In a hilarious subversion, Tex will complain to the Great PI In The Sky during the [[Have a Nice Death]] sequence how unfair it is, and then receive a second chance without needing to reload a save game.
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