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What was your very first introduction to cyberpunk?
| I think it was when I played Chrono Trigger for the first time, specially the moment the characters go to the future.
At first I was wondering why the future was depicted as garbage, but as I grew up I got it, specially after reading some books and taking Economy and Biology classes.
| Va-11 Hall-A actually.
Came for the music,
stayed for the mundane life in a sci-fi setting,
left with the germ of an ongoing thirst for everything cyberpunk.
| I'm not entirely sure. I think I had seen a little of (on YouTube) or heard about some cyberpunk stuff (games, shows, movies, books) before that, and I remember reading the first like 100 pages or something of Red Rising a while ago, but that was before I really knew what it was. What got me more interested in it and what made me realize what cyberpunk really was, was Shadowrun and Va-11 Hall-A.
| pretty sure it was hotline miami. nothing close to cyberpunk, but it introduced me to synthwave. i moved on to more grimy(?), high-tech low-life stuff when the hype for synth died out.
i fell in love with the aesthetics at some point idk. pretty sure it was after watching akira
| Va-11 Hall-a as well
| Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex
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| Hard to tell- it could have been my older sibling's Shadowrun II source books, it could have been Ghost in the Shell, hell, it could have even been RoboCop.
I'm in my late twenties and I'm only just now realizing how many of my favorite fictions were cyberpunkish.
| There first... Dont actually remember. Maybe Ghost in there shell movie, Maybe Gibson's boiks
| It was more then 20 years ago
| It's either the Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex, or Aeon Flux. Or maybe RoboCop, I was very young, so I really don't remember.
| The first Blade Runner
I didn't really like it when I was a child but my big bro really loved it so I kinda started liking it due to his enthusiasm (I liked the visuals though)
Nowadays I think the sequel is such a godlike film
| Blame! Manga. It is probably a more extreme version of cyberpunk but I love it
| The Fifth Element. Parents showed it to me as a kid and I fell in love with the aesthetic of the movie without even realizing what it was. Just a good fucking movie too.
| Is Logan's Run cyberpunk? Proto-cyberpunk?
| How about Captain Scarlet?
| Cybercity OEDO808
| Vallhalla was my exposure.
| For me i found out about it through just random art sites when I stumbled across some cyberpunk themed artworks interested me enough to learn of the setting but I never really cared for it till I learned of shadowrun
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| I used to watch MTV's Liquid TV when I was very little, about 5 years old or so.
I ended up watching The Running Man, a twenty minute animation from a movie called NeoTokyo.
Need less to say I was agasp from it, mesmerized. It was the first time I saw something like it.
It would take me at least 13 years before I found out what it really was. In the end, it is now my favorite piece of Post Dystopian/Cyberpunk short animations.
It also fueled a desire for anti-grav racers,
| Va-11 Hall-A for me. I had bought a Humble Bundle and it was included. As a joke, I played the "lol anime waifu visual novel," and really enjoyed myself.
| For me it was Eden of the East, followed by the Blame! manga (which I really didn't read much of) and then Hotline Miami. The real tipping point was ValHalla, and I started going crazy for the genre and binged GiTS and watched the Akira movie.
| It was either The Matrix or Snatcher
| I think it was watching Bubblegum Crisis as a kid, jesus, what an experience. Since them I began to love crime stories with crazy androids and robots.
| My dad used to have all the matrix movies along with animatrix and one of the videogames, so i basically grew up with it. I remember I used to watch matrix reloaded on a daily basis
| Idk
| It's gotta be all those ultra violent sifi movies that were super popular in the 80s, not that I was ,like, alive during those times. But yeah robocop, aliens, total recall, starship troopers, demolition man etc. Etc.
| Later in my life anime definitely started getting me more into it, specifically lain. I loved the way tech looked in lain.
| I was interested in cyberpunk themes but the first true cyberpunk story I read was Gibson's Sprawl trilogy
| The Hunger Games
| Linux was my introduction to cyberpunk. Everyone around me used Windows and MacOS, when I found linux and found reasons to use it. I got obsessed with security and privacy and hate for those that are trying to take it away from me
| Ruiner, VA-11 Hall-A was next.
| Actually my very first introduction to cyberpunk was real life itself. Ever since I graduated from high school (2012) I've been amazed at how smartphones and information technology itself has been advancing at such a rapid rate. I've always asked myself, what if it got TOO advanced and what if groups of people such as large corporations starting misusing it? Then I found out there's a subgenre of science fiction that resembles this modern tech life and it's called Cyberpunk.
| Armitage III. But I was too young to understand any of it so I'd say DE:HR was first
| The Deus Ex franchise introduced me to cyberpunk. Later on, I got into Ghost In The Shell, and VA-11 HALL-A, and now I'm really pumped for the new Cyberpunk 2077 that's being revealed this year.
| For me it was probably Blade Runner, I had read the book ant watched the movie out of curiosity, and even though I prefer the book, the aesthetic struck me as awesome.
| Really dunno. Lain gits matrix (wut) blade runner books it all counts but im pretty sure I knew of the genre since long before I even stated watching and reading stuff.
Actually im quite surprised people in the thread say things like vallhalla and shadowrun. Don't mean your age, but it's really weir to not get to know such a basic genre before playing/reading them
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PS what defines the genre for me is ofc gits (the movie). Matrix isn't really cyberpunk and lain is mostly about psychology and some other crazy sh
| >>256781
Also cyber punk is basically outdated, take no offense, I love it too, it's just that the future turned out to not be the uncontrollable high tech low life shit that people imagined it to be during 90s.
Now it's all about post-cyberpunk. Funny enough, as dull and shallow as it may be, Raildex is a good example of the genre.
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| Ghost in the Shell (the first one) got me into cyberpunk. But even before the I just liked the aesthetic.
| >>256791.....when we are able to connect to the net via our brains like we so vr and we use robots/androids like we do cellphones today ill agree with your comment good sir... We still have a bit to go before were living in gits or neuromancer...and whos to say quality of life wont turn to shit when we reach that point.
| I watched I, Robot when I was a kid and I think that was my first exposure. Eventually I played Deus Ex: HR and kept seeing cyberpunk art all over the internet. It kinda grew from there.
| The website vampire freaks
| I've always been into sci-fi and in particular technology-based stuff because I've been into Transformers since I was a kid. warring alien robots from a dead planet? what could be better. I always loved the episodes set on Cybertron which basically is an ecumenopolis where it's always dark.
from there I got into other sci-fi stuff, the Matrix probably being one of the earliest cause I saw that when it came out on video and I was about 10.
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| I was born in jan of 1989, the same year the world wide web was born to the public..i grew alongside the tech and was fascinated of our potential future and what innovations and tech was to come...my first true introduction was burning chrome, after discussing the future in 5th grade a friend lent me the book....from there i craved more...ill never forget how intrigued i was, obviously neuromancer was next...from there...i began to watch what was fiction...slowly become a reality..