.. is a subgenre of SF in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife & high tech". Unlike traditional SF, cyberpunk focuses on the side-effects of the drug of futurism: evil corporation, pollution, inequality, corruption sustained by amazing tech and gizmos.The genre spans across many mediums:<ul><li>Books (Neuromancer or Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?)</li><li>Movies (Blade Runner, Robocop, Total Recall)</li><li>Anime (Akira, Ghost in the Shell)</li><li>Computer games (Shadowrun, Syndicate)</li><li>Comics (Judge Dredd)</li></ul>

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Let’s take a journey back to the 1980’s and beyond, to discover the origins of the Cyberpunk movement, in literature, cinema, television, video games, comics and more! In this documentary miniseries, we will discover the wonders of Cyberpunk, dating back to the 1940’s, all the way through 1989, with each successive episode taking on a new decade. Co-written by Shalashaskka https://www.youtube.com/c/Shalashaskka 0:00:00 - Intro 0:02:19 - The Origins of Cyberpunk 0:04:14 - Proto-Punk 0:04:58 - Philip K. Dick 0:05:30 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 0:06:25 - Colossus: The Forbin Project 0:07:03 - Westworld 0:08:53 - The Long Tomorrow, Métal Hurlant 0:09:21 - 2000 AD, Judge Dredd 0:09:51 - Early authors, origin of the term "cyberpunk" 0:11:09 - Future Noir 0:11:25 - Blade Runner 0:18:49 - Syd Mead 0:19:55 - TRON 0:20:55 - Neuromancer 0:24:55 - Going Mainstream 0:25:20 - Cyberpunk tabletop game 0:26:07 - Shadowrun 0:29:08 - WarGames 0:29:28 - Trancers 0:29:56 - The Terminator 0:31:02 - Blade Runner, the game 0:32:04 - Max Headroom 0:33:55 - RoboCop 0:36:22 - RoboCop, the game 0:36:45 - The Running Man 0:37:38 - Bubblegum Crisis 0:38:10 - Akira 0:39:07 - Interactive media 0:39:21 - Snatcher 0:41:50 - Neuromancer, the game 0:43:52 - Cyberpunk literary symposium — MUSIC CREDITS Full credits here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wvUtqMCH2mFuK4wi-jnoo7-08rx5t7-xdcQjQpWWKTQ/ Intro: 'Insomniac' by Matt Large https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCRjagL6rhU Credits & title card music: 'Synthwave' by DjDocent https://audiojungle.net/item/medical/21117062 Outro: ‘Flight Path’ by Kuedo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrpwMPshWpw Stock music licensed through www.EpidemicSound.com — FOOTAGE CREDITS B.A.T. footage by ankokumen | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAe8z5-MR9A Neuromancer cyberspace gameplay by Crowley9 | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCirKbPmlwMDPvIYiJmetRsA Snatcher footage by GoggleBoxFairy | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrmEaL6i1Jc RoboCop MAME footage by bubufufu and Si0r: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxjZ0UA21ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPXH86yh6cI Blade Runner, Tron art by Syd Mead: http://sydmead.com/ Neuromancer 3D artwork rendition by Rafael Moco: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ZLR5X Circuit’s Edge gameplay by MDCore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=titfH1NxjZ4 — SOURCES Gardner Dozois https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1984/12/30/science-fiction-in-the-eighties/526c3a06-f123-4668-9127-33e33f57e313/ Gibson on Shadowrun https://web.archive.org/web/20070627074200/http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/98-3/issue7/gibson.html http://williamgibsonblog.blogspot.com/2003_05_01_archive.html Shadowrun | https://shadowrun.fandom.com/ Blade Runner convention | https://youtu.be/1ZVW8Zn5fSM Nuyen in Neuromancer | https://books.google.com/books?id=1pyFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=neuromancer+nuyen “Cyberpunk” term origin | https://books.google.com/books?id=5ER26ZJkc30C&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=cyberpunk+bethke+1983+dozois#v=onepage&q=cyberpunk%20bethke%201983%20dozois&f=false The Future of Human-Machine Communications: The Turing Test | https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/the-future-of-human-machine-communications-the-turing-test/ Post-humanism and ecocide | http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/post-humanism_and_ecocide.html How I Wrote Neuromancer | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/26/william-gibson-neuromancer-book-club Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - WW2 influences | https://galaxypress.com/inspired-philip-k-dick/ Making of Blade Runner | https://youtu.be/ZPluJUQGHrg “Cyberpunks” by Timothy Leary | https://urbigenous.net/library/cyberpunks.html Equilibrium’s cyberpunk themes | https://static.anarchivism.org/cyberpunkreview-archive/www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/2000-2009/equilibrium/index.html Street Samurai Blog: http://street-samurai.blogspot.com William Gibson early writing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Early_writing_and_the_evolution_of_cyberpunk William Gibson interview (1991) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVBCWFlgaXc&ab_channel=FreqOut The Long Tomorrow, Metal Hurlant’s influence to cyberpunk media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tomorrow_(comics) William Gibson's Neuromancer and Science Fiction http://mason.gmu.edu/~rutledge/neuromancer.htm Defining Cyberpunk http://mason.gmu.edu/~rutledge/neur_cyberpdefn.htm The Cyberpunk Project http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/index.html Cyberpunk Historical Timeline http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/timeline.html — DONATIONS ► https://www.patreon.com/IndigoGaming DISCORD CHAT ► https://discord.gg/j98gDah LIVESTREAMS ► https://www.youtube.com/c/IndigoGamingArchive TWITTER ► https://twitter.com/TheIndigoGaming TWITCH ► http://www.twitch.tv/indigogamingchannel FACEBOOK ► https://www.facebook.com/IndigoGamingChannel/ #cyberpunk #documentary #BladeRunner

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Let's take a journey back to the 1980's to discover the origins of the Cyberpunk movement in Blade Runner and Neuromancer, in literature, cinema, television, video games, comics and more! In this 1st episode of the documentary miniseries, we will discover the wonders of Cyberpunk, dating back to the 1940's, all the way through 1989.

Additional writing by Cult of the Cyber // Skull
https://www.youtube.com/c/CultoftheCyberSkull

0:00:00 - Intro
0:02:19 - The Origins of Cyberpunk
0:04:14 - Proto-Punk
0:04:58 - Philip K. Dick
0:05:30 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
0:06:25 - Colossus: The Forbin Project
0:07:03 - Westworld
0:08:53 - The Long Tomorrow, Métal Hurlant
0:09:21 - 2000 AD, Judge Dredd
0:09:51 - Early authors, origin of the term "cyberpunk"
0:11:09 - Future Noir
0:11:25 - Blade Runner
0:18:49 - Syd Mead
0:19:55 - TRON
0:20:55 - Neuromancer
0:24:55 - Going Mainstream 
0:25:20 - Cyberpunk tabletop game
0:26:07 - Shadowrun
0:29:08 - WarGames
0:29:28 - Trancers
0:29:56 - The Terminator
0:31:02 - Blade Runner, the game
0:32:04 - Max Headroom
0:33:55 - RoboCop
0:36:22 - RoboCop, the game
0:36:45 - The Running Man
0:37:38 - Bubblegum Crisis
0:38:10 - Akira
0:39:07 - Interactive media
0:39:21 - Snatcher
0:41:50 - Neuromancer, the game
0:43:52 - Cyberpunk literary symposium

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MUSIC CREDITS

Full credits here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wvUtqMCH2mFuK4wi-jnoo7-08rx5t7-xdcQjQpWWKTQ/

Intro: 'Insomniac' by Matt Large
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCRjagL6rhU

Credits & title card music: 'Synthwave' by DjDocent
https://audiojungle.net/item/medical/21117062

Outro: 'Flight Path' by Kuedo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrpwMPshWpw

Stock music licensed through www.EpidemicSound.com

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FOOTAGE CREDITS

B.A.T. footage by ankokumen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAe8z5-MR9A

Neuromancer cyberspace gameplay by Crowley9
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCirKbPmlwMDPvIYiJmetRsA

Snatcher footage by GoggleBoxFairy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrmEaL6i1Jc

RoboCop MAME footage by bubufufu and Si0r
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxjZ0UA21ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPXH86yh6cI

Blade Runner, Tron art by Syd Mead
http://sydmead.com/

Neuromancer 3D artwork rendition by Rafael Moco
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ZLR5X

Circuit's Edge gameplay by MDCore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=titfH1NxjZ4

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SOURCES

Gardner Dozois
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1984/12/30/science-fiction-in-the-eighties/526c3a06-f123-4668-9127-33e33f57e313/

Shadowrun
https://web.archive.org/web/20070627074200/http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/98-3/issue7/gibson.html
https://shadowrun.fandom.com/

Blade Runner convention | https://youtu.be/1ZVW8Zn5fSM

Nuyen in Neuromancer | https://books.google.com/books?id=1pyFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=neuromancer+nuyen

"Cyberpunk" term origin | https://books.google.com/books?id=5ER26ZJkc30C&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=cyberpunk+bethke+1983+dozois#v=onepage&q=cyberpunk%20bethke%201983%20dozois&f=false

The Future of Human-Machine Communications: The Turing Test | https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/the-future-of-human-machine-communications-the-turing-test/

Post-humanism and ecocide | http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/post-humanism_and_ecocide.html

How I Wrote Neuromancer | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/26/william-gibson-neuromancer-book-club

Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - WW2 influences | https://galaxypress.com/inspired-philip-k-dick/

Making of Blade Runner | https://youtu.be/ZPluJUQGHrg

"Cyberpunks" by Timothy Leary | https://urbigenous.net/library/cyberpunks.html

Equilibrium's cyberpunk themes | https://static.anarchivism.org/cyberpunkreview-archive/www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/2000-2009/equilibrium/index.html

Street Samurai Blog:
http://street-samurai.blogspot.com

William Gibson early writing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Early_writing_and_the_evolution_of_cyberpunk

William Gibson interview (1991) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVBCWFlgaXc&ab_channel=FreqOut

The Long Tomorrow, Metal Hurlant's influence to cyberpunk media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tomorrow_(comics)

William Gibson's Neuromancer and Science Fiction
http://mason.gmu.edu/~rutledge/neuromancer.htm

Defining Cyberpunk
http://mason.gmu.edu/~rutledge/neur_cyberpdefn.htm

The Cyberpunk Project
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/index.html

Cyberpunk Historical Timeline
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/timeline.html

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