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Mean Streets

Trivia

The US box art bears a striking resemblance to Blade Runner's original theatrical poster.

Contributed by Sam Jeffreys (3460) on Dec 11, 2007.

There are many references to TV shows and movies in Mean Streets. For example, turn on the TV in Ron Morgon's Cabin and the sound resembles Star Trek. The robot in Cal Davis's Secret Lab is a reference to Lost In Space. The scene where you meet Larry Hammond is a spoof of a joke The Bob Newhart Show. Also, the president is called Michael J. Fox, and a final joke refers to the first Back to the Future film he starred in

The game was released in French on the Atari ST and Amiga two years after the original release.

In 1998, Access released the last Tex Murphy adventure, Overseer. It is a remake of Mean Streets.

The Mean Streets intro music is also used in a TV commercial.

(They've plagarised music in the past; see the trivia for Crime Wave for another example. --Editor)

Mean Streets was the world's first popular PC game to fully support VGA graphics. Not content to stop there, it was also the world's first PC game to also support EGA, CGA, and Hercules graphics modes with real-time quantization and dithering. (By "real-time", I'm referencing the fact that they didn't include pre-converted graphics, which would have taken up twice the disk space, but rather they converted each graphic as it was loaded to fit the graphics mode being used.) Most games that supported VGA didn't support any lower standard at all because it was considered too difficult to convert graphics utilizing 256 colors down to 16 or even 4 for EGA or CGA.