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System Shock

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Game Information

Original Release Date: September 22, 1994

Platforms: DOS, Mac

Involved Companies: Looking Glass Studios, Origin Systems

Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG)

Summary: A seminal cyberpunk first-person exploratory adventure game with RPG elements in which, waking up in the Citadel Space Station, a lone hacker has to survive corrupted enemies and collect audio logs and equipment from former station workers in order to shut down SHODAN, the station's artificial intelligence that has killed everyone on board and now intends to destroy the world.

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This work is part of CSCI E-114, Web Application Development with Jamstack, Harvard Extension School. All video game data was obtained from The Internet Game Database (IGDB).