You have it backwards. The reason they are like a 90’s RPG isn’t because they are generic, it’s because Neuromancer created the genre that all of those games were set in. They took it, and tweaked bits and pieces to make themselves unique, but at their core, they were all Neuromancer.

Go. Now. Read it now. Then wonder that it was written before the Internet really got big and by a man who had little understanding of computers.

No worries! GET IT AND READ IT. Also, read Snow Crash if you haven’t already. Snow Crash completely blew my mind.

By now it might not seem as original, but reading it in the 80’s was like getting smacked in the face with the future. Amazing, amazing book. “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel...”