GAME · 1997

Blade Runner

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8 Interesting Facts About Blade Runner

1. #002

   The subplot, which depicts two police departments operating in the same town with no knowledge of each other, each believing itself to be the legal police force, and McCoy being caught by the one he does not work for, is taken directly from "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?", the novel on which the film Blade Runner (1982) is based, but there is no trace of this plotline in the film.

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2. #003

   Rutger Hauer was planned to appear as Roy Batty, but the scene was cut.

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3. #004

   The game premiered for Windows PCs in two different formats: a four-disc CD-ROM version and a single-disc DVD-ROM version. Players had to swap discs periodically while playing the CD-ROM version.

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4. #005

   On December 12, 2019, the game was re-released on the digital video game distributor GOG.com. This was made possible by ScummVM developers who had reverse-engineered the game's engine over eight years.

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5. #006

   The story includes a character named Runciter, the owner of a pet shop. In 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', the original novel on which the film Blade Runner is based, written by Philip K. Dick, there is also a man with the same name and the same profession.

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6. #007

   The message Clovis leaves on McCoy's answering machine is a quotation from "A Poison Tree", a poem by William Blake.

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7. #008

   The name Runciter comes from another Philip K. Dick novel, "Ubik", which, along with "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," the basis for Blade Runner, is included in the Library of America's "Philip K Dick: Four Novels of The 1960's".

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8. #009

   During Act Three, one of the arcade games in Hysteria Hall is Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996), another game developed by the now-defunct Westwood Studios.

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