At 12:40 AM 5/11/98 -0400, Jason Liao wrote:

On Sun, 10 May 1998, Maercutio wrote:

Thirdly, I still believe my views have merit. The whole particle-beam
satellite thing is definitly NOT standard cyberpunk fare, and I intend to
stand by that. Furthermore, the female guest star (Esther) is still VERY

close

to Priss IMHO, the standard cyberpunk charcahter template notwithstanding.

Actually, out of curiosity, anybody know which came first, BGC or Iczer-3? 
I believe that there were particle beam sats in the second episode of I-3,
though they weren't featured as promently as in BGC.  I'm kind of curious
as to which series featured these weapons first... 

Iczer-3 was from 1991.  BGC began release in 1986, and was in
pre-production in the '84-85 timeframe.  (Bladerunner, which the BGC
producers have publicly acknowledged the influence of, was in 1982)



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