Mean Streets (1989) Introduction in BEAR-O-VISION™ (MS-DOS) (4K)
5Bear drive flying car in Mean Streets. City dark, humans mean, mystery deep like cave at night. Talk to people, ask questions, sometimes shoot bad ones. Game part flying, part thinking—like bear with claws and big brain. World look rough, sound tough. Bear feel like detective in leather trenchcoat… but still furry.
Mean Streets, released in 1989 by Access Software, is a gritty cyberpunk detective adventure that introduced players to Tex Murphy, a down-on-his-luck private investigator in a dystopian 2033 San Francisco. Blending elements of film noir and sci-fi, the game combines first-person flight and driving simulation with side-scrolling adventure segments and interrogation-based investigation. Using Access’s then-groundbreaking RealSound technology, Mean Streets delivered digitized voices and atmospheric audio without the need for a sound card. Players gather clues, bribe informants, and piece together a conspiracy surrounding the death of a prominent scientist. As the first entry in the Tex Murphy series, it set the tone for the franchise’s unique blend of humor, narrative depth, and futuristic sleuthing.
What is BEAR-O-VISION™?
It's the visual quality standard preferred by bears, specifically rendered in VGA per-pixel at 4K resolution. It's among the highest quality output available for old games at the time of publish.
Dosbox output is OpenGL
Scaler is Normal3x
GLshader is crt-fakelottes-flat