Circuit’s Edge

Year: 1990 (some site’s also list 1989, but based on this site it was distributed in 1990)

Publisher: Infocom

Developer: Westwood Associates

Country: USA

Genre: Interactive fiction, role-playing

Platform: PC

Circuit’s Edge is a PC game loosely based on the novel When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger, who also wrote the game script. The player-character is detective Marîd Audra and the game is set in a fictional Middle-Eastern city, in a cyber-punk, dystopic future.

LGBTQ references in this game:

Sexuality and gender in Circuit’s Edge

Citations:

  1. Circuit’s Edge. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%27s_Edge
  2. Circuit’s Edge (DOS). (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.mobygames.com/game/circuits-edge
  3. Circuit’s Edge. (2015, April 22). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/circuits_edge
  4. Kalata, K. (2011, May 23). Circuit’s Edge. Hardcore Gaming 101. http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/circuitsedge/circuitsedge.htm
  5. Scorpia. (1990, July). Scorpion’s Tale: Circuit’s Edge. Computer Gaming World. P. 10. http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_73.pdf
  6. When Gravity Fails. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Gravity_Fails
  7. ZenicReverie. (2013, December 23). Guest Game 1: Circuit’s Edge- Introduction. The Adventure Gamer. http://advgamer.blogspot.com/2013/12/guest-game-1-circuits-edge-introduction.html