RELEASE June 6, 1993 DEVELOPER Bullfrog Productions PUBLISHER Electronic Arts LINK gog.com
Syndicate is a game that stirs strong feelings within me, and the realisation that it’s now 30 years old plunged me into a pit of nostalgia for my teenage years.
I’ve owned Syndicate four times, and played it on three different platforms. Three were on PC, the game coming as a selection of floppies in a big black box with a bright green sheath around it, then a CD-ROM in a small green cardboard case, then as a download in its Syndicate Plus incarnation. Only the last one still works. I also played it on the Amiga 500, and later the PSP port of the Super Nintendo conversion as part of the dreadful EA Replay disc. It’s a game that’s most at home on PC, however, as even in 1993 the MS-DOS version was better than those seen on the Amiga and Atari ST.
For the sake of clarity, we’re talking about the Bullfrog cyberpunk tactics game. Not the 2012 Starbreeze FPS of the same name whose main character, Miles Kilo, sounds like the’s Brian Cox as a CEO who prefers to dish out trauma ballistically rather than generationally.
