Rating Breakdown
Challenge
15% weight
7/10
Multiplayer
8% weight
—/10
Nostalgia
11% weight
9/10
Score history
5.00 → 5.16
2026-05-05
5.16
2026-05-05
5.08
2026-05-03
5.00
Initial rating
My Take
This may or may not be a good game. I can’t really tell. It’s been thirty or more years since I played it. But it is a game that has stuck with me ever since. It’s a game made by adults mostly for adults in a world where there were no video game consoles other than a Nintendo, meant for PC in an era when they were called IBM clones, using adult themes and concepts like murder, mystery, and sexuality. It’s not a kids’ game, even though I played it as a kid. The nostalgia is real, even if the game itself might be garbage.
My Take
This may or may not be a good game. I can’t really tell. It’s been thirty or more years since I played it. But it is a game that has stuck with me ever since. It’s a game made by adults mostly for adults in a world where there were no video game consoles other than a Nintendo, meant for PC in an era when they were called IBM clones, using adult themes and concepts like murder, mystery, and sexuality. It’s not a kids’ game, even though I played it as a kid. The nostalgia is real, even if the game itself might be garbage.
About
Mean Streets is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Access Software for MS-DOS in 1989 exclusively in North America. It was ported to the Commodore 64, Atari ST, and Amiga in 1989 and 1990 by The Code Monkeys. Atari ST and Amiga ports were only released in Europe. The game, set in a dystopian cyberpunk neo-noir world, is the first in the series of Tex Murphy mysteries; its immediate sequel is Martian Memorandum. In 1998, Mean Streets was remade as Tex Murphy: Overseer.
Source: Wikipedia
Reviewed January 1, 1989 · Last updated May 5, 2026
