Shadowrun Promo - A Blast From the Past

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Talk about a blast from the past. I recently came across a copy of FASA's 1990 Shadowrun Promo video. I never realized that FASA had ever done anything like this. In some ways it is much better than the current WotC ads for the "Red Box".

It features everything I'd expect from Shadowrun, and all with that old school late 80s amateur look to the sets. I was impressed by the fact that they actually did have some 3D animation in the video, but, as expected, it was very low polygons (just a few boxes with very few textures or shaders to their surfaces). Amusingly, a second video is recommended from it that is a person's trailer for his own Bug City campaign.

Obviously newer, this one looks like a mixture of unique video segments spliced with either anime or hollywood movie scenes to help fill the gaps.