Blade Runner is probably best remembered as the 1982 cult classic from Ridley Scot, in which Harrison Ford played a grim detective in a dark and lonely futuristic Los Angeles in between his portrayals of Han Solo and Indiana Jones.

It's a movie I've enjoyed on many levels down through the years. I've obviously enjoyed watching it, and the soundtrack has made me a lifelong fan of the Greek composer Vangelis, probably best known as the man behind the Chariots of Fire theme.

Blade Runner is also largely responsible for making me an adventure gamer. The 1997 game adaptation of the film, which had an interwoven but substantially different storyline to the movie, is one of the few games which I will consider digging back through my mountains of old games to play.

It was only after playing Blade Runner that I was prompted to go back to earlier adventure game efforts such as Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle which today hold pride of place as the golden boys of a now largely stagnant genre.

The world of Blade Runner, the game as well as the film, was an entirely dark and myopic view of the future, and even though I've enjoyed many adventure games besides it I've never quite been able to recreate the same experience as I had playing Blade Runner.