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lightcastle ([personal profile] lightcastle) wrote2010-01-11 12:47 am
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Gaming origin of Mythpunk

Anyone know the original game origin of the term "mythpunk"? I am quite curious now.
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[personal profile] tablesaw 2010-01-11 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably Shadowrun, as it incorporated lots of urban fantasy elements. But back in the nineties, everyone was content to call it cyberpunk, even though it had elves and magic in it.
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[personal profile] lightcastle 2010-01-11 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Would have been my first guess, although I don't recall the term being used back in first edition.
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[personal profile] tablesaw 2010-01-11 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you want actual citations? That's different.

I think you'd be more interested in this thread. [livejournal.com profile] locke61dv created "MythPunk NOW!" because he thought 'mythpunk' was "a cool meme [he could] googledominate." He then linked to it on the Forge, which would have been the source of most of the Google hits in 2006. It doesn't look like it ever really had much of a meaning attached to it other than a brand attempt.
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[personal profile] tablesaw 2010-01-11 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Forgot this: Internet Archive of MythPunk NOW! with a date of 1/3/2004, which is the current earliest citation. There might be something earlier in the Forge Archives, but I'm not sure.
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[personal profile] lightcastle 2010-01-11 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
So maybe it's just a Forge reference. I can see that.
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