BLOCKOUT

BLOCKOUT is a dystopian cyberpunk setting featuring the self-proclaimed "information specialist" Jack. The story revolves around a disk, its contents, and the forces that want to acquire it for their own ends.

Several well-known cyberpunk conventions are present, including corporate citizenship, cybernetics and hacking. The ostensible protagonist is a freelance hacker (or jockey) whose colleagues include an illicit hardware creator and a cybernetically-enhanced former corporate soldier.

The game takes place in and around a region simply called "the city". While it is likely set in an area known as post-America, several other locations are mentioned. Jack receives his payment for the Easter Seals job from Yuji in the form of Eastern Canada dollars (aka Frankbucks), BB's ultralight is said to have been used by snipers against water poachers in Greater Arizona, and Jack reminisces about his childhood spent rerouting phone lines from residential numbers to Internal Security for the Nation of Florida. In TECHNIC, the sequel to BLOCKOUT, Jack meets with (and kills) four smugglers from the New American Republic.