Development
Following the release of their 3D flight game Echelon, Access wanted to develop another 3D flight game, this time based on the story of a homemade movie that the developers had made in their spare time about a film noir detective. Eventually, adventure elements eclipsed the flight sim aspects, leading to the genre-straddling game as it ultimately was.
Mean Streets is one of the first PC games to feature 256-color VGA graphics, at a time when VGA cards were not commonplace. It was also one of the first games to incorporate Access Software's patented RealSound technology in the PC gaming. This technique uses the PC speaker to generate high-quality digitized sounds such as speech, music, and sound effects without the use of additional hardware.
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