https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59q4q3/what-to-play-read-and-watch-while-you-wait-for-cyberpunk-2077-release-date > Cyberpunk 2077 sounds like an amazing video game but we have no idea when it’s coming out. Luckily for you, Cyberpunk 2077 is building on a decades-long tradition of cyberpunk tropes, which started all the way back with William Gibson’s Neuromancer. There are a ton of amazing cyberpunk books, movies, and video games ready for your hungry eyes. From the foundational to the obscure, here’s some of the best cyberpunk things you can brush up on and distract yourself with until Cyberpunk 2077 comes out. > The Cyberpunk genre started with the written word and crept out of the imagination of writers such as William S. Burroughs and JG Ballard. But it was codified in the 1980s and became its own world when William Gibson published Neuromancer in 1984.