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Under a Killing Moon: The Official Strategy Guide
Under a Killing Moon is the first truly interactive movie. As Tex Murphy, P.I., players investigate the seedy underworld of the near future, post World War III San Francisco. This "official" guide show players how to solve perplexing mysteries. It includes a game overview--with hundreds of movie stills--and detailed descriptions of every aspect of this CD-ROM interactive movie.
272 pages, Paperback
First published December 5, 1994
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October 31, 2025
Subject: URGENT: 31-Year-Old Refund Demand
HEY TEX MURPHY DETECTIVES!!! Picture this: It’s 1994. I’m 12, wearing a trench coat made from my dad’s old bathrobe, and I’ve just hitchhiked 40 miles to the B. Dalton Bookseller in the next county. (Took three rides: a suspicious ice-cream truck, a guy hauling mutant chickens, and a hover-train I stowed away on by clinging to the undercarriage like a radioactive possum.) with $19.95 in crumpled lawn-mowing cash (including $4.50 in couch quarters and one suspiciously sticky nickel), I bought the Under a Killing Moon Official Strategy Guide.
The back cover ROARED in bold red: “CONTAINS COMPLETE WALKTHROUGHS OF MEAN STREETS AND MARTIAN MEMORANDUM!”
I thought I’d scored the TEX MURPHY TRILOGY OMNIBUS OF DOOM.
31 YEARS LATER, in 2025, I finally removed the sacred shrinkwrap (with a ceremonial butter knife and a single tear), only to find:
NO MEAN STREETS.
NO MARTIAN MEMORANDUM.
NOT EVEN A “SORRY, KID” COUPON for 25¢ off a pack of unfiltered Llamas.
I demand:
Full 1998 refund: $19.95
A handwritten apology from Rick Barba, delivered by Chris Jones in full Tex regalia, on a hover-scooter made of recycled CD-ROMs
One (1) lifetime supply of DIGITAL PEA SOUP — the glowing green kind served at the Brew & Stew, now in downloadable .SOUP format for VR consumption
A public confession in the next GOG patch notes, in Comic Sans
My Tamagotchi graveyard exhumed and given a proper funeral (those poor digital pets starved waiting for me to finish UAKM)
I’ve already contacted the Post-Apocalyptic Consumer Protection Agency, the Mutant District Attorney, and the ghost of Colonel Pritchard (he still doesn’t smile).
WHO’S WITH ME IN THIS 31-YEAR QUEST FOR JUSTICE?!
#PrimaGate1994
#WhereIsMyDigitalPeaSoup
HEY TEX MURPHY DETECTIVES!!! Picture this: It’s 1994. I’m 12, wearing a trench coat made from my dad’s old bathrobe, and I’ve just hitchhiked 40 miles to the B. Dalton Bookseller in the next county. (Took three rides: a suspicious ice-cream truck, a guy hauling mutant chickens, and a hover-train I stowed away on by clinging to the undercarriage like a radioactive possum.) with $19.95 in crumpled lawn-mowing cash (including $4.50 in couch quarters and one suspiciously sticky nickel), I bought the Under a Killing Moon Official Strategy Guide.
The back cover ROARED in bold red: “CONTAINS COMPLETE WALKTHROUGHS OF MEAN STREETS AND MARTIAN MEMORANDUM!”
I thought I’d scored the TEX MURPHY TRILOGY OMNIBUS OF DOOM.
31 YEARS LATER, in 2025, I finally removed the sacred shrinkwrap (with a ceremonial butter knife and a single tear), only to find:
NO MEAN STREETS.
NO MARTIAN MEMORANDUM.
NOT EVEN A “SORRY, KID” COUPON for 25¢ off a pack of unfiltered Llamas.
I demand:
Full 1998 refund: $19.95
A handwritten apology from Rick Barba, delivered by Chris Jones in full Tex regalia, on a hover-scooter made of recycled CD-ROMs
One (1) lifetime supply of DIGITAL PEA SOUP — the glowing green kind served at the Brew & Stew, now in downloadable .SOUP format for VR consumption
A public confession in the next GOG patch notes, in Comic Sans
My Tamagotchi graveyard exhumed and given a proper funeral (those poor digital pets starved waiting for me to finish UAKM)
I’ve already contacted the Post-Apocalyptic Consumer Protection Agency, the Mutant District Attorney, and the ghost of Colonel Pritchard (he still doesn’t smile).
WHO’S WITH ME IN THIS 31-YEAR QUEST FOR JUSTICE?!
#PrimaGate1994
#WhereIsMyDigitalPeaSoup
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