As someone who played the game back in the day, I think there were two problems with it, neither of which depended on the hardware limitations:
- The authors of the game had a lot of text that was intended to be humorous. Personally, I didn’t find it that funny, but more importantly, it conflicted with the Gibsonian atmosphere.
- The authors seemed to think that the universe of the Sprawl was a Orwellian surveillance state, with robots in meatspace saying things like “Move along, citizen”. That isn’t how cyberpunk works. Instead, the point was that governments were weak and that real power resided in corporations rather than the State.
