Deus Ex's official desktop wallpapers were so perfectly 1999

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While writing a post about the Deus Ex randomiser mod last month, I tried to find a high-resolution clean version of the venerated immersive sim’s box art to use as a header image. I trawled through archives of official sites hoping to discover that the marketing department had released it as a wallpaper or something, to no avail. But I did find a load of other official Deus Ex wallpapers which are so delightfully turn-of-the-millenium. Scanlines! Lensflare! Photoshop Difference Clouds filters! Come, admire, enjoy.

I had assumed it would be easy to find an official version of the box artwork without any logos or owt. Surely publishers Eidos would have released that iconic image as a desktop wallpaper! I trawled through preserved archives of the game’s website, and Eidos’s website, and several international Eidos FTP servers (all taken down years ago), but if they had made it a wallpaper, I couldn’t find it. I did find some official Deus Ex wallpapers, mind, which were delightful for other reasons. They were released in 1999 and 2000 and oh, it shows. Enjoy!