A big screen adaptation was planned, and set for a summer 1996 release, and set to star Soleil Moon Frye. Frye even made a guest appearance on the Jenny Jones show to promote the planned adaptation but the plans fell through.
When Tex Murphy looks at the Golden Gate Hotel located at the far end of Chandler Avenue, he paraphrases the following line from the 1979 song "Heart Hotel" by Dan Fogelberg: "Its halls are still study and the walls have worn well, but there is nobody living inside".