Lords of Magic, the 1997 Windows PC original from Impressions Games and Sierra, is one of those strategy games that arrives with the solemn confidence of a parchment map and then immediately starts acting like the whole continent is one bad decision away from collapse. Its selling point is not subtle: Urak, eight faiths, a […]

Machine Hunter is one of those 1997 shooters that looks, at first glance, like it was assembled in a lab where somebody had just finished playing Loaded, staring at the ceiling, and muttering, “But what if the robots were also the weapons?” Which, to be fair, is a pretty decent pitch. On the original Windows

I have a weakness for games that look like they were built by people who wanted to prove something to the world and maybe settle a private grudge with genre convention. MageSlayer, the 1997 Windows action game from Raven Software, fits that bill beautifully and a little tragically. It is a top-down dungeon brawler in

Moto Racer is one of those mid-90s racing games that arrives looking like a dare and playing like a compromise. It wants to sell you speed, dirt, chrome, and the pleasingly juvenile thrill of a motorcycle doing something it absolutely should not be doing at that velocity. On the PC, in its original 1997 Delphine