Tanarus is one of those late-90s online games that feels less like a neat product than a dare. It is a first-person tank combat game for Windows PC, originally released in December 1997, and it arrives with all the confidence of a studio that has decided the future will forgive a lot if you put […]
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TetriNET is what happens when somebody looks at Tetris and asks a dangerous, extremely 1997 question: what if this neat little puzzle about fitting blocks together were also a small online grudge match, complete with sabotage, revenge, and the kind of social friction that makes friendships develop teeth marks? The original PC release, from St0rmCat,
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I have a soft spot for games that arrive looking like they spent their budget on charm instead of homework, but I am not so sentimental that I will excuse every joke, puzzle, or pirate flourish just because it comes wrapped in a handsome frame. The Curse of Monkey Island, the third Monkey Island game
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The Space Bar is the kind of adventure game that makes me forgive a lot of sins and then immediately demand better behavior from everybody involved. It is a 1997 Windows PC graphical adventure, released on three CDs, and it has the kind of brainy, overstuffed structure that now feels almost indecently confident: a murder
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I have a weakness for games that begin as a bad idea in the best possible sense: a couple of university students in Germany, a hobby project, a persistent world, and the audacity to think a graphical online role-playing game could exist without first asking permission from the genre gods. Tibia, in its original 1997
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