Shadow Warrior, in its original 1997 PC form, is what happens when a studio looks at the post-Duke Nukem 3D landscape, grins like it has a fresh pack of fireworks in its jacket, and decides subtlety is for accountants. This is a Build engine first-person shooter from 3D Realms, the sort of game that arrives […]
SEGA Worldwide Soccer ’97 is the kind of football game that arrives wearing a shiny arcade jacket and then, halfway through the first match, quietly admits it has a limp. On paper, that sounds like a deal breaker. In motion, it is more complicated, and more interesting, than the usual retro sports memory lane nonsense.
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Star Trek: Generations is the kind of licensed game that makes me want to salute the ambition, then immediately ask whether anyone in charge had actually played a first-person shooter in 1997. The PC version, released by MicroProse in May 1997, is not content to be merely a movie tie-in. It lurches toward something stranger,
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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is the sort of game that makes me feel like Interplay found a very expensive starship bridge in a pawn shop, dragged it into the office, and then said, with admirable confidence, “Right, now let’s build a simulator around the feeling of being assigned homework by Spock.” On paper, that is
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What Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II really is, at least in the original 1997 Windows PC version I care about here, is the moment LucasArts looked at its own shooter lineage and decided the series needed a spine. Not just more blaster fire, not just another corridor full of angry men with bad
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