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. […]

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,

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