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Marble Drop (PC, 1997) – Review – A Maxis Contraption That Knows Exactly One Joke

Marble Drop, the 1997 Windows puzzle game from Maxis South, is the sort of odd little CD-ROM artifact that makes me fondly suspicious of the entire late-90s PC ecosystem. Somebody at Maxis looked at a screen full of funnels, tracks, springs, cannons, and color-coded bins and decided, yes, this is enough of a fantasy. Not […]

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NBA Live 98 (PC, 1997) – Review – When EA Found a Fast Break and Kept Dribbling Into the Camera

NBA Live 98 on PC is the kind of sports game that makes me nostalgic for the era when a publisher could say, with a straight face and a giant laminated grin, “Here is basketball, now in 3D,” and half the audience would nod because, honestly, it did feel like a revelation for about five

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NCAA Football 98 (PC, 1997) – Review – The Windows Gridiron That Forgot to Be a Dynasty

The first thing to understand about NCAA Football 98 is that it is not the game most people mean when they say NCAA Football 98. That honor usually goes to the PlayStation version, the one with the cleaner paper trail and the louder afterlife. This review is about the PC game, the 1997 Windows build,

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Need for Speed II (PC, 1997) – Review – The Great Exotic Speed Trap

Need for Speed II, at least the original 1997 Windows version, is what happens when a racing game falls in love with a showroom and forgets to make the driveway forgiving. It is a glossy, aggressively aspirational machine, a sequel that swaps out the first game’s rougher identity for something more decorative, more international, and,

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