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 […]

I have a soft spot for games that arrive carrying the weight of a whole marketing constellation on their shoulders, then have the nerve to be playable anyway. Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire on PC is exactly that sort of creature, a 1997 Windows port of the 1996 Nintendo 64 original, dressed up with

I went into Marble Master, better known as Swing, expecting a quaint little puzzle relic from 1997, the sort of PC oddity that survives because a few people remember it fondly and everyone else has mistaken its title for something else. What I found was something more interesting and more aggravating: a puzzle game with

Take No Prisoners, in its original 1997 PC Windows form, is exactly the sort of game I used to circle in import magazines with a pen, then spend the next six months arguing about in my head. Not because it is elegant, or even because it is especially polished, but because it has that very