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 […]
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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
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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
The Curse of Monkey Island (PC, 1997) – Review – A Very Pretty Curse Indeed Read Post »