Moto Racer is one of those mid-90s racing games that arrives looking like a dare and playing like a compromise. It wants to sell you speed, dirt, chrome, and the pleasingly juvenile thrill of a motorcycle doing something it absolutely should not be doing at that velocity. On the PC, in its original 1997 Delphine […]

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

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,

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,

NetStorm: Islands At War is what happens when an RTS refuses to behave like an RTS and, instead of apologizing, doubles down with floating islands, bridge-building, priest-snatching, and the sort of tactical cruelty that makes you wonder whether somebody at Titanic Entertainment had been quietly collecting grudges against ordinary real-time strategy conventions. This is the