Machine Hunter is one of those 1997 shooters that looks, at first glance, like it was assembled in a lab where somebody had just finished playing Loaded, staring at the ceiling, and muttering, “But what if the robots were also the weapons?” Which, to be fair, is a pretty decent pitch. On the original Windows […]
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I have a weakness for games that look like they were built by people who wanted to prove something to the world and maybe settle a private grudge with genre convention. MageSlayer, the 1997 Windows action game from Raven Software, fits that bill beautifully and a little tragically. It is a top-down dungeon brawler in
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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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
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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