Little Big Adventure 2 is one of those late-’90s PC adventures that looks, from a safe distance, like a charming oddity and, up close, like a charming oddity that was absolutely determined to make you work for it. It is a bright, story-driven 3D action-adventure about Twinsen wandering through a world that keeps escalating from […]

Lords of Magic, the 1997 Windows PC original from Impressions Games and Sierra, is one of those strategy games that arrives with the solemn confidence of a parchment map and then immediately starts acting like the whole continent is one bad decision away from collapse. Its selling point is not subtle: Urak, eight faiths, a

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

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