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Picture the year 2000: the Y2K hang-over still throbs, Gladiator quotes are taped to dorm doors, and every publisher wants its own 3-D RPG epic, no one quite knows which ingredients made BioWare’s soup taste so good, but everyone is ready to copy the recipe. Into this scrum vaults Summoner, Volition’s maiden voyage beyond space shooters: a game that […]

What happens when a Victorian-era gumshoe crashes a Christmas soirée hosted by undead rum-running pirates and automatons dressed like Al Capone’s stunt doubles? If your answer is, “Probably an E. C. Comics one-shot,” you get partial credit. To earn full marks you need Infogrames’ Alone in the Dark 2, the 1993 sequel (North-American boxes carry a

How do you turn a melodramatic space-opera, complete with fur-suit villains, orchestra-swell cliff-hangers, and the kind of cockpit banter that belongs in a daytime soap, into a homework assignment? Easy: you strip out the plot, yank the FMV, and hand players a cosmic Scantron they fill with laser fire. That, in a burnt-gunpowder nutshell, is

Picture 1993: flannel shirts are a legally recognized personality trait, Jurassic Park is redefining “summer blockbuster,” and my mother still thinks a gigabyte is an exotic fish. Into that neon-lit swamp of pop culture drops Wing Commander: Privateer, materializing like a battered tramp freighter jumping in with its shields flickering and a cargo hold full of “agricultural supplies”

What happens when King’s Quest and Prince of Persia share a bottle of bargain-bin mead, scribble a D-list fantasy script on a tavern napkin, and decide to go spelunking together? You get Armaëth: The Lost Kingdom, part point-and-click, part side-scroll hop-’n-slash, 100 percent “wait, did that bear just steal my honey?” Released on DOS in 1993 by Real World Software