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RollerCoaster Tycoon (PC) – Review – How One Dev Outsold the Industry

Every so often a game barrels down history’s tracks like an un-braked steel coaster, rattling the zeitgeist while hurling our collective lunch into the shrubbery below. RollerCoaster Tycoon is exactly that brand of software ride: a seemingly wholesome park simulator that secretly teaches you advanced civil engineering, pop-economics, and the dark art of path-based crowd control […]

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World Tour Tennis (PC, 1993) – Review – Pixel Pros and Polygon Serves

Is World Tour Tennis the unsung forefather of today’s racquet sims or merely a weird late-DOS footnote you’d expect to find buried beneath shareware disks at a flea-market table? (Rhetorical question. Self-answer: both, Schrödinger’s topspin.) This 1993 EA re-issue of Distinctive Software’s 1990 4D Sports Tennis re-packages the studio’s wireframe physics engine with a beefed-up world-tour season, two broadcast

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Innocent Until Caught (PC) – Review – Tax Evasion at Lightspeed

What’s more terrifying than a Xenomorph, more relentless than a Terminator, and armed with paperwork instead of plasma rifles? Try an Interstellar Revenue Decimation Service (IRDS) auditor who gives you exactly twenty-eight galactic days to cough up a million credits in back taxes, or face vaporisation with extreme bureaucratic prejudice. Rhetorical cliff-hanger; self-owning answer: that is the central

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos – Yugi the Destiny (PC) – Review – Nostalgia Summon, No Tribute

There are cult games, and then there’s the Konami oddity that plops the Pharaoh himself onto your Windows XP desktop and dares to call it a full release. Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos – Yugi the Destiny is at once a glorified tutorial disk and a black-hole time-sink: bizarro because it gives you exactly one opponent (Yugi Muto,

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