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Does Worlds of Legend: Son of the Empire belong in the CRPG pantheon, or is it that eccentric cousin who turns up at genre reunions wearing a silk changshan and juggling shuriken nobody ordered? (Rhetorical question; self-answer: yes, on both counts.) Published by Mindscape in 1993, the game is simultaneously conservative, tile-based, isometric, mouse-optional, and gloriously bonkers, cramming Yueh-themed […]

Is Star Trek: Judgment Rites one of gaming’s great lost tribbles or just another styrofoam boulder flung at the Enterprise crew by an under-caffeinated Interplay designer? (Spoiler: it’s both, depending on which side of the neutral zone you’re standing.) I’ve met people who will fist-pump like Kirk after an overdramatic neck chop whenever you mention this 1993

Is Might and Magic: Darkside of Xeen a bizarre oddball or a straight‑laced classic—underrated gem or rose‑tinted relic—essential milestone or skippable footnote? (Why not all three? My answer is a resounding “yes, with extra Fireballs.”) Released in 1993, New World Computing’s fifth entry slammed a full‑sized sequel onto the back of Clouds of Xeen, then whispered, “Combine us

Is Pirates! Gold bizarro or classical, undersold or over‑hyped, essential or expendable? (Short answer: yes. Long answer: also yes, but with extra rum.) Picture 1993 me, flannel shirt, acoustic‑grunge mixtape looping in the background, squinting at a 14‑inch CRT that weighed more than an actual cannon. I had installed Pirates! Gold off six 3.5‑inch disks that chirped like panicked seagulls. “Is this just