Is Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist the secret handshake of vintage adventure nerds… or just a dusty punchline best left on the bargain-bin shelf between Full Throttle (in its 12-diskette beta incarnation) and that Windows 3.1 golf sim your uncle swore was “just like Pebble Beach”? Short answer: yes. Longer, louder answer: Freddy is both a gloriously bizarro fever dream and a […]
Is the Super Nintendo version of Wolfenstein 3D a sanitized fever dream, like discovering your favorite slasher film has been re‑cut for Saturday‑morning TV, or a bona‑fide classic that taught console kids to love corridors? Trick question: it’s both, plus the weird cousin who shows up uninvited, hands you a chaingun, and then squeaks something about “giant albino rats.” Underrated? I
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Is Allan Border’s Cricket a proud, straight-bat classic or the weird uncle who gate-crashes every retro-sports reunion? Does it deserve a place in the Hall of Fame next to Sensible Soccer and NBA Jam, or should it be sent back to the pavilion before it’s even padded up? (Answer: both, and I’ll explain once I stop laughing at the menu
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Is Infogrames’ 1993 cosmic creeper Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet an unsung classic or a creaky footnote, a crowning jewel of VGA horror or a half-remembered fever dream you accidentally installed from a cover‑disk while looking for shareware pinball? (Answer: all of the above, plus a side order of tentacles.) In an industry year dominated
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Is Alien Breed on MS-DOS a bizarre curio or a straight-laced classic? Is it criminally underrated or mercifully forgotten? Is it foundational space-marine scripture or the footnote you skim past while sprinting toward DOOM? (Rhetorical triple-shot, my ammo counter’s already blinking red.) The short answer: yes, no, and sort of, but let me unpack that
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