Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is the sort of game that makes me feel like Interplay found a very expensive starship bridge in a pawn shop, dragged it into the office, and then said, with admirable confidence, “Right, now let’s build a simulator around the feeling of being assigned homework by Spock.” On paper, that is […]
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What Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II really is, at least in the original 1997 Windows PC version I care about here, is the moment LucasArts looked at its own shooter lineage and decided the series needed a spine. Not just more blaster fire, not just another corridor full of angry men with bad
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I have a soft spot for games that arrive carrying the weight of a whole marketing constellation on their shoulders, then have the nerve to be playable anyway. Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire on PC is exactly that sort of creature, a 1997 Windows port of the 1996 Nintendo 64 original, dressed up with
I went into Marble Master, better known as Swing, expecting a quaint little puzzle relic from 1997, the sort of PC oddity that survives because a few people remember it fondly and everyone else has mistaken its title for something else. What I found was something more interesting and more aggravating: a puzzle game with
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Take No Prisoners, in its original 1997 PC Windows form, is exactly the sort of game I used to circle in import magazines with a pen, then spend the next six months arguing about in my head. Not because it is elegant, or even because it is especially polished, but because it has that very
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