Reviews

NFL Blitz is the kind of football game that arrives wearing shoulder pads over a leather jacket, cracking its knuckles at simulation, and daring anyone to call the cops. The version I can responsibly talk about here is the PC release that followed the game’s 1997 arcade life, because that is what the available record […]

NHL 98 on PC is what happens when an annual sports series stops pretending that bigger numbers on the box are enough and actually tightens the screws. It is not a revolution, and thank heaven for that, because revolutions in late-90s PC sports games usually meant somebody had discovered a new way to make the

If you want a polite hockey game, this is not your stop. NHL Open Ice: 2 On 2 Challenge is what happens when Midway looks at the sport and decides that nuance, structure, and restraint are all somebody else’s problem. The version I care about most here is the PC release tied to the 1996-1997

Panzer General II is the kind of wargame that looks, from a safe distance, like it should be cold, clinical, and a little smug about its own seriousness. Instead, it turns out to be a game about appetite, momentum, and the terrible pleasure of nudging a line of tanks, infantry, and artillery into just the

Postal, the original 1997 Windows and Mac OS release from Running with Scissors and Ripcord Games, is one of those games that arrived with a stink on it, then spent the next few years insisting that the stink was the point. And sure, in a narrow historical sense, it was. This was a top-down, isometric