Reviews

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 […]

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

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,

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