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Is Gateway 2: Homeworld the brilliant sci-fi banquet everyone forgot to RSVP to, or the crusty Tupperware lingering in interactive fiction’s communal fridge (complete with a passive-aggressive sticky note: “DO NOT microwave, Heechee radiation hazard!”)? Does it deserve an honored seat at the high table of early-’90 s adventure design, or is it wobbling atop an IKEA footstool […]

Is Strike Commander a bizarre one-off or a straight-laced classic? (Trick question: it’s somehow both, wearing a leather flight jacket over a three-piece business suit.) Is it chronically underrated or secretly overrated?, Yes, in alternate frames of the same animation. And is it essential or eminently skippable in an era when your Steam library bulges

Is Return to Zork a bizarre detour or a textbook classic? (Trick question: it’s a pork barrel full of both, equal parts vintage Infocom whimsy and early-’90s multimedia hubris, like strapping a jet engine to a typewriter just to ask, “Paper jam?”) Underrated or overrated?, Yes, simultaneously, depending on whether your first encounter came via a free AOL demo

Is X-Wing the stuffy flight simulator that just happens to wear a Jedi robe, or is it a full-throttle power fantasy that cannon-balls straight through the Death Star exhaust port? (Don’t play coy, we already know the correct answer is “yes to both… and crank the John Williams to 11.”) When LucasArts unleashed the game on DOS in

We already know Sierra adventures thrived on equal parts whimsy, logic, and the company’s gleeful willingness to pancake you for clicking one wrong pixel (don’t play coy, you’ve watched Graham crumple after sampling porridge that was “a tad too hot”). King’s Quest VI takes that old-school cruelty and wraps it in story-book grandeur: a Disney-adjacent prince marooned in