PC

Is Ambush at Sorinor an unsung milestone of asymmetric warfare or simply the oddest poultry-powered fantasy skirmisher ever to hobble off a 3.5-inch floppy? (Both, obviously, why else would I still be quoting its manual in 2025?) Released in 1993 by Mindcraft, the game lets six squabbling clans, ninety-plus unit types and an unsettling number of “war chickens” […]

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 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

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

Is Veil of Darkness baffling pulp or straight-laced classic? Spoiler: it dresses in both outfits, velvet cloak draped over surplus flight jacket, and waltzes into your DOSBox installation with a grin that says, “Yes, I know my UI looks like a Victorian curio shop, fight me.” Under-rated or over-rated? Absolutely, in the same way garlic can be both a super-food