What happens when King’s Quest and Prince of Persia share a bottle of bargain-bin mead, scribble a D-list fantasy script on a tavern napkin, and decide to go spelunking together? You get Armaëth: The Lost Kingdom, part point-and-click, part side-scroll hop-’n-slash, 100 percent “wait, did that bear just steal my honey?” Released on DOS in 1993 by Real World Software […]

Every so often a game barrels down history’s tracks like an un-braked steel coaster, rattling the zeitgeist while hurling our collective lunch into the shrubbery below. RollerCoaster Tycoon is exactly that brand of software ride: a seemingly wholesome park simulator that secretly teaches you advanced civil engineering, pop-economics, and the dark art of path-based crowd control

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