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

Is Might and Magic: Darkside of Xeen a bizarre oddball or a straight‑laced classic—underrated gem or rose‑tinted relic—essential milestone or skippable footnote? (Why not all three? My answer is a resounding “yes, with extra Fireballs.”) Released in 1993, New World Computing’s fifth entry slammed a full‑sized sequel onto the back of Clouds of Xeen, then whispered, “Combine us