Is Pirates! Gold bizarro or classical, undersold or over‑hyped, essential or expendable? (Short answer: yes. Long answer: also yes, but with extra rum.) Picture 1993 me, flannel shirt, acoustic‑grunge mixtape looping in the background, squinting at a 14‑inch CRT that weighed more than an actual cannon. I had installed Pirates! Gold off six 3.5‑inch disks that chirped like panicked seagulls. “Is this just […]

Is The Legacy: Realm of Terror the creaky floorboard that time forgot or the missing vertebra in survival-horror’s spine? (Rhetorical, sure, but I’m contractually obligated to answer, so stand by.) Dropped onto DOS shelves in March 1993 by MicroProse, yes, the flight-sim and hex-map people, this first-person RPG straps you into a Beacon Hill mansion where Lovecraftian ichor seeps beneath

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”