Interstate ’76 – The Groovy 1970s Car Combat Classic
In 1997, Activision released a vehicular combat game built on the MechWarrior 2 engine, set in a version…
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Outlaws – LucasArts’ Western FPS That Became a Cult Classic
By 1997, the FPS genre had settled into a fairly comfortable groove. You were either id Software, pushing…
Super Skidmarks – An Amiga Classic with a Comedic Twist on Racing
Acid Software were a New Zealand developer who spent the early 90s making games for the Amiga that…
Super League Manager (1995, Amiga CD32) – A True Test for Football Management Fans
Football management games in 1995 existed on a spectrum. At one end you had Championship Manager 2, which…
Liberation: Captive 2 – An Amiga CD32 Cyberpunk Classic
Before Deus Ex arrived in 2000 and got credited with inventing the immersive sim, there were games doing…
Roadkill – A Chaotic Top-Down Shooter with a Twist of 90s Attitude
The Amiga CD32 had a complicated life. Launched in 1993 as Commodore’s attempt to take on the console…
Ripper The 90s FMV Game That Slashed Its Way Into My Cult List
Take-Two Interactive in 1996 was not yet the company that would eventually give the world Grand Theft Auto.…
Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Chair – A Hollywood Simulator Like No Other
1996 was peak CD-ROM confidence. The industry had collectively decided that Full Motion Video was the future, that…
Big Red Racing: The Chaotic Classic ’90s Racing Fun
Eleven years old, school’s out, dining room to myself, and someone had left a PC game on the…
Ecstatica: A Weird and Wonderful 90s Horror Game
There’s a specific kind of 90s PC game that only really made sense if you were there. Not…