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Sid Meier’s Civilization
J Man finally publishes a review of Civ he started about two years ago.
Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back
I’m going to assume you speak English. And if you’re reading this, let me inform you that you do. Hi, literate English-speaker! Say, remember when you first discovered adventure games? (NOTE: If you haven’t, go do so. Then come back. -Ed.) Wasn’t it great? It’s all sunshine and daisies for a while. The genre was [...]
The Dark Eye
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a bland and boring FMV and 8 bit sprite, While I slobbered, scarcely sober, realized it was late October, Happy games were all “Game Over”, now for something filled with fright. ‘Here’s a title called ‘The Dark Eye’. That sounds amply filled [...]
Command & Conquer
When Command & Conquer was released, it was snarkily referred to as Dune III. This got so pervasive that Westwood even had to refute this directly in the documentation. To this day, writers of walkthroughs and forum posts still refer to C&C’s refineries as “spice factories” out of pure spite. I suppose the allegation is [...]
Reelect JFK
FAIR WARNING: There’s a bit of a story involved with this one, and not just my usual nostalgic musings and sarcastic screeds. Buckle in and try to keep up. Actually, don’t buckle in, you’ll never be able to keep up that way. As something of a geek, and a relatively young one at that, I [...]
Police Quest: SWAT
After Police Quest 4, Darryl Gates had one contribution left for Sierra. It’s called Police Quest: SWAT; even though it doesn’t have much to do with later SWAT titles, and less to do with Police Quest before it. It fittingly exists in a kind of limbo of quirky game experiments. It’s not hard to see [...]