Old PC Gaming.
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Dark Side of the Moon
Saturday, December 22, 2018
In Dark Side of the Moon, the player steps into the shoes of protagonist Jake Wright, who has inherited his uncle’s mining claim on Luna Crysta. The fact that everyone seems to believe that the claim is worthless doesn’t quite jibe with the mysterious circumstances surrounding his uncle’s death, and Jake soon discovers that there […]
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Populous 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods
Friday, December 21, 2018
The original Populous – the quintessential ‘God’ game – placed the player in command of war-mongering tribes. Populous 2 ups the ante by placing the time period into Ancient Greece, and also by increasing the number of worlds you can conquer. As in the first game, the player looks down on an isometric landscape, home […]
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Hot Wheels: Jetz
Friday, December 21, 2018
Hot Wheels: Jetz puts the player in the cockpit of one of seven available jet fighters. The mission: Save your house from the evil Bossbot who’s taken control of all of your toys! Shoot down enemy toys with a miniature jet fighter where rooms in the house are the battlegrounds and pieces of furniture are […]
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NASCAR Thunder 2003
Thursday, December 20, 2018
NASCAR Thunder was a marked improvement over the painfully bad NASCAR Revolution. The physics model, among other things, has been completely revamped here, from the handling of the vehicles to the way the car will take to the skies when conditions are right during a high speed collision. Like most respectable sims, NASCAR Thunder 2003 […]
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Euro Rally Champion
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Euro Rally Championship is pretty much bottom of the barrel rally racing, with dated graphics (2001’s Colin McRae Rally looks far more superior), uninteresting sound effects and poor sound support, gnawing loopy techno music and a bare-boned driving simulation that is outclassed by the decade-old NASCAR Racing (1994). You can drive through the barren and […]
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Task Force 1942
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Task Force 1942 recreates the naval conflicts between American and Japanese forces in Guadalcanal from August to December 1942. There are three game modes to play in this naval simulation. Historical scenarios allow players to try their hand at one of several battles around Guadalcanal. The campaign mode recreates five months of the conflict. Also, […]
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The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
At a time when most games had occupied single-digit numbers as far as MB, EA’s graphic adventure The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes took up a whopping 28 MB in disk space. Not an insignificant amount considering the average size of a hard disk at that time ranged between 500 MB to around 1 GB. […]
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Nile: Passage to Egypt
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Through an interactive journey on the felucca (Egyptian sail boat) down the Nile you explore the modern and ancient Egypt. Native board games (e.g., a cribbage-like game called Senet) give a feeling of presence in Egypt. To your destination you can sail by cursors (in 360 degree view of surrounding) or by using a map. […]
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Conquest of the New World
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Conquest of the New World is very similar to the old classic Seven Cities game, or the more modern Civilization. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on your point of view. In the game you take on the role of one of five European colonial nations or an imaginary native nation (sort […]
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Battleground Waterloo
Sunday, December 16, 2018
TalonSoft’s “Battleground” system is too well known by its niche fans of wargamers to really require much description: it permits the player to switch back and forth between miniatures and more conventional hex-grid views. And as far as these boardgame-inspired products go, Battleground: Waterloo is indeed a visual feast. It is also an expert simulation […]
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