Dare to Dream (1993): Cliff Bleszinski’s Teenage Adventure Game, Free to Play
Before Cliff Bleszinski became a household name in game design circles for Unreal and Gears of War, he was a […]
Overkill (1992): Epic MegaGames’ Free Six-Planet Shmup
Long before Epic MegaGames became the company behind Unreal and, much later, Fortnite, it was just another shareware publisher trying
Adventures of Robbo (1993): Poland’s Favorite Robot, Free to Download
Some game legacies never quite cross borders the way they deserve to. Robbo, the small robot at the center of
Electro Man (1992): A Free DOS Platformer Built Around Teleporters
The early-90s shareware scene was flooded with side-scrolling platformers trying to out-Keen Commander Keen, and most of them leaned on
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe (1991) Review: The Bitmap Brothers’ Violent Sports Classic
Take away the ball for a second and Speedball 2 is basically hockey played inside a steel cage where body-checking
IndyCar Racing (1993): Papyrus’s First Step Toward Sim Racing Greatness
If you’ve ever spent hours tuning suspension and gearing in a racing simulator, you owe part of that habit to
Test Drive III: The Passion (1990): Early Exotic-Car Racing on DOS
Before racing games could reliably render a closed track convincingly, Test Drive III: The Passion was already trying something more
Rise of the Robots (1994): All Style, Mixed Substance
Few games in the mid-90s were hyped as hard as Rise of the Robots. Acclaim’s marketing push around its pre-rendered
Primal Rage (1995): When Claymation Dinosaurs Ruled Fighting Games
1995 was crowded with fighting games chasing the Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat formula with yet another cast of
Street Fighter II (1992): How Capcom’s Arcade Hit Struggled Onto DOS
Every home port of Street Fighter II tells you something about the hardware it landed on, and the 1992 MS-DOS
History
The Games That Killed DOS: Windows 95, DirectX, and the End of an Era
DOS gaming didn’t end with a single dramatic event. It ended over roughly two years, as a new operating system
Realms of the Haunting (1997): Gremlin’s FMV/3D Horror Hybrid
Picture a mid-90s FMV adventure and a mid-90s 3D shooter as two separate aisles in a software store. Gremlin Interactive’s