1000 Miglia 
1000 Miglia succeeds as a capsule for an important piece of automotive history but mostly fails as a fun racing game.
Tagged: historical
1000 Miglia
Charlie Chaplin 
This loving recreation of Charlie Chaplin’s film career has a rough time translating his antics into an understandable game.
Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness 
Muriel Tramis’s slave rebellion strategy game confronts history with a cathartic rage never encountered in games – and it came out in the 80s.
Imagination Express 
Edmark’s storytelling program uses believable, educational settings – which is perfect for making creative mischief.
The Legend of Lotus Spring 
The only game from Women Wise, a company dedicated to software for women, The Legend of Lotus Spring takes you an overflowingly emotional journey of loss and remembrance.
Microsoft Dinosaurs
Microsoft Home’s Jurassic reference guide upends the digital encyclopedia model by showing the relations between articles, even if its information is out-of-date.
Muriel Tramis speaks about her career and the memory of Martinique 
In one of her first English interviews, Martinican developer Muriel Tramis talks about her career in games at Coktel Vision, the things that inspired her to make (and remake) Méwilo, and that one time she worked in the weapons industry.
Noir: A Shadowy Thriller
Noir recreates the world of a generic 1940s detective story with incredible production values and the genre’s trademark convoluted plotting.
Lionel Trains Presents: Trans-Con!
Lionel’s game about the Transcontinental Railroad is the logical follow-up to The Oregon Trail, both chronologically and in terms of how much it draws from history.
Wrath of the Gods
You have to admire the ambition and scope of an edutainment game that covers the entire pantheon of Greek legend and, weathering its constantly messy design and acting, sort of achieves its goals.