BailOutBob 
BailOutBob can’t and shouldn’t support the hodge-podge of ideas thrown into its prison escape conceit.
Tagged: 1995
BailOutBob
Bal Ru’s Curse
An evil god inhabits this challenging puzzle game and, frustratingly, messes with its formula out of total spite.
Cooking with Windows recap 
We made recipes from CD-ROM cookbooks. Here are our thoughts about them and their (mostly terrific) food.
Defcon 5 
Combining first-person shooters and strategic simulation around a specific location is a brilliant concept. Defcon 5 implements it in an extremely flawed way, though enough that you can see what works.
Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou 
Osamu Sato’s magnum opus is unequivocally the strangest game ever made. Behind its madness, you’ll find a metaphorical tale of rebirth and self-actualization. I love that something like this was made.
Grizzly 
The wildly erratic, bizarre fighting game Grizzly is too much and all over the place – uncomfortably intense while trying to be silly.
Imagination Express 
Edmark’s storytelling program uses believable, educational settings – which is perfect for making creative mischief.
Knight Moves
Chess moves are a bit of a silly basis for a whole game. Knight Movies definitely makes a go of it though.
Liquid War 5 
From the bones of the strategy genre comes this liquid-y war game where fighting is about filling up the right spaces.
Music Highlight: ClockWerx 
The anonymously titled “Song H” meets the tone and pace of ClockWerx – and really all puzzle games – with aplomb.