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.
Knight Moves
Co-opting chess moves is a bit of a silly basis for a whole game. Knight Movies definitely makes a go of it though.
Music Highlight: ClockWerx 
The anonymously titled “Song H” meets the tone and pace of ClockWerx – and really all puzzle games – with aplomb.
Robot City
Robot City is a gripping, scary, unforgettable sci-fi murder mystery saddled a tedious and unfair open world.
SimTower: The Vertical Empire
Leave it to an outsider to develop a surprisingly personal take on the simulation sandbox genre – and one of the stronger entries in the Sim series.
The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain 
The third game in the Dr. Brain series is quite fun because of its multi-subject education – not in spite of it.