Tagged: 1999

Screenshot from 3Xtreme. Six racers, including a combination of BMX riders, roller skaters, and skateboarders, are riding down a curving seaside road at early sunset.

3Xtreme PlayStation categoryRacing categorySports category

Back when extreme sports were hitting the mainstream, 989 Studios’ 3Xtreme tried to cram multiple extreme sports into a single game.

Screenshot from BHunter

BHunter Action categoryShooter category

If you’ve ever wanted to pilot a flying car, BHunter is excellent wish fulfillment. Its shoddy world-building may not hold interest past that.

Screenshot from Biosys

Biosys Adventure categorySimulation category

Biosys is an environmental simulation in the form of an adventure game, a bold combination that stretches both parts.

Screenshot from The Book of Watermarks. A profile view of Prospero is super-imposed with an illustration of a human skull.

The Book of Watermarks Adventure categoryPlayStation category

Produced late in the PlayStation’s lifecycle, Sony’s is like a new-age album come to life — an ethereal, awkward fantasia of Mediterranean islands and puzzle boxes.

Screenshot from Extreme Rock Climbing

Extreme Rock Climbing Sports category

What could a rock climbing game look like? Extreme Rock Climbing has some clever ideas – and plenty of sponsorship from PowerBar®.

Screenshot from Imagynasium

Imagynasium Educational categorySoftware category

Unlike so many other digital art studios for kids, Imagynasium‘s playfully limited collage world wants to figure out what drives you to the creative process and how to keep you there.

Screenshot from MindGym

MindGym Multimedia categoryOther categorySoftware category

This unique, stunning surrealist self-help guide gets arrogant when it uses the strengths of the multimedia CD-ROM format to make players examine how they think.

Screenshot from Pandora's Box

Pandora’s Box Puzzle category

Designed by Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov, Microsoft’s globe-trotting puzzle game is restless with its own possibilities. What could a visual puzzle game be like?

Screenshot from Star Wars Pit Droids!

Star Wars: Pit Droids Puzzle category

Lucas Learning put together a decent Chu Chu Rocket-like game, dampening the inherent unlikeability of a Episode I tie-in game for kids.

Screenshot from Tlön: A Misty Story

Tlön: A Misty Story Adventure category

In the absence of a compelling story, character, direction, or gameplay idea, Tlön shares none of the unreal intrigue of the short story that inspired it apart from perhaps its art.

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