Tagged: EGA

Screenshot from Alpha Waves

Alpha Waves Platform category

The abstract early 3D graphics in Alpha Waves complement its fast-paced yet meditative platform gameplay.

Title screen from Big Rig

Big Rig Simulation category

This 80s text-based game driving sim is as detailed as it is intermittently dull. That’s no coincidence.

Screenshot from Beebop

Breakout roundup Arcade category

Instead of writing a bunch of short articles about Breakout clones, here’s several of them put together! Maybe we’ll learn something more broadly about game clones by looking at them as a group.

Screenshot from Clyde's Adventure

Clyde’s Adventure Platform categoryPuzzle category

Clyde’s Adventure‘s unexpected, almost uncharacteristic viciousness may speak to those who find playful ridicule motivating.

Screenshot from Crystal Caves

Crystal Caves Platform category

Is it a platformer or a puzzle game? Genre means little when games are challenging and rewarding like Crystal Caves.

Screenshot from Dinosaur Predators

Dinosaur Predators Educational categoryStrategy category

As an educational tool about dinosaurs, this game is limited by its strategic shortcomings. As a strategy game, it’s held back by its adherence to science.

Screenshot from Don't Go Alone

Don’t Go Alone RPG category

Often clumsy but never too tough, Don’t Go Alone has some spooky fun with its campy haunted house motif.

Screenshot from Faces ...tris III

Faces …tris III Puzzle category

Six years after designing Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov followed up his beloved puzzle game with a bizarre misfire about stacking faces.

Screenshot from Green

Green Strategy category

The throwback environmentalism in Green makes a cute political cartoon but a very vague strategy game.

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