Eyewitness Virtual Reality Earth Quest
Inspired by CD-ROM adventure games, Dorling Kindersley’s virtual museum of earth science is like an encyclopedia blown up into a colossal educational destination.
Inspired by CD-ROM adventure games, Dorling Kindersley’s virtual museum of earth science is like an encyclopedia blown up into a colossal educational destination.
An exceptional piece of alienating design, GADGET: Invention, Travel, & Adventure terrifies and enraptures as it barrels into an uncomfortable, Kubrickian territory.
Ghosts and Weird invite you into virtual museums of the paranormal. They walk a thin line between misinformation and good-natured spookiness. And Christopher Lee is there!
This officially sanctioned modification of Half-Life catches the shooter genre mid-growth, sandwiched between a history of dark corridors and the promise of expansiveness.
Technical constraints and a very brief length prevent Hell Cab from being more than a roller coaster ride with an attitude.
The Journeyman Project has a brilliant vision of the future, a standout among games of its time, that tackles a great paperback science fiction premise with maturity and hope.
With zero words and hundreds of clicky buttons, Haruhiko Shono’s early CD-ROM adventure game L-ZONE paints an ambient, musical portrait of a mysterious planet where machines are equally fun and foreboding.
Bradley W. Schenck’s terrific blend of the ordinary and the surreal stages a one-of-a-kind world that elevates an otherwise by-the-numbers adventure.
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.
Although blatantly inspired by Myst, Sierra’s Lighthouse has its own take on how to build an indifferent world.