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A Teazle game board, shaped, like a diamond, divided into a 5-by-5 grid. Each space on the board has an icon for a different minigame. The background is a collage of space imagery and ancient stone pillars.

Teazle Arcade categoryBoard categoryPuzzle category

One minute, it’s a racing game. The next minute, it’s math. Teazle is a digital board game made out of minigames, and its wild variety is both its biggest strength and its biggest weakness.

Screenshot from The Groove Thing

The Groove Thing Macintosh categorySoftware category

A trippy piece of single-purpose novelty art software like The Groove Thing feels anachronistic today. It’s here to make groovy background art with full-hearted 90s aggression, and it does it well enough.

Screenshot from The Time Warp of Dr. Brain

The Time Warp of Dr. Brain Educational categoryPuzzle category

Time Warp seasons the Dr. Brain formula with historical action games that, while thematically sound, are arguably a step back in quality.

Screenshot from Transarctica

Transarctica Simulation category

This bleak resource trading game holds onto hope and perseverance amid the cold. (Except for the slavery stuff.)

Screenshot from Troggle Trouble Math

Troggle Trouble Math Educational category

In a big departure for MECC’s Munchers series, the spinoff Troggle Trouble Math is like a math dungeon crawler, with a story and structure that can fit a variety of math activities.

Animated screenshot of the menu screen from Troubled Souls

Troubled Souls Macintosh categoryPuzzle category

Ghoulish atmosphere and a few smart tweaks make Troubled Souls one of the better iterations of a well-worn puzzle formula.

Screenshot from Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse

Uncle Buddy’s Phantom Funhouse Macintosh categoryMultimedia category

Phantom Funhouse uses a surprising amount of made-up books and files to create the life of a sci-fi punk artist – and then to question the nature of reality.

Screenshot from The Walt Disney World Explorer CD-ROM

The Walt Disney World Explorer CD-ROM Software category

Disney World is a fantasy, an illusion, and the Disney World CD-ROM is a guide to what that fantasy was supposed to look like on its 25th anniversary.

Screenshot from Wrath of the Gods

Wrath of the Gods Adventure categoryEducational category

You have to admire the ambition and scope of an edutainment game that covers the entire pantheon of Greek legend and, weathering its constantly messy design and acting, sort of achieves its goals.

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