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Screenshot from Eyewitness Virtual Reality Earth Quest

Eyewitness Virtual Reality Earth Quest Educational categorySoftware category

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.

Screenshot from Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness

Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness Strategy category

Muriel Tramis’s slave rebellion strategy game confronts history with a cathartic rage never encountered in games – and it came out in the 80s.

Title screen from The Frogs Of War

The Frogs Of War Action category

Developed sporadically for two decades and based on a bizarre dream about lizard men, The Frogs Of War is a perplexing game that follows no other.

The entrance to Cyan Worlds headquarters in Mead, WA. A red stone arch stands in front of a small walkway bridge to the front door. On other side of the entrance are banners for the games Obduction and Firmament, with conifer trees further to the sides.

Hot dogs and history at Cyan Worlds Essay category

Cyan Worlds hosted an open house for the Mysterium fan convention in 2019, and a look inside their building was a look at a company embracing and enduring their history.

The box for Ultrabots, transformed. The two halves of the box have been separated, connected by a green-and-black-striped axle, and twisted in opposite directions.

The incredible boxes of Hock Wah Yeo Essay category

Hock Wah Yeo designed the most unusual boxes in the 90s game industry. They delighted game developers — and drove retailers up the wall. Take a close look at Yeo’s amazing boxes and the fight for the future of retail space.

Screenshot from Kaze no NOTAM

Kaze no NOTAM – NOTAM of Wind PlayStation categorySimulation categorySports category

Artdink’s hot air balloon game is a whirlwind of laid-back energy, where the control is taken out of your hands and there’s no wrong way to reach your destination.

Screenshot from Knights of the Crystallion

Knights of the Crystallion Other category

Bill Williams’s ridiculously ambitious “cultural simulation” game tries to create an entire society and its religion. It’s hard to understand, a chore to play, and incredible in scope.

Screenshot from Legacy Of The Golden Hammer

Legacy Of The Golden Hammer Platform category

Easy-to-use game creation tools let novice game designers make fanworks like Legacy Of The Golden Hammer, one part Mario game and three parts out-of-control action movie written by a teenager.

Screenshot from The Legend of Lotus Spring

The Legend of Lotus Spring Adventure category

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.

Screenshot from Millennium Auction

Millennium Auction Other category

A combination of random events and speculative fiction creates drama in this game’s virtual auction house. Does it matter that we can’t separate the randomness from the intentional storytelling and character? (This article includes a history of the game’s rocky production.)

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