Tagged: Windows 9x

Screenshot from Puppet Motel

Puppet Motel Multimedia category

Stark, frightening, silly, muddled, complicated – the multimedia collaboration between performance artist Laurie Anderson and the Voyager Company is a fragmented reflection on the murkiness of the electronic age.

Screenshot from Roller Coaster Factory

Roller Coaster Factory Simulation category

This joyless roller coaster game doesn’t care much about the fun of building, riding, or even looking at a theme park ride.

Screenshot from Secret Writer's Society

Secret Writer’s Society and the worst bug ever Educational category

This rote educational writing game has a huge problem that causes the text-to-speech voice to read a list of obscenities. After the game has been lost for 20 years, I got a copy, and now you can play it too!

Screenshot from Sentient

Sentient Adventure category

Sentient overwhelms you with the freedom to roam an active space station and absurdly detailed dialogue. How much of this is just for show?

Screenshot from Sierra LandDesigner 3D

Sierra LandDesigner 3D Software category

Sierra’s line of home productivity software (really!) included this gardening tool, which makes it easier to plan a garden but doesn’t necessarily teach how to landscape well.

Screenshot from SimIsle: Missions In The Rainforest

SimIsle: Missions In The Rainforest Simulation category

Everything has a visible cost in SimIsle, a tropical simulation game about the dynamics between industry, labor, and ecology. What does it mean that it contradicts its own environmentalist message?

Screenshot from SoulTrap

SoulTrap Platform category

SoulTrap is a nightmare – a frantic and clumsy trip through a fear-filled dreamworld so surreal that it’s abstract.

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.

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 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.

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