Few gaming moments are genuinely transformative, but for me, the appearance of Tomb Raider was precisely that. The late 1990s were a time when games had a penchant for world-building and interactivity, promising moments of adventure and danger (especially as CD-ROM technology allowed developers to become more sophisticated in their art and design abilities). One game stuck out to me on a Blockbuster shelf one day: a title called Tomb Raider. Nothing about the box…