The first time I saw Myst, I wasn’t even playing it. I was standing behind my friend Aaron’s chair in his parents’ study, watching over his shoulder as he clicked around a mysterious island. This would have been… let’s see… early 1994? Aaron’s family always had the latest tech—his dad was some kind of software engineer and brought home gadgets like they were grocery items. They had this Macintosh Performa with a CD-ROM drive when…
There’s something deeply personal about watching a game with tremendous potential slowly wither away. I’ve played my share of abandoned…
I watched Episode 4 of Amazon’s Fallout series at 2 AM on a work night, which probably wasn’t the smartest…
I still remember the day GTA Online launched. October 2013. I took the afternoon off work with a “migraine” that…
I still remember the exact moment Japanese RPGs hijacked my brain. It was summer 1994, and I was at my…
The first time I encountered Henry and Sam in the 2013 game, their story hit me like a punch to…
I came to EarthBound embarrassingly late. While other kids were experiencing it in 1995 when it launched in North America,…
I realized I might have a problem last Saturday at 6:42 AM. I was standing in a stranger’s garage in…
I first encountered Star Control II during what I now refer to as “The Great Summer Boredom of ’93.” My…
# The Impact of Modding Communities in the 90s The first time I modified a game, I broke it spectacularly.…
