
More than likely, if my mom allowed me, I’d fall in love with the simple promise of being whisked away to the stars.


Starsiege: Tribes, Suikoden II, Half-Life, Giants: Citizen Kabuto and more were all stabs in the dark that paid off with hours of enthrallment in front of the glow of a CRT.Īs a young sci-fi fan, all anyone had to do back then to wrestle my hard-earned money from my wallet was throw some spaceships on a box. I discovered some of my favorite games with just the blind promises of the back of a box. The best you could do was to read a review or watch a grainy, minute-long Quicktime video that you spent an hour to download on 56k while hoping your $50 wasn’t spent in vain. It was a time when every video game purchase was a gamble.
