when games too execrable to describe filled our senses with dread and made us think that maybe new technology wasn't so cool after all.
#Life is feudal wiki glass Pc#
"We all remember those frightening, horrific days when CD-ROMs first hit the mass market PC world.
During a "history of PC gaming" article, the author tries to predict the future: voice recognition will be a great boon "for space combat/mech sims in particular", VR will never make a comeback, force feedback gloves and mice will be popular, and puzzle solving and quests "as found in Ultima 7" will be the standard.Before getting to that, the magazine has a few other features worth adding: The games are presented in reverse order in the booklet, and I'm following that here, so the number one game will be #100, and so on. Now, 14 years later (with the magazine still running, mind you), it's still interesting to look back at them and see how many of the choices stand up to scrutiny, and how many new games would really deserve a slot. I thought it was pretty neat and held on to it. Or at least, the most influential games that weren't only released on consoles or handhelds.
In 2000, back when I was still buying paper gaming magazines, the Australian magazine "PC Powerplay" included a little booklet one month, with what they considered to be the "most influential games in history". PC PowerPlay's 100 Classic PC Games (2000)
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