


All your life you’ve been the little man, the square peg, the forgotten man. They just had too much heart to exist in the grim 21 st century.You are Roger Samms. But nothing will ever feel like a late-90s CD-ROM adventure. Most of all, games had story, characters, and an actual attempt at being about something.Ĭurrent generations of console games have caught up now that we have wireframe and motion capture down to a better science. Visuals could be full-motion video to cartoons to 3D-meshes to voxels or anything in between. Games were starting to get the budget of movies and yet still had to fight to be considered art.

Weren’t the late ’90s a weird time in gaming? There was no standardization, everything was up for grabs. We’re recommending this Activision title solely on novelty alone. The plot is straight out of a Hogan’s Heroes episode, while the mechanics of the game are meticulously realistic. It’s largely research and puzzle-solving. There are some caveats: If you’re not a big Ace Attorney fan, this game is not nearly as action-packed as you’d hope. It was made with joint effort between US and Russian intel experts, in 1996 just years after the Cold War was declared over. It’s on the FMV interactive movie end of adventure gaming – sorry! – but redeems itself with its credentials. I’m recommending it simply because it’s so dang unique.

If you set out looking within the CD-ROM adventure game era (a small gaming culture to itself) and then limit yourself only to forgotten gems, you’re going to have a few quirks in the list, such as Spycraft: The Great Game.
