From the pages of the past, games of yesteryear – Ultima I
There isn’t really much more that I can say that so many others have already done so well about one of the giant cornerstones of CRPGs. Richard Garriott’s hobby, which […]
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From the pages of the past, games of yesteryear – Ultima Underworld II
Origin’s Ultima Underworld rewrote what to expect in a CRPG when it arrived in 1992, raising the bar on interactive, virtual dungeons with massive levels perforated with materials of questing. […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Crusader: No Regret
A year later, Origin’s sequel to Crusader: No Remorse in 1996 arrived to spread more ultra violence in space. Lots of new weapons and effects were packed in such as […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Crusader: No Remorse
Origin’s Crusader: No Remorse hit CD-ROM only shelves in 1995 for PCs and was, in many ways, a bold experiment in pushing the envelope. As Tony Zurovec notes in an […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Times of Lore
Chris Roberts, the godfather of the Wing Commander series, didn’t always dream of starfighters duking it out in space. In 1988, years before he pit the Kilrathi and the Confederation […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – System Shock
Seeing Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs on their E3 feed made me think of another cyberpunk-like title back in the day. 1994, to be exact. In the year that saw Wing Commander […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Strike Commander
Turning the page back a bit, Origin’s high-flying aspirations didn’t always target space as the final frontier for their technical expertise. Chris Roberts had also wanted to bring the same […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Privateer 2: The Darkening
Though Lucasarts dropped the ball with X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter’s story-less target range in 1996, Origin was still busy working on Wing Commander Prophecy for 1997. But before that came […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Wing Commander Armada
Privateer wasn’t the only game to try and stage a different take on the series. Wing Commander Armada was released in mid-1994, a few months before Wing Commander III’s debut, […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Privateer
Wing Commander III was a big success for Origin, but it wasn’t the only game that continued to push the development house along the bleeding edge. Another game that I […]
