These games were all dubbed 'Future Classics' once, but how do they actually measure up?
wrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random games back into the light. This week, as another year draws slowly to a close, it's time for a little nostalgia about the greatest games nobody seems to remember.
Admittedly, the choices here are still somewhat unusual, offering multiple colours and a variety of non-standard brick shapes, and it feels like simply using standard rectangular blocks of the same hue would result in a far more sensible result. Of course, things aren't perfect. Yes, you can now build far more ambitious projects than the classic Tetris 'wall', though Block Alanche does share that game's critical flaw in that completing lines will force them to vanish.
Your job as the Disk Man is to enter computer systems that have been infected by Pac-Men and filled with dynamite for no apparent reason, but are still doing better than most machines infested with Windows 8. [This joke was topical at the time of writing. Pretend it's a reference to Windows 11, or whatever is current when you're reading this. - Ed.] Like all the best games, you press keys and things happen.
The parable continues. What is your purpose? You'd think it would be to win the war, but no. The lack of narrative means that any battle that must be fought must be against yourself, internally. Every level is another step that you actively choose to take, even knowing that at any moment you could turn your back on the conflict and walk away. Possibly into another, better conflict.
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