> I picked it out of a lineup of discounted games in a mall and it hasn't left my psyche ever since.
This is how I found most of my favorite PC games as well, including this one.
Often there were these vertical mesh cylinders with a very low effort sign stuck in them that just read the price and that was it. You had to dig through layers upon layers of arbitrary games and surprisingly often found real gems.
It was an eye-opener for tween me to realize that some of the best games made in that era were about as popular as some of the worst games from the same era.
Thank you for the article, a really fascinating read! Good start to my morning.
I think this is similar now in most things. Music or blog posts etc. Yet when you try to discover something, for some reason it's really hard to find good quality material.
A few years ago there was mathematics progress in recommendation algorithms. Those could better things a lot. I foolishly disparaged the progress, as yet another way to sell us more content. I'm sorry for that. I've changed my mind since.
This is how I found most of my favorite PC games as well, including this one.
Often there were these vertical mesh cylinders with a very low effort sign stuck in them that just read the price and that was it. You had to dig through layers upon layers of arbitrary games and surprisingly often found real gems.
It was an eye-opener for tween me to realize that some of the best games made in that era were about as popular as some of the worst games from the same era.
Thank you for the article, a really fascinating read! Good start to my morning.