Developers could release new games at affordable rates, allowing them to distribute freely to individuals and firms willing to act as distributors. The games of the 1990s existed.īefore the internet became ubiquitous, there was a model dubbed’shareware’. Games that existed existed? Yes, let’s move forward.
This week, a mixed bag of 1990s…well, classics may be a strong word. Richard Cobbett published Crapshoot, a column about rolling dice to bring random obscure games back to the spotlight, from 2010 to 2014. We’re rerunning Richard Cobbett’s classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games (both bad and bad).
