Star Wars in our modern age if such a strange thing. It's hard to believe that once upon a time, most of the Star Wars games we had to play were either ports of existing arcade games or rehashes of the movies into action and platforming games. At least on consoles, which is all I had access to during those days. But over in PC Land the good times were a little different. But over in PC Land, something else was brewing, something that combined a newly recognized genre popularized by DOOM, with our beloved Star Wars universe. And it had a new story featuring new characters. Of course, I am talking about Star Wars: Dark Forces for MS-DOS.
This is the first of a monthly series about older PC games that are not just great classic titles, but that hold up well enough to play today. Whether you are a long time PC gamer or just someone with a PC or Mac who is just a little curious about all of these amazing classic PC games that you have heard a ton about but have never played, I hope I can convince you to give some of these old games a try.
For this first entry, I thought I would talk about:
