Produced by Penguin Software-a small publisher later forced to rename itself to "Polarware" after repeated legal threats from Penguin Books- Oo-Topos was one of the company’s " Comprehend Interactive Novel" series of games.
#GAMES LIKE A TALE IN THE DESERT 2015 PC#
But as a card-carrying member of the " PC master race," the first PC games I (or at least my family) bought from the store hold a special place in the game shelf of my heart. We had a big wood-paneled Atari VCS (later known as the Atari 2600) with an enormous cardboard box of games that my uncle had given us, and by the time I was five or six, I was already an old hand at games like River Raid and Berzerk. It’s also important to note that while these were the first games we bought, they weren’t the first games I ever played. Or rather I "played" them with him-that is, he actually did the majority of the playing and I hung around and on him making kid-suggestions on what to do next and asking a lot of questions. One of the reasons I think I have so many warm memories of playing games as a kid is because of my dad-most often I played them with him. My dad bought them, often after me begging him to drive us to Babbage’s to pick something out-a car ride filled with wide-eyed anticipation on the way up and frantic manual-reading on the way back. Of course, I didn’t buy these games, because at the time I was like eight or ten years old. In this nostalgia piece, I'm both widening and narrowing the net-this time, I'm setting aside genre and game type and instead looking at the first five PC games I ever brought home from the local Babbage’s.
I've already written about the five space combat sims that defined my youth-but as the comments in that article aptly demonstrated, there’s far more to PC gaming than just space combat sims.
Further Reading Growing up gaming: The five space sims that defined my youth
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