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Fair Warning: this article contains plot spoilers for Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge and The Curse of Monkey Island. No puzzle spoilers, however… The ending of 1991’s Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge is as shocking in its way as that of the infamous last episode of the classic television series St. Elsewhere. ...

The years from 1991 to 1998 were special ones in which to be a Star Wars fan. For during these years, more so than during any other time in the franchise’s existence, Star Wars truly belonged to its fans. The period just before this one is sometimes called the “Dark Period” or the “Dark Ages” by the fans of today. A...

We don’t have a strategy to do a $200 game console that is a direct competitor to what Nintendo, Sega, and Sony are doing… — Bill Gates, June 1996 It’s hard to overstate the scale of the real-time-strategy deluge of the late 1990s. For a period of several years, it seemed that every studio and publisher in the indus...