■ Release: 1999 Developer: Appeal Publisher: Infogrames Link:bit.ly/3Fa1ORj
Step with me my friend back to the now very distant past of 1999. Stepping out of our time machine we now exist in a PC gaming world where beige PC tower rigs rule the roost, 3dfx Voodoo graphics cards are still a thing, and Team Fortress Classic is being played over LAN in APC Towers. Oh, and Outcast is hitting store shelves in all its big-box PC glory.
And, despite sales that will go on to be described, at best, as modest; and the fact that its maker Appeal will go on to bankruptcy within two years of it release, is about to change the scope and vision of videogames as a medium forever. All truly great pieces of art stem from ambition. That desire to push the boundaries remains even to this day one of the most visionary and ambitious games of all time.
