Latest articles by Richard Cobbett
Crapshoot: The TV show of the predecessor of Day of the Tentacle
Pretty fly We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: The game that put the final nail in the Zork series' coffin
Grue-some We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Shadow Warrior, the game that tried to out-crass Duke Nukem
Lo hanging fruit We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Deus, the FPS that made us do surgery to get hit points back
Operation We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: If you can't go to a bar in real life, Bar Games is not a good replacement
Biers We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Police Quest, which was horrifyingly used as a training tool by real cops
Blue's Clues We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: The inconceivably bad Princess Bride adaptation
Classic blunder We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Game Over, the movie made of terrible leftover cutscenes
The Movies We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Mortimer, the flying snail with the catchy tunes
Fail Snail We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Lula 3D, another unsexy sex game
BOO-la We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Harvester, the gory horror game that's horrifying for the wrong reasons
Video nasty We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Man Enough, the unromantic romance game
Dated We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Wing Commander, the Saturday morning cartoon
Fly right We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Leisure Suit Larry 2 and its many unavoidable deaths
Hot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Xena, the interactive "Multipath Movie"
Bleak myth We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: That's edutainment with Captain Bible
Sinful We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Conspiracies, the poor man's Tex Murphy
Hobocop We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Doom may be a classic, but were the novels?
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
The history of cyberpunk on PC
futureshock For over 30 years, cyberpunk has mapped technology’s most pessimistic path.
Crapshoot: Destiny of the Doctors, the Doctor Who game where you play an alien jellyfish
EXTERMINATE We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Bouncing Babies, the game of reckless infant slaughter
Splat We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: Wiedźmin, the Witcher movie from 2001
Which? We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Crapshoot: 3D Construction Kit, the toolset for making your own crap games
DIY We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
