Most '80s and '90s PC ports are better left forgotten, but a few were shockingly good for the time.
As headline-grabbing as their flaws can still occasionally be, PC ports have never been better than they are today. Most major console releases now make it to PC with significant upgrades, but that wasn’t always the case. The annals of PC gaming history are full of unpredictable, obscure and hilariously busted adaptations from consoles. Here are 10 particularly strange examples exhumed from the crypts.Many have heard of the infamousand the janky port of Street Fighter 2.
The best known NV1 card was the Diamond Edge 3D, one of the best-featured and most expensive graphics cards of the time. It boasted a pair of Saturn controller ports and a built-in sound card. While3. Cursed Mountain Sometimes a game is just sent out into the cold to die. Cursed Mountain was a middling survival horror game for the Wii with a Tibetan mountaineering theme, and publisher Deep Silver also rolled out a PC version.
It was a quirky, faster-paced take on standard RTS design, with players commanding squads rather than micromanaging individual units. Smart, given that it was streamlined for a controller with few buttons and just one analogue stick. Hundred Swords was relatively well reviewed, despite a meandering soundtrack and a forgettable steampunk fantasy setting.Even on its home turf in arcades, running on custom hardware, Hologram Time Traveler was never good.
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