If EA hadn’t published this game on the Genesis I may have never found the Heroes of Might and Magic series. Some remember it as a Donkey Kong rip off, but I don’t remember Jumpman (I’m much to cool to refer to him as Mario) having to deal with OSHA representatives. You control Mack, a construction worker, who must capture runaway jackhammers, fill in missing chunks of the floor, and collect lunch boxes. I was very young when I played this on my brother’s C64 but I remember it being quite difficult. This is Electronic Arts first published game. The Haunting is a little repetitive but it deserves to be remembered for its sheer creativity. When you’re out of plasm, you don’t die, but rather are sent to the underworld where you must escape or suffer the dreaded game over.
Each possession costs ectoplasm, though, so you want to maximize the fear you induce. You can possess refrigerators, couches, mirrors, and a ton of other things and each item has an amusing animation of you freaking out the victim. You control Polterguy, a dead kid who must chase an Italian family out of their home by scaring the shit out of them. The first Genesis title on the list, this is also a very original game. Molyneux and Bullfrog later reworked Populous in Powermonger, but those too young to remember either just need to know that Populous is the spiritual predecessor of Black and White. Stupid nature.) The key is to raise all of your land really high then flood the fuck out of the world, Yahweh style. Besides the aforementioned spell, you, playing as a god, can also send floods and earthquakes to ravage the enemy’s lands (although often they end up hurting your own people. Populous, widely considered the first God Game, puts you in control of a tribe of humans with the goal, of course, being to annihilate an opposing tribe. The Armageddon command is sort of a rip off of the Apocalypse spell from Archon 2, but if you’re going to steal, steal from the best. This game made Peter Molyneux famous and is still an excellent time. Remember that name, he pops up a few times on this list.
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Archon was designed by Free Fall, and one of the guys on the team was Paul Reiche III. I think it actually makes the game more interesting, as well as a lot harder. Some people aren’t happy that II changes the rules and makes Archon less chess like by putting more of a focus on the occupation of certain key squares. Both games play like Battle Chess (which came out after Archon), but the second has cooler creatures and more of an emphasis on building an army. The first Archon is a bonafide classic, but I still prefer the sequel. What’s that, you ask? You’re a snobby gamer who dislikes EA, too, but you wonder why they were once a respectable publisher? Like all good questions, this one can be answered with a list.
Every now and then, usually after reading a review of some terrible EA published game or news that they bought and destroyed a small developer, I reminisce about the good old days when the ECA logo didn’t make me cringe, but was actually a sign of quality. It turns out that they screwed Chris Crawford in the 80’s and undoubtedly weren’t the pinnacle of business ethics, but they also published good games. Tags below the threshold do not have enough votes to be considered valid for this game yet.A long, long time ago, back when Electronic Arts went by the abbreviation ECA, the company was not clearly evil. Votes are the number of times a tag has been applied to this game by a Steam user,
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