Soma Drop: Settlers 2
Title: Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici Developer: Blue Byte Publisher: Blue Byte Release: August 1996 ( get it here! ) The greatest screensaver ever created!
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Soma Drop: Wonder Project J
Title: Wonder Project J Developer: Enix (designed by Takashi Yoneda) Release: December 1994 Platform: Super Nintendo Entertainment System The point at which the phrase “video games are like my children” stops being a hyperbole
Soma Drop: Fallout
Title: Fallout Developer: Black Isle Studios Publisher: Interplay Release: 1997 (you can now find it on GOG ) In a world with no hope, you are asked to find water. Goddamnit, where are these people's priorities
Soma Drop: Chrono Trigger
Soma Drop is a retrospective. A “nostalgia article”, if you’d like. I love the “Gaming Made Me” feature on RockPaperShotgun , so this is my version of it. Soma is also the name of a “pacification device” used in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World . I like the idea behind it…that it was administered to anybody who started feel the stressed or dissatisfied with life. The effects of the drug were immediate, effective, and long-lasting, but had an ironic downside: prolonged successive Soma “trips” resulted in a premature death; death by hypoperfusion.