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The final crapshoot: Over 200 rolls later, it's time to put away the dice

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.

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Meet the unluckiest videogame protagonist in history as we look back at Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

From 2010 to 2014 Richard Cobbett wrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random games back into the light. This week, a lost adventure about a lost adventure where ship happened and the world was never the same.

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There really is a game called Toilet Tycoon, and we played it

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.

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Why the first South Park videogame got a review score of 8%

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.

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Fountain of Dreams, the Wasteland sequel that time forgot

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.

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Future Wars, the time-travel adventure about a questionably heroic window washer

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.

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Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, Big Rigs, Limbo of the Lost, and more of the worst games ever get their punishment

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.

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Afterlife, the 'Sim Hell' game by LucasArts, was a sadly wasted opportunity

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.

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FMV fighting game Supreme Warrior was worse than a slap in the face

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.

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In 1997, horror game Haunted Casino tried to scare us chipless

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.

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Prepare for the strangest ride of your life in 1993's Hell Cab

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.

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Gold Rush! was one of Sierra's odder adventures, but what made it so strange?

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.

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Before Doom, before Wolfenstein 3D, why does nobody remember one of the first first-person shooters?

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.

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Before Unreal or Gears of War, a young Cliff Bleszinski made a shareware game called The Palace of Deceit

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.

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An Englishman plays American Revolution sim Liberty or Death

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.

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Taking on 'a master race from outer space' in 1988's Rocket Ranger

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.

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It's hard not to feel sorry for the overshadowed 1992 Dune game

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.

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Go back to a time when a 56k modem made you a god among geeks with Neuromancer

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