In which we lose the war for every side we choose... I should've known number 13 would be unlucky. Aces Over Europe is a great combat flight simulator from 1993 by Dynamix, and lets you fly a variety of combat aircraft from WWII through all kinds of missions and campaigns. It's got a great flight model, and all the planes are realistically portrayed. You can even fly some two-seat planes. Definitely a nice gem from the middle days of DOS, lots of fun. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GuLcWgM6qQ

"OH! Where am I? I'm dead but I don't know... did I fall out of the train? Oh my god I fell out of the clipping of the train." Iron Storm is an alternate-history type first person shooter that takes place in a universe where World War I continued because the Bolshevik Revolution failed. It's notorious for its difficulty, but I find the setting and backstory quite fascinating. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxiBzA2m0hk

Blast head-long into the robot-infested mines in Descent, a heart-pounding action-shooter from Interplay and Parallax Software (1995)! Descent was the first truly-3D shooter, allowing six degrees of freedom and movement in all directions, with 30 fully 3D levels and numerous enemies. The objective was to enter mines, military bases, and research stations scattered throughout the solar system and destroy their fusion reactors to trigger a complete meltdown and destruction of the mines. Side objectives were the rescue of all remaining mining personnel, as well as destruction of the normally-mundane mining robots, infected with a computer virus that caused them to go berserk and refuse all remote commands. Stranger still, the mines appear to be creating and designing new robots for their needs... Performed on Rookie difficulty, because I'm not quite so good at it Add &fmt=18 for high quality. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICUrNSF__yI

"You are the generic default dude. You come from a long line of generic default dudes." Character creation! So much fun. So many options. This time I'm going to be playing not just Fallout 2, Interplay's sequel to the smash RPG Fallout, but I'm also going to be playing the Restoration Project. The Restoration Project is a mod created by the No-Mutants-Allowed user Killap, designed to add back in much of the content that was cut from Fallout 2 due to time constraints. It also fixes multiple bugs and adds some additional graphics features. Your home, the village of Arroyo, is dying. The tribe founded by the original Vault Dweller from Fallout needs you to venture into the Wasteland to retrieve the fabled Garden of Eden Creation Kit, a device said to 'bring life to the Wasteland'. Along the way you'll meet more strange mutants, unique characters, and even some old friends. You'll even get a chance to revisit some of the locations from Fallout 1... but the Wasteland has changed in the last 80 years... ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ztPn-ptp_U