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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.

PC Gamer · Aug 12, 2023

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.

PC Gamer · Aug 6, 2023

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.

PC Gamer · Jul 29, 2023

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.

PC Gamer · Jun 24, 2023

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.

PC Gamer · Jun 17, 2023

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.

PC Gamer · Jun 10, 2023

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.

PC Gamer · Jun 4, 2023

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.

PC Gamer · May 27, 2023

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.

PC Gamer · May 20, 2023

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.

PC Gamer · May 14, 2023