Steam | GOG
| ESRB Rating: Teen 
Having cut their teeth for years on the tabletop market, ALTAR Publishing would get enough experience with computer games to create their sister company ALTAR Interactive. Following up on their initial puzzle title Fish Fillets, the team at ALTAR would positively knock it out of the park with Original War! You play John Macmillan, a soldier who has signed up to enter a device discovered in Siberia called the EON, an honest-to-God time machine. His mission is simple, to enter 20,000 years into the past to extract the only resource that can suitably power the EON, known as 'siberate'. It becomes far less simple when the Russian forces make it to the past at the same time as the American forces, leading to a war for the siberite - the very first war ever held on Earth. The team based mechanic is a truly magnificant thing to see in action once you've gotten your bearings, and it really does feel amazing taking down a platoon of enemies giving you trouble, setting up facilities to protect yourself and your supply depots. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the hard work of the team at OWSupport for making this game as functional this far past 2001 as it is!
Note: This is an old Flash game that will require Ruffle or other Flash emulator to run.
| Net Revenue: Freeware N/A | Game Engine: Flash 4 
When I was much, much younger and had a frankly irresponsible amount of time on the early Internet, I spent a lot of time playing Flash games. One fateful day, I come across Dream: The Game by Glen Rhodes, and it blew my tiny mind. This game has so much presentation in a period of time when everything coming out of Flash 4 looked sickly and it made a profound impression on me - the way the early 3D is implemented, the core concept of the game, the music (oh my God, the music!) - everything about this cemented a lot of stylistic choices and became a core memory for me, but more than that, it's also one of the absolute best games to have come out of that early period of Flash, and one of my personal favorites. I highly recommend it!
| Net Revenue: Freeware N/A | Game Engine: Flash
Presenting a nice little auto runner from developer preshing! You play Pol, a sturdy fellow in a state of undress, excaping from a testing facility! The game moves continuiously to the right while generating nuisances to dodge around, like balloons and mines and Smurfs! For the relative age of the game, the controls handle remarkably well and dodging through an entire level is very satisying! Can you make it to level 10?