What the games and the disks elicited was a real feeling of mystery and excitement that is hard to come by in the era of online trailers, reviews, maps, and walkthroughs. While some of the games, like Hack, were genuine classics, and others, like Madame Fifi’s Whorehouse, were little more than novelties, they all had the air of a real adventure around them, magnified by my youthful exuberance.

