Here’s another one that should be dead easy, but I’m using it because it was such a great game and the progenitor of an even greater series.

Name and developer, please! If you get it right I’ll shoot that guy off your six for you. You know, the one you can’t seem to shake?

Strategy/Simulation games tend to take one of two paths when dealing with little people. They either abstract them out completely, like in the SimCity games, or the model them in incredible detail, like the game I’m featuring today!

Name and developer, please! Actually, this game had two different names…bonus points if you can provide both of them. If you win, I’ll trade you three sheep for a brick. Come on, you’re not going to find a better deal than that!

After last week’s depressionfest I figured it was a good idea to feature a light, airy, uplifting game.

During a previous job search I applied at the company that made this game – they were just finishing it up.  I was really taken with it; I thought it was colorful and clever.  Unfortunately they didn’t hire me and the game came out and died at retail.  It probably would have done great as a flash-based online casual game, and I wish someone would make one similar (or tell me that one similar exists).

Name and developer, please!  If you win, I’ll show you this really cool Rube Goldberg contraption I made that presses a key on a keyboard every time you drop a seventeen-pound bowling ball down the right hole.

This game is notable because it’s based on a short story by a famous author, who was heavily involved in this game’s development – going so far as to voice the game’s main villain.

It’s also notable because the game can’t really be won – there are multiple endings and they are all bad. But one is much less bad than the others.

Name and developer, please!

Frankly, I can’t say anything about the development of this game without giving huge clues as to what it is, so I’ll just present the screenshot.

Name and developer, please! If you win, I’ll FTOL your TAC and SCAN your STS for you.

Okay, let’s get back to normal with an episode of Name That Game!

I really wanted to like this game. It was a first-person fantasy RPG at a time when there weren’t that many of them and it was billed as the spiritual successor to a defunct line of famous first-person RPGs. But I couldn’t like it because the control scheme was awful and unfixable.

Name and developer, please! Bonus points if you can tell me what RPG series this game was supposed to be the followup to.

This one shouldn’t be too hard. Oddly enough, it’s another collaboration between two companies – one of which doesn’t even make computer games.

Name and developer, please! If you win I’ll let you into my bandit cycle gang!

Once again, this one is pretty easy and I chose it specifically for its interesting history. It was a collaboration between two famous companies, one of which is pretty surprising.

Name and developers, please!

Whoa…this game looks like a cross between Jagged Alliance and X-Com…probably because that’s exactly what it is.

Name and developer, please! For bonus points, please tell me what other game I’ve featured on Name That Game that this one can interlock with!

A lot of people think that Total Annihilation was the first game to use real 3D terrain in an RTS. They are mistaken; this game beat TA to market by a few months. This is perfectly analogous to the fact that Wing Commander was technically the first movie to use bullet time, not The Matrix.

I never cared for this game much, and it wasn’t because it was bad (it was actually pretty average). I didn’t like it because it was…kind of mean-spirited. Case in point: one side in this game has a vehicle called the Hostage Taker which scoops up enemy infantry, lobotomizes them, straps explosives onto them and lets them go, at which point they wander around mindlessly until they hit something and blow up.

Name and developer, please!