Someone with a lot more patience and dedication than myself reviewed a game that I always felt should have some sort of coverage: Echelon.  It’s one of those games that was more of a tech demo than a game, a phenomenon that occurred often in the first 20 years of personal computer gaming.  Echelon was essentially Access flexing their programming muscles, first with a 3-D flight sim and, in a later revision, continuous digitized sound and speech from the internal PC speaker (on any 286 or higher, otherwise it pauses the system while audio is playing).  They loved this idea so much that Mean Streets was originally going to be a spiritual sequel to Echelon, with a better flight sim.  Thankfully, Mean Streets also had an adventure game built around the flight sim that was much more enjoyable, so that’s why subsequent games are known as Tex Murphy adventures and not flight sims.

Gemini’s review of Echelon is likely the only review anyone will ever see of this game, so I recommend you check it out.  And the next time you have a rainy day you should also check out the other 120 (!) episodes of his DOS-era game review show Ancient DOS Games.