Thank you for that great retrospective. Really brought back memories. I even had the same 66MHz Gateway PC (desktop though). I'm sorry to say, and a bit loathe to admit, I had never heard of Ginger ...

Once a household name, the Origins Systems-developed space combat simulation has been dormant since 1998 (with the exception of a 2007 Xbox Live revival project). Here's the entire list of games.

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