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Podcast: Retro Spectives
Episode: E126: Tachyon: The Fringe
Description: Space Sims used to be a vibrant and well populated genre. Back in the 90s they command shelf real estate, right next to the latest and greatest RTS and Point and Click Adventure games. Coming at the tail end of this era was Tachyon: The Fringe, released in 2000 by Novalogic games, well known for their regular flight sims and the Delta Force series. You play as Jake Logan, a freelancing mercenary, who quickly gets caught up in the midst of a fight for independence. A megacorporation has been given the legal rights to mine on the Fringe, and...