As with anything else in life, there is always going to be a best of the best list for games. PC games are no different. And while these lists are purely subjective, what follows are some of the games that most, if not all, die hard game players feel are some of the best PC games ever released. We’ll present a few of them and a brief description of each. You can venture out to pick up one or more of these titles feeling comfortable that many before you have enjoyed them.

“Return To Castle Wolfenstein” was voted PC game of the year when it was released so there had to be something good about it. The original was one of the first person shooter games, meaning that you saw everything from your own perspective. The action was fast and furious and was hard as heck. If you want a real challenge in knocking off the bad guys, this game will give it to you in spades.

“Ultima Underworld” was released in 1992. This game was so many years ahead of its time that it was a joke. It had one of the most complex and rich story lines of any PC game ever released. And even though graphically it isn’t up to the standards of today’s games, it is still one of the most fascinating adventure games of all time.

“Civilization” was released in 1991. This game is the ultimate in long term play. The premise is simple. You begin a civilization back during a time when you didn’t have electricity or any of the modern conveniences we have today. If you were lucky, you watched your civilization grow over a period of hundreds of years. This is one game that you could literally play for months, if not years on end. One of the most popular games ever.

“Pirates!” was released in 1988, which by today’s standards was pretty much in the stone ages of PC games. Still, this was one of the most fascinating games of all time. You started the game as an ordinary citizen. You could be French, Spanish, Dutch or English. Your task was to rescue your long lost sister. So, you took your pirate ship, got your crew together and went off to find her. The adventure that followed was nothing short of brilliant. This is one game that you will never tire of playing.

But what many people believe to be the best PC game ever made and again this is purely subjective, is the title X-COM: UFO Defense, which was released in 1994. The premise of this game is very simple. The Earth is about to be invaded by aliens so you have to gather a bunch of alien hunters to hold off the invasion. While the premise of the game may have been simple, the actual game itself was anything but, as you had to go through an enormous amount of work just to reach the point of defending the Earth, including building and equipping a base, building a radar station, buy enough equipment to survive the battle and then finally send your soldiers into battle. If aliens landed in a certain area and you did nothing about it, that area would cut off your funding. If you want to play a game that is incredibly challenging, X-COM: UFO Defense is one that will not disappoint you.

Michael Russell

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The secrecy and tight security that enshrines Area 51 is what makes so many people, particularly conspiracy theorists, speculate closely what the site is used for. The bureaucratic government reply to inquiries around Area 51 used to simply imply that the base does not exist. The base has expanded considerably over the years but it is better known as the testing area for other “Black Projects” such as the F-117 Stealth Fighter, A-12 Blackbird, and the B2 Stealth Bomber.

If you should wish to visit Area 51 you will be met with a warning sign that reminds you “photography is prohibited” in large letters….

Questionably, one of the most famous men associated with Area 51 is physicist Bob Lazar. Robert Scott Lazar was born in Coral Gables, Florida, in 1959 and is a name numerous people associate with Area 51. This is due to the fact that claims to have been employed at a complex recognised as “S-43 deep within the now dry Papoose lake bed. Bob Lazar is the most infamous whistle blower following his claims in the early 1980′s that he was employed by the US government to understand how extraterrestrial UFO space craft operated. He effectively was claiming that his employment was to directly reverse engineer “recovered” space crafts.

Lazar claims during the early days of his career he worked as a physicist on a highly classified government project, named Galileo. He also claimed to have received a 2 page briefing document in which it was claimed that Alien life forms indeed exist and been integrated within human evolution and that their spacecraft are being housed at S4, 15 miles away from Area 51, deep within Papoose Lake. Bob portrayed the complex as having being built into the bottom of the Papoose Range with nine aircraft style hangar doors angled at 60 degrees. Lazar further described the space craft that he performed on as being powered through an anti-matter reactor and as yet unknown energy source named “Element 1153.

Bob Lazar evidence to support his employment and subsequent whistle blowing claims came by way of a payslip which contains the intriguing designation E-6722MAJ and an internal telephone listing of the Meson Laboratories 1982, which included Bob Lazars name. It was also identified that his taxation documents incorporated the contract number he was provided while working at Area 51. Certainly some convincing evidence to support his employment at the top secret base. However, people started to become somewhat sceptical of his claims when it emerged that his educational background did not stand up to scrutiny. No substantiated evidence could be found that he had attended the California Institute of Technology or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as he had previously stated. Following his subsequent conviction after setting up a computerised security system in a location which turned out to house an illegal brothel, he became a discredited figure.

Certainly Bob Lazar and Area 51 go together well in terms of conspiracy theories however, given the information to support his employment at the US base some parts of his claims indeed stack up. If what Bob says is true then Area 51 (or the Air Force Flight Test Center as it is now known) is sure to be housing some significant artifacts and astounding technology, lets hope that President Obama can include these case files in his revolutionary freedom of information act release of classified information. We may at last be able to ascertain the validity of the hundreds of discredited stories not only of Bob Lazar, but others whom have dared to come forward in the belief that the knowledge and existence of alien technology and/or life should not be concealed for the privileged only, but should be for the consumption of all that wish to know.

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