"90s"

1999 · RPG · PC / Steam

Planescape: Torment is one of the finest written RPGs ever made, a game that treats its medium as literature and pulls it off. Its combat drags and its systems can feel opaque, but the writing is so sharp and the world so strange that those problems shrink against everything else. If you want a game that asks hard questions and respects your intelligence enough to let you sit with the answers, this is it. Few RPGs have ever matched its ambition, and fewer still have delivered on it this completely.

1990 · 6 Seasons · NBC · Comedy

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air made Will Smith a star through a fish-out-of-water comedy that was funnier, more culturally significant, and more emotionally complex than its premise suggested. The class and cultural dynamics between Will and the Banks family provide comedy with genuine social observation, and the dramatic episodes, particularly the famous father scene, achieve an emotional power that transcends the sitcom form. The later seasons lose creative energy as the show became more of a vehicle for Smith's stardom than a comedy about culture clash.