For armchair quarterbacks who just can’t get enough on Sunday afternoon. Choose standard plays or design your own, then watch the mayhem unfold in TV-style graphics with multiple “camera angles.”

You’re at the controls of a bomb-laden B-52, packed with enough doodads and navigation, electronic-warfare and radar screens to keep the most jaded game veteran jumpy for hours.

Nerdy college student Ernie Eaglebeak is back in this somewhat sexist, R-rated romp. Nice mix of old-fashioned text-based problem solving and state-of-the-art sound and graphics,

ragons-style game for hard-core fantasy role players. This sequel offers more and meaner monsters as you venture through the forest in search of Temple Darkmoon.

Command a star ship–make that a star fleet–in the 24th century. Warning: even Captain Picard would need a training course. Just reading the manual takes two weeks.

From the creator of the classic Railroad Tycoon, this resource-management game lets you guide a culture from the Stone Age to the space age. Along the way, try to outwit the likes of Ramses II and Napoleon.