Finally found one thing from my childhood that actually held up: Master of Orion

Something about being very sick made me want to go back and re-experience things that I loved as a child. Most of those things turned out to be unsatisfying. For instance, X-Com: UFO Defense (a twenty year old game where you build up a paramilitary force that's capable of defending the Earth from invading aliens) is a pretty fantastic game...but it's al…