Developer: LucasArts
Release Date: March 25, 1998

OK, true story: when this game was released the critics hated it. Most people hated it. However, in my college dorm two of my friends who lived across the hall played the demo from the PC Gamer demo disc and went and bought the game and played the game to death.

Star Wars: Rebellion is a 4X strategy game that was my first introduction to the concept of a game which reviews poorly but for some folks, it matches their wavelength perfectly. It's also something of a cult classic as it has been retroactively reviewed more positively.