A reader plays retro game Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy and finds an unusually inventive third person shooter with some very unique psychic powers.

Over two decades ago a cool game came out. Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy was published by Midway. It was a single-player action adventure with a rather unique selling point; this game lets you fight with your head as well as your hands.

You play as Nick Scryer, a rather gruff UN soldier who is captured during a terrorist attack. I must admit to having not much patience or interest in the game’s plot. As far as I could tell Nick used to be a PSI agent – PSI is short for psionics – in an organisation called Mindgate and had his memory wiped for the purposes of infiltrating the terrorist organisation that captures him, which is called The

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