Why Tomb Raider Was the Best Place to Be Alone in 1996

Earl Grey, T-Rexes, and the art of pure isolation

While the Macarena was busy doing irreparable damage to the collective human psyche and Independence Day was teaching us that alien motherships run on “compatible operating systems”, something far more important was happening inside my favorite grey plastic box.

A British woman with a braid made of exactly three polygons was shooting endangered species i…