Best FREE OS X native games?

[JordanShapiro]

Hey folks,

Have a few flights tomorrow and I'm looking for some nice games to load on my new 12". Found a couple off of version tracker but there are quite a few more and I'd like to solicit reccomendations before I go with random downloads!

Thanks!

Jordan

[Macette]

I was wondering this today too. I used to play a really awesome horizontal scrolling space game which had great sound-effects - can't remember what it was called! - and would love a replacement.

Anybody know of any Freeware/Shareware scrolling space games?

[scem0]

"the best games are always the simplest ones"
-- Emerson McAfee (me).

:D. It is true. The best games, excluding StarCraft, are always
the simple ones. Like, I would have 10x more fun playing original
Mario on an original Nintendo, then I would playing the newest
game on the newest game console. Well, I don't have Mac OS X,
or a mac for that matter, so I can't answer the question. But I
just wanted to express my opinion on games. ;)

[GeeYouEye]

Go to emulation.net, and get SNES9X. Then Google for ROM's, but only of games you actually own(ed).;)

[sageenos]

Frozen Bubble is a very well put together game
www.frozen-bubble.org
(linux program, but they've ported it to osx)

Airburst Carbon is very addicting (search version tracker for "airburst")

I found a good joust clone called Glypha 3 if I'm correct; it's hard but still fun.

[Jaykay]

Originally posted by sageenos
Frozen Bubble is a very well put together game


Yeah, great game, i used to play it on a linux box but i still cant get it to work on OS X.

Its a clone of Bubble Bobble (pretty much)

[timbloom]

Klondike (ancient solitaire, but updated for X). Blockforge (tetris), DopeWars...

[hariya]

Originally posted by Jaykay
Yeah, great game, i used to play it on a linux box but i still cant get it to work on OS X.

Its a clone of Bubble Bobble (pretty much)

Ask and you shall recieve
http://redivi.com/~bob/frozenbubble.html

[nighthawk]

If you are into RPG's, Spiderweb Software's (http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com) games are fun to play... especially the Geneforge game. They are demo games, but the game play is long enough that you would be able to be satisified for quite a number of hours.

[MacBandit]

I can't believe no one has metioned EV Nova (http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=14043&db=mac). It's a friggin awesome space game and it's shareware.

[cubist]

Frozen Bubble is OK too, it's a clone of Snood.

JewelToy is surprisingly addictive...

[Santiago]

Originally posted by Macette
I was wondering this today too. I used to play a really awesome horizontal scrolling space game which had great sound-effects - can't remember what it was called! - and would love a replacement.

Anybody know of any Freeware/Shareware scrolling space games?

Astrosquid is fun, and $10.

[MaxArturo]

I heard of this Pac-Clone that's really high-quality and you can get for free off the publisher's site but I can't remember what it is.

[macNoob]

I'd have to say Star Control II is one of my favorite games, and it's been ported to OSX at The Urquan Masters Homepage (http://sc2.sourceforge.net).

Along with the SNES emulator, you can find emulators for just about any system ever made at Mac Emuscene (http://mac.emuscene.com)

As far as native OSX games go, I'm a big fan of iConquer (http://homepage.mac.com/azc/iConquer/), though it's only free for a few days.

Occasionaly Version Tracker (http://www.versiontracker.com) has something interesting, as does Jeff's Page (http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/apps.php?sub=16&ft=0&f=) ...

[Macpoops]

And snood is just a copy of bustamove

[Doctor Q]

Read about Alias Underground (based on the TV show) in this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19164&highlight=alias+underground).