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Favorite System 7 games

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I miss these dearly. I wish we could play them in emulation somehow. The next best thing is watching them played on Youtube.


  • Hellcats Over the Pacific
  • Uncharted Waters
  • Railroad Tycoon I and II
  • Pax Imperia I and II
  • King's Quest V
  • Quest For Glory
  • Red Baron

Others?

I think the sequels to RR Tycoon and Pax Imperia could have been OS 8, actually... The Sim games (Earth, City, and Ant) were OK, and of course Civilization never stopped evolving up to today.
 
You can google for:
Mini vMac.
Sheep Shaver.

www.macintoshgarden.org


My favorites are:
Lode Runner
Dark Castle
Pirates!
Shufflepuck Cafe
Crystal Quest
The Ancient Art of War

Some of the Sierra ones are available in a website, so you can play them online.
 
McGiord said:
My favorites are:
Lode Runner
Dark Castle
Pirates!
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Pirates! strained my system, that and F-18 Hornet ("strain" often meant "crash" back then).

Lode Runner, I seem to remember the Atari version...

Some of the Sierra ones are available in a website, so you can play them online.
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Sweet. I'll check it out.
 
The LucasArts point-and-click adventures :)

I have Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle on my PPC machine.
 
Castle Wolfenstein, of course! I remember watching my dad playing that on our Centris 660AV, which still works. I also seem to remember Number Crunchers being rather fun. And then of course there were the obligatory "space invader" type games, of which we have plenty...the System 7 machine is still my gaming computer when it turns on. :)

...and for the record, though I have never ever had luck running any kind of System 7 emulator like SheepShaver or Basilisk, I do play many of my favorite old games in emulation on my MBP.
 
I also remember a game cheater for System 7 called Cheat ii. It would search the RAM for any number you input (such as a score or dollar amount), then when the number changed you'd search for the new number and it could usually identify the memory location and allow you to change it.

This could be dangerous with some games, but most often it was perfectly safe.
 
Lots. Scarab of Ra, Sim City, Dark Castle, Marathon, Solarian, and a bunch of others I forgot. Oh, and some from Ambrosia SW.
 
I also enjoyed Sim City (Sim City 2000)...

My favorite System 7 game was probably Marathon 2, I especially enjoyed playing Multiplayer arena games over AppleTalk with friends on our PowerBooks during our off-periods in school. Oh, the memories!
 
Pirates! is the one game I have played on so many different systems. Let's take a look:

C=64
PC (on a friends machine)
Years later on Amiga. I still have an update disk and letter I received for reporting a bug.

Then the new version on PC and PSP.

Such a good game... Now for some Defender of the Crown!
 
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Realms
Doom 2
Duke Nukem 3D
Prince of Persia
Exile
All King's Quest
Battle Chess
MS Flight Simulator

Though I think some of these were System 6 titles.
 
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I love System 7 games. There are so many I was fond of. I still keep some installed within Basilisk II on my MBP. Some of my favorites were:

- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- Prince of Persia
- Rescue!
- Spacestation Pheta
- Movid II
- SimCity 2000
- SimTower
- Battle Chess
- Spectre
- Quest for Glory
- Glider
- Escape Velocity
- Warcraft
- Warlords

And more!
 
Awesome thread.

Indeed, one of my favourites just hit iOS, Bonkheads!

Others as already mentioned, definitely Marathon and Escape Velocity - I used to have EV Override running, had to have RAM Doubler going (LCIII upgraded to 8MB RAM wasn't quite enough) and even then it took 5 minutes to load, and some of the ship graphics got messed up when turning between 9 and 12 o'clock, and a few of the sounds crashed the game ... but all that aside, totally worth it, one of the best games of the time, maybe ever.

Fury of the Furries! Also had a fun few bugs that crashed the game but I managed to complete it despite all that ... then did it again under emulation years later :).

Warlords I/II - so much time spent on those back then, hotseat and vs AIs, very good fun.

Beam Wars was an awesome tron clone - 4 players and the walls would start closing in over time, never seen one quite as fun.

Chrysanthemum - a cool tetris style flower arranging game.

1000 miles - first time I saw this card game, very nice system 7 implementation.
 
mtbdudex said:
+1 !

Also, Barney Blaster....not a game but a screen saver module for afterdark....too funny but in todays pc climate not sure if it would even be done.
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Do you still have it. I used to and I can’t find it anywhere
 
crazyp said:
Do you still have it. I used to and I can’t find it anywhere
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Holy 13 year old thread comeback.
So, you joined 8 years ago.
Never made a post till today, in this thread?
If I was suspicious I’d say your account was hacked and someone else than you posted this.
64ec6f76566c3126374c16f3b81ed8fc.jpg
 
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mtbdudex said:
Holy 13 year old thread comeback.
So, you joined 8 years ago.
Never made a post till today, in this thread?
If I was suspicious I’d say your account was hacked and someone else than you posted this.
64ec6f76566c3126374c16f3b81ed8fc.jpg
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Nope not hacked. I hadn’t realized I had registered that long ago. I realize it’s an old thread but this is one of 2 mentions of the screensaver I can find on the web. The other is a bad link to a dead infomac mirror
 
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