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iMac G4 games?
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What kind of games do you want to play? Here are a few I remember playing quite nicely on slower machines than yours.
Red Faction
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Star Craft I
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2
Red Faction
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Star Craft I
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2
Sid Meier's Pirates! (fun game to play)
Soldier of Fortune 2 (fun game to play)
Victoria (very long game to play)
Commandos 2 & 3
XIII
Splinter Cell (fun game to play)
Tropico MM (fun game to play)
First to Fight(Fun game to play)
Soldier of Fortune 2 (fun game to play)
Victoria (very long game to play)
Commandos 2 & 3
XIII
Splinter Cell (fun game to play)
Tropico MM (fun game to play)
First to Fight(Fun game to play)
There's also:
Oni (first OS X commercial game, don't know how well it runs on later OSes)
Giants: Citizen Kabuto (I've run it under Leopard, YMMV)
Knights of the Old Republic (has speed issues on Dantooine, poor port)
Jedi Knight (Dark Forces III)
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Academy
Max Payne
Halo
Aquaria (new game, runs perfectly fine on my 1.5 GHz PBG4)
There's also console emulation for NES, Genesis, SNES, etc (N64 and up is too much for a computer of your speed in my experience) if you already own the games. If you have some old DOS games, you can play most of them in DOSBox.
Oni (first OS X commercial game, don't know how well it runs on later OSes)
Giants: Citizen Kabuto (I've run it under Leopard, YMMV)
Knights of the Old Republic (has speed issues on Dantooine, poor port)
Jedi Knight (Dark Forces III)
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Academy
Max Payne
Halo
Aquaria (new game, runs perfectly fine on my 1.5 GHz PBG4)
There's also console emulation for NES, Genesis, SNES, etc (N64 and up is too much for a computer of your speed in my experience) if you already own the games. If you have some old DOS games, you can play most of them in DOSBox.
Starcraft & brood war
warcraft 2 and possibly 3 (3 ran on my powerbook 867!)
Emulators for pretty much any system up to PSX
OS9 classic cames (sim tower, sim farm, oregon trail, ect)
i think WoW may work if your into that lol
There is also mist and i think riven!
warcraft 2 and possibly 3 (3 ran on my powerbook 867!)
Emulators for pretty much any system up to PSX
OS9 classic cames (sim tower, sim farm, oregon trail, ect)
i think WoW may work if your into that lol
There is also mist and i think riven!
All Unreal Tournement games until 2004. If you like indie games, you could also try World of Goo, And yet it moves and Galcon fusion.
And yet another person who didn't read the thread... all those have been mentioned already
Scummvm works really well - so that covers almost all point&click adventures up to Monkey Island 3.
Also, I really wanted to get lemmings working on my Son's G4. There are a few clones and ports, but none of them are as good as the original amiga version. Fortunately, E-UAE (amiga emulator) runs great on the 700mhz PowerPC imac, and lemmings is pretty much perfect.
Also, I really wanted to get lemmings working on my Son's G4. There are a few clones and ports, but none of them are as good as the original amiga version. Fortunately, E-UAE (amiga emulator) runs great on the 700mhz PowerPC imac, and lemmings is pretty much perfect.
Nice that world of goo plays on these older machines. Will have it installed on my PowerBook then. I had it bought for my MBOP but the the logic board died.
Also i would reccomend:
Age of empires 1+2
Age of Mythologies
Call of duty 2
At least these are the last gsames i remember playing on my PB And emulators
Also i would reccomend:
Age of empires 1+2
Age of Mythologies
Call of duty 2
At least these are the last gsames i remember playing on my PB
And emulators