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The greatest Mac game of all time
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Tallest Skil
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DoFoT9
macrumors P6
Fank
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Marathon trilogy
which later led to UT (yes, the best of the series for gameplay, and I still play)
ROBOSPORT
Prince of Persia
Monster Fair Pinball (best Mac pinball game ever, maybe best computer pinball game ever)
Flatout2
Of those, Marathon was the game that took me in, felt like I was that character, and tons of hours playing on lan, so that's my No. 1
Flatout2 I discovered just a few weeks ago - something about flying down side streets at insane speeds, doing a powerslide through the plate glass on the corner of a building and into an opponent to knock them into a wall, then hitting the nitro down the straightaway makes me giddy. heh Like an updated Carmageddon, with better everything.
Doesn't seem to be many if any other macheads playing it though. Runs great on 2 ghz intel imac with ATI 2400
which later led to UT (yes, the best of the series for gameplay, and I still play)
ROBOSPORT
Prince of Persia
Monster Fair Pinball (best Mac pinball game ever, maybe best computer pinball game ever)
Flatout2
Of those, Marathon was the game that took me in, felt like I was that character, and tons of hours playing on lan, so that's my No. 1
Flatout2 I discovered just a few weeks ago - something about flying down side streets at insane speeds, doing a powerslide through the plate glass on the corner of a building and into an opponent to knock them into a wall, then hitting the nitro down the straightaway makes me giddy. heh Like an updated Carmageddon, with better everything.
Doesn't seem to be many if any other macheads playing it though. Runs great on 2 ghz intel imac with ATI 2400
Oregon Trail
The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary!
Power Pete was good, too. I can still hear the pinging of my guns. "Come here, you rodent!" and "Free Dude!" Plus the terrible sound of Pete dying. 😛
The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary!
Power Pete was good, too. I can still hear the pinging of my guns. "Come here, you rodent!" and "Free Dude!" Plus the terrible sound of Pete dying. 😛
While the current games are much better, I have very fond memories of the following:
3. Marathon
2. Minotaur
1. Bolo
And, although I spent much more time coding it rather than playing it, Jamoria has a special place for me.
3. Marathon
2. Minotaur
1. Bolo
And, although I spent much more time coding it rather than playing it, Jamoria has a special place for me.
Oh yeah - Wizardry was the greatest. MATU!
Between that and Choplifter, and the Defender clone, you've got your classic gaming all defined in the early 1980's.
angemon89
macrumors 68000
This is probably one of the only games I have ever played on a Mac. 😛
4th grade, OS 8, Power Mac G3 All-in-one.
Ah, memories...
Wow... 4th grade and OS 8? Way to make me feel old.
I remember being in grade school and playing Oregon Trail (and Lemonade Stand) on the school's shiny new Apple ][e computers. Remember that feeling of panic when it asked for disc 2, and realizing that the teacher only gave you one disc.
Made me feel old too! My school only had one set of most of the disks, and we'd have to go to other classrooms to get the Accelerated Reader disks depending on which one we needed. I didn't use OS 8 until I was out of high school. We didn't even have color monitors in elementary school! 😱 Just green text (or orange text) and a grey-black screen.
All the "games" seemed to be more educational than game-ish, like MicroType and Amazon Trail. We also played a lot of Jeopardy! in elementary school.
cecildk9999
macrumors regular
Escape Velocity was one (albeit a small one 😛) of the reasons that got me to buy my first powerbook back in 2002 (I was feeling nostalgic, and the game was already 5 years old by then!). There was also a fun game I played growing up, I think it was called Afterlife or something (a SimCity-esque game of Heaven and Hell), and Syndicate was pretty fun too. If only I could play some of these classic games today on my MBP 🙁.
Beric
macrumors 68020
But you can! I've loaded up the original EV on Sheepshaver! All the good old classic games work on 10.5.
DoFoT9
macrumors P6
and now all we need is the actual games 😛 lol
burning rubber and bunny killer 3 were good
most of the old classics are here:::
http://mac.the-underdogs.info
rickvanr
macrumors 68040
Sim City 2000
Sim Tower
I've seen some of the older classic games ported for OS X on the torrent sites. Top 100 on Piratebay.
It's like a DOS emulator or something, but it runs on my G5. I'm assuming it'll work on intel boxes too. It's not great enough for me to ditch my G3 with 9.2 on it, but if all you have is a newer machine I'd say it's worth a go.
Sim Tower
I've seen some of the older classic games ported for OS X on the torrent sites. Top 100 on Piratebay.
It's like a DOS emulator or something, but it runs on my G5. I'm assuming it'll work on intel boxes too. It's not great enough for me to ditch my G3 with 9.2 on it, but if all you have is a newer machine I'd say it's worth a go.
angemon89
macrumors 68000
Anyone here remember a typing game for Mac OS 8(or 9?)? I remember there being a ghost character in like a haunted house that would teach you how to type. I've been trying to figure out what it's called but can't find anything. I used to "play" it in elementary school. 😛
