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Mac Gaming History Remembered

Posted by simoniker on from the woz-woz-here dept.

Thanks to 1UP/Ogamo for its feature discussing the early importance of the Apple Macintosh as a videogaming platform. The author argues: "The Mac definitely left its mark on gaming. Though it never became a gaming powerhouse, it played host to a few legitimate classics, and their ideas went on to influence developers to this day", before referencing titles such as ICOM's Deja Vu ("...has some of the wry sense of humor that [also] brightened up the best of Infocom's games") and Silicon Beach's Dark Castle ("One of the first successful action games to use a mouse for shooting things.")

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  1. Re:Balance of Power? by Colazar · · Score: 2, Funny
    I always thought that was the point...the only way to win is not to play.

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    He decided to just watch the government, and kind of scale it down to size, and run his life that way. --Laurie Anderson
  2. No More by RaisinBread · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks to 1UP/Ogamo for its feature discussing the early importance of the Apple Macintosh as a videogaming platform.

    Whatever its contribution in the past, Apple is a gaming platform no more. As a Mac user and a semi-avid gamer, I really miss one aspect of my old PC - the über availability of games.

    Anyone seen this parody? It's right on the money.

    "The PC is so... so confusing! You go the store and there are like.... racks and racks of games. But on the Mac, there are just six!"

    --J

  3. All these posts by wheresdrew · · Score: 2, Funny

    and nobody mentions the Mac Gamer video from Red vs. Blue? O.o

  4. So... by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... who else in the PC world is stunned that the history of Mac gaming was longer than one page? Heh.

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    "Derp de derp."