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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. Bolo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    BOLO!

    http://www.lgm.com/bolo/

    or if your a Windows/Linux user:

    http://www.winbolo.com/

  2. Mouse Stampede! by spitzak · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yep, I was working in the software industry when the Mac came out, and the first thing my company did was make a game. They did this millipede ripoff in about 1 month, and if I remember right the major portion of the budget was spent on designing and printing the packaging. However it certainly used the mouse, and it would be difficult or impossible to duplicate Millipede so well on a mouse-less MSDOS machine.

    You can try it on a Mac here: Mouse Stampede

    Jason Linhart wrote the game, but I got the job of drawing most of the icons. I'm particularily proud of the swiss cheese, it's pretty hard to draw something legible in a 16x32 space in two colors!

  3. Two words: by rbanzai · · Score: 2, Informative

    Shufflepuck Cafe

    My God, did I play alot of Shufflepuck Cafe. I worked in a Software Etc. where we had a Mac Plus on display and that game got me through many a long, customer-free shift.

    I can still hear the big, scary, fat dude that was the last opponent laughing at me when he got the puck past me. :)

  4. Re:I just started playing mac games last night by BTWR · · Score: 2, Informative
    Some reommendations from when I had an LCII (a 16mHz/4mb RAM machine):

    King's Quest 5

    Civilization

    Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis

    Sim City

    Quest for Glory 1

    Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (Deluxe)

    3 in Three (a GREAT puzzle game for 10-14 y/o)

  5. Acutally that was an Apple II game by Farmbubba · · Score: 3, Informative

    called Rescue Raiders, one very cool thing that the Mac version had was network play!

  6. Re:And let us not forget... by gmhowell · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe the poster is thinking of the original Castle Wolfenstein? Yeah, it's a stretch...

    --
    Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
  7. Re:What was that *very* old game... by Creepy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Continuum

    Brian Wilson (one of the authors) even posted the source

    One of my old faves, as well.

  8. Indie games for Mac by DruggedBunny · · Score: 2, Informative
    This is admittedly a little spammy, but very relevant, so here goes...

    Blitz Max, a variant of Blitz Basic comes out on OS X in a couple of months' time, meaning a small but growing army of coders should be putting stuff out for the Mac soon (especially since they just have to recompile the code they've already written for Windows -- no port costs to worry about).

    Gallery of stuff created with Blitz