G5 iMac To Come With Marble Blaster Gold

Ophelea writes "Anyone who knows Jay Moore of Tribes fame may know about his great company Garage Games. Today it was announced that Marble Blaster Gold, one of their best games was bundled on the iMac G5. Woot! Go Go Garage Games!"

Comments

Re:Funky color?

[sg3000]

> I first read the title as "G5 iMac to come in marble blaster
> gold" and thought Apple was going back to making funky-
> colored computers.

No kidding. Dammit, Apple! Do you know how many types of iPods you'll have to develop and sell to live down the 'Flower Power' iMac? Don't do this to yourself again.

Games on Mac

[CaptainPinko]

I think what kills Macs for gamers is not the amount of games for Mac, but probably individual specific games themselves. For example Doom 3 for Mac may be great and all but all I really want is Mechwarrior 4, Civilisation 3, Morrowind, and Empire Earth. I mean there are tons of other games out there but I'm tied to those. I'm betting that for most people like list would include Counter-Strike/Day of Defeat/Half-Life, and Half Life 2. I mean how many people just play CS? Actually, come to think of it it might be in Apple's best interest to get Valve to port their engine to Mac since CS is a scary *HUGE* deal for a lot of people (yes I realise that it is unfeasible since Source is Direct X base IIRC). So the argument is not really about whether Mac has games, but whether Mac has the games people want.I'd be interested to be a list of the games people want by percentage and compare that to your availibility list.

Also another thing is that Mac ports come out later. People can't wait for games to come out and they don't want to wait longer. For example Doom 3 was huge and all the rage, but now most people I know have beat it (myself included) and are kinda bored of it. By the time it comes out for Mac it will be passe.

None the less, unless new versions of the games I mentioned come out soon and force me to upgrade my next computer will be a Mac.