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G5 iMac To Come With Marble Blaster Gold

Posted by timothy on from the addictive-little-games-rule-the-world dept.

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!"

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  1. Err... wrong person? by dalabrat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Umm.... that would be Jeff Tunnell of Dynamix / Tribes fame. Jay Moore never worked for Dynamix, nor had anything to do with Tribes. But he along with the other guys at GarageGames are all great people.

    1. Re:Err... wrong person? by venicebeach · · Score: 4, Informative

      Actually, I think he did.

      This is from an interview with Jay Moore.

      Jay Moore - Marketing Director for GarageGames Jay's wildly diverse background includes serving as Marketing Director for a computer magazine publishing company, Sales and Marketing Director for a K-12 educational software distributor, and President of a small advertising design firm. Jay started his gaming career with "The Even More Incredible Machine!" when he took the game into the classroom. Jay worked to bring all the Sierra educational games into the educational channel. Then worked with Dynamix in 1997 to successfully launch category-creator "Driver's Education." Jay joined GarageGames in July of this year. He has a BS is Biblical Studies and lives in Eugene, Oregon.

    2. Re:Err... wrong person? by GarageGamer · · Score: 5, Informative

      Well ok... I lived in Eugene, would work out of the Dynamix office (although I never had a desk), I actually was employed by Sierra Online in Bellevue (recently closed), but always as a 'hired gun' my work for other clients at my design firm kept me from signing any 'you own my every thought and idea' employment contract.

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      Independent game developers because we WANT TO BE... not because we're wannabes.
  2. Cool! by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now nobody can complain about the Mac having no games. Between this and the puzzle-thing they are re-introducing in Tiger, the Mac now has both shoot-em-up and strategy games covered!

    1. Re:Cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      I threw together a quick list of Mac games. Not that you care, I know you just went for the quick and cheap "funny" karma points by repeating one of the oldest jokes on Slashdot. But there are games, enough to keep a causal gamer like me happy.

      Coming soon:

      Doom 3
      Homeworld 2
      Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

      Notable titles released over the past year or so:

      Republic
      James Bond 007: NightFire
      Battlefield 1942: Deluxe Edition
      America's Army: Special Forces 2.1
      Black Hawk Down
      The Sims: Makin' Magic
      TRON 2.0
      XIII
      Medal of Honor: Breakthrough
      Call of Duty
      LOTR: The Return of the King
      Dark Horizons: Lore
      No Limits Roller Coaster Simulation
      Command & Conquer: Generals
      Unreal Tournament
      Nanosaur 2: Hatchling
      Northland Strategy & War
      Law & Order: Dead on the Money
      Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
      Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
      Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
      Shadowbane: The Rise of Chaos Adventure
      Halo: Combat Evolved
      Ghost Master
      Age of Mythology
      No One Lives Forever 2
      WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne
      Shadowbane
      Warrior Kings
      Neverwinter Nights

  3. i belive the title of the game is actully ... by rhino_badlands · · Score: 5, Informative

    i belive the title of the game is actully ... "Marble Blast GOLD", not marble blaster gold.

    but who cares still cool, and those iMacs look nice

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    - MOSKIE
  4. also! by focitrixilous+P · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It comes with Nanosaur 2!

    God knows how many hours we wasted in computer tech on nanosaur when my Jr. High got a shipment of orange iMacs. Until the teacher wised up and deleted the game on every computer.

    Yeah, it's kind of old, but I loved that game in Jr. High, and I'm glad to see it's still around. It even has split screen multiplayer! Rocking good mac game, Nanosaur.

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    SAILING MISHAP
  5. Geee... by shfted! · · Score: 4, Funny

    First it's GarageBand. And now it comes with Garage Games. What next? Is Apple going to return to building computers in the garage?

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    He who laughs last is stuck in a time dilation bubble.
  6. Funky color? by watanuki · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. Quite a few errata in this post... by alexandyr · · Score: 5, Informative

    The title of the game is Marble Blast Gold, not Marble Blaster. Jay Moore is a GarageGame employee and head of marketing, but the company is run by Jeff Tunnell, former head of Dynamix, as noted by alabrat above. The game WAS at one point released under the title Marble Blaster in its windows-only retail boxed version by eGames, whose marketing department thought the "er" made it more appealing or somesuch. More info on this story and Marble Blast for Xbox available here.

  8. Re:Plenty of games by merdark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, that's four games more than I can play on Linux! Awesome!

  9. Re:Proof the mods are insane. by DAldredge · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have gotten only one email for my political and antiabortion stance. I have gotten dozens of posts from /. apple fantics.

    They are insane.