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LoneIgadzra
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I recently reformatted an old 400 MHz G3 iMac for use exclusively to play old Mac OS 9 (and earlier) games.
Stuff I'm looking forward to revisiting:
SimCity 2000
Total Annihilation
First three Myst games
F/A-18 Hornet/Korea (okay it is kind of crappy these days as flight sims go, but nostalgia you know?)
Escape Velocity (and other old Ambrosia titles such as Ferazel's Wand)
Glider (actually, isn't Glider Pro freeware now?)
X-Wing (maybe)
Descent 3 (hahaha like this will actually run without crashing)
Majesty
A lot of that list of course had Windows versions, but I never owned the Windows versions and I've been locked out of playing my copies of the Mac versions forever due to the march of time.
Two games that I was really looking forward to are Loony Labyrinth and Crystal Caliburn pinball, but the old versions I have (1.02 and 1.03, respectively - off "Games of fame" CD's) freeze when I try to start them up. I remember there being a workaround for this before I formatted this machine, but I can't remember it and I don't feel like re-buying these games (which is what you have to do to get the patched versions).
The whole situation is pretty rough, since Mac software of this era has been so wholly forgotten by the internet. There is no good Mac OS 9 web browser, and there are precious few resources for patches & the like (currently having a lot of trouble getting TA patched up for example, since the latest patch never left beta AFAIK and has now disappeared off the face of the internet).
Anyway, jump in this thread and share your nostalgia!
Stuff I'm looking forward to revisiting:
SimCity 2000
Total Annihilation
First three Myst games
F/A-18 Hornet/Korea (okay it is kind of crappy these days as flight sims go, but nostalgia you know?)
Escape Velocity (and other old Ambrosia titles such as Ferazel's Wand)
Glider (actually, isn't Glider Pro freeware now?)
X-Wing (maybe)
Descent 3 (hahaha like this will actually run without crashing)
Majesty
A lot of that list of course had Windows versions, but I never owned the Windows versions and I've been locked out of playing my copies of the Mac versions forever due to the march of time.
Two games that I was really looking forward to are Loony Labyrinth and Crystal Caliburn pinball, but the old versions I have (1.02 and 1.03, respectively - off "Games of fame" CD's) freeze when I try to start them up. I remember there being a workaround for this before I formatted this machine, but I can't remember it and I don't feel like re-buying these games (which is what you have to do to get the patched versions).
The whole situation is pretty rough, since Mac software of this era has been so wholly forgotten by the internet. There is no good Mac OS 9 web browser, and there are precious few resources for patches & the like (currently having a lot of trouble getting TA patched up for example, since the latest patch never left beta AFAIK and has now disappeared off the face of the internet).
Anyway, jump in this thread and share your nostalgia!
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So play that like 80 times over
Steam: pazython
edit: And Marathon!
In all seriousness, Marathon is an obvious choice. Spaceward Ho! is a series that I enjoyed thoroughly. Nothing quite like getting my brother to give me all his metal, then destroying his homeworld before it knew it was being attacked (The message he recieved was literally "We were suddenly attacked and annihilated before we had a chance to fight back, we don't have a clue what hit us.") with a fleet of dreadnaughts.
Or moving a massive blob of biological ships around my brother's planets, whereupon they ate ~1 billion people every turn to refuel themselves. Then the next turn his planets had massive baby booms!
And thats just what I do to my allies!
My pinball games started working magically, so that's all good.
I lost my license code for Escape Velocity, but every time I've asked for it Ambrosia has sent me a license code for a bunch of other games and some I don't remember buying - but no EV
Does anyone remember a game called Damage Inc. for Mac? You basically led a squad of Marines on a bunch of missions. It was on the Build engine and was pretty gory.
Actually, Damage, Inc. was based off the Marathon 2 engine.
And hell yes.
EDIT: Doing some reading into it, I had no idea it had "Mandatory Suicide" mode. (Basically, the earliest version I could think of a "Survival" mode, where it'd drop you into one of the multiplayer maps, and would start throwing tons of enemies at you.)
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You can download The Fool's Errand and 3 in Three from this site. (Cliff Johnson, the guy who made them, runs the site and put his games up for free, so there you go.)
Trust me on this one. You will tear your hair out.
But in a fun way.
twitch.tv/Taramoor
@TaramoorPlays
Taramoor on Youtube
is that guy dual wielding mp5's? thats pretty rad
I've been trying to remember what Damage Inc. was for fucking years. I remembered what it looked like and playing it on my little beige mac back in the day when I was a kid and it's been eating at me that I couldn't remember the name, then I come in here, and BAM
There it is.
MAJESTY!
I loved that game. I actually found an issue of PC gamer from like, 1998 with a preview for Majesty when I cleaned my room.
Apparently a sequel is in the works, but I haven't heard much
Castles: Siege and Conquest
Legions
Jesus yes. I've been wanting to do a "game on" of it, but it's not freely available (even though it should be at this point) and I think the community matching services have finally gone offline.
Also, I would lose interest in a day because goddamn I played Myth 2 with my friends every single time we got together for years. Pretty much best LAN game ever. Hilariously fun, runs on a toaster or a supercomputer with the latest OSes, supports TCP/IP between both Mac and PC versions. Everything else we tried either had no Mac version, wasn't cross-platform-multiplayer, had too high system requirements, etc.
That's it! I loved that game, it was so great.
Hmm, never played that one... but looking at the bottom, you have a team of people that you can give commands to, and set waypoints for?
Where have I seen this before (or, more to my point, WOULD see this later on...) Another Mac first!
edit: Speaking of Mac games: back on my old, old Mac Classic there was a game much in the vein of Star Trek, wherein you had a ship and you flew around, landing on planets and so on. It was overhead view only, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called. It was black and white only, but that's where my knowledge stops.
I only played the Demo of Damage Inc. but the fact that you can dual wield shotguns was just full of win.
Does anyone remember a game called Prime target?
Edit:
I think Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri for DOS beat it out.
Maybe Starflight, if the Mac Classic version was black and white only?
3 in Three
Hellcats Over the Pacific
Some kind of robot wars game that I can never remember the name of. I wish someone would remind me.
Got this for .50 at a thrift store a few months back! (windows version though)
still pretty fun!
RoboSport?
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
It's literally been bugging me for years.
oh damn I played this game two and you could dock at the space stations. It was star trek but I have no idea what it was called.
Also the one of my favorite RPG games get Realmz...it also has a PC release
I don't really know how many of these also existed on the PC, probably most of them, but an offhand list of the games we used to have...
Myst
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Any Blizzard Games (Starcraft, Warcraft 1-3, Diablo II, etc..)
Theme Park
Syndicate
Sim Farm
Sim Ant
Sim Tower
Theme Hospitol
Oregon Trail II
Amazon Trail
Odell Down Under
Jewels of the Oracle (weird puzzle game)
Eagle Eye mysteries
ComancheMac
Pirates! Gold
The Seventh Guest
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (about as lame as it sounds)
Populous
Desert Trek
DinoPark Tycoon
F/A 18 Hornet
Mario Teaches Typing
So, to summarize, a hell of a lot of MECC, Maxis, and Bullfrog games. Brings back some memories...
Also though, Spiderweb Software made some great gigantic RPGs. Geneforge and Avernus being their biggies.
The biggies of my youth, off the top of my head:
- 3 in Three
- Dark Castle/Beyond Dark Castle
- Quarterstaff
- Shadowgate
- Xyphus
- Shufflepuck Cafe
- Crystal Quest
- A lot of greats from Inline Design
Also, Transylvania and Cosmic Osmo.
Spaceward Ho!
Escape Velocity
Mars Rising
Simcity 2000
X-Wing
Marathon Durandal
Warcraft 2
And boy, did I hate Myst.
Fuck yes. That was the other commercial game that was based off the Marathon 2 engine.
It was crazy, I remember it involving running around lots of DC government office buildings and building up a body count that'd make Jack Bauer squeamish.
It's not "free", but I remember seeing Myth 2 on Gametap. I'm surprised GoG hasn't gone after it yet.
The official matchmaking's been down for ages, but Mariusnet's still up.
EDIT: Scratch Gametap, apparently they've just got Myth III up.
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The Incredible Machine
TIM was just amazing.
The Digg
Rainbow 6
Rainbow 6 : Rogue Spear
Day of the Tentacle
Monkey Island 1 & 2
The Journeyman Project (like Myst, except you can die! and it had a better story)
Hero's of Might and Magic II
Shadow Warrior
To comment on some of the other great games listed - Damage Inc was goddamn amazing. I'd really kill for an Os X port of this badboy - talk about ahead of it's time! I may come back to this thread as more amazing games come to me.
The game might suck I don't know but I used to love playing back in 95. It was a battlezone ripoff but with 3D objects.
Really? Rainbox 6 was "back in the day?"
That's better. Yes, Spectre was good fun on a Mac. You can call it a battlezone ripoff if you want, but it wasn't just shooting enemies to clear a stage. I was fortunate enough to be able to play this over AppleTalk with 6 other people in our lab in College, late at night when we were done for the day. To this day, I have had few gaming sessions/nights that were as fun as those.
Also, fuck HK's.
And I'll third Dark Castle. That is one game I keep my Mac Classic around for. But, I used to have "return to Dark Castle" (or Beyond Dark castle, or something like that), and all I can remember of that one was there was a section where you had a helicopter back-pack thing and you had to fly over some forests... but I can't even get anywhere near screen shots or downloads for it on the web. I must have been imagining it.