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Mac Games - Indie and otherwise

Mr_GrinchMr_Grinch Registered User regular
edited July 2009 in Games and Technology
So I'm sat here whilst my girlfriend is playing on Sims 3 on the HTPC and I was wondering if anyone could recommend any good games to play on a mac. It's a pretty bog standard Macbook Aluminium, on board graphics (THough nvidia 9400 so not HORRENDOUS), 2gb ram, 2ghz core 2 duo.

I'm really after something pick up and play, that I could plug a joypad in to and have a few minutes blast on. I've been enjoying N but can anyone recommend anything else? Racing, shooting, platforming - anything that doesn't require a vast amount of time putting in (so RPGs are a no no).

Cheers folks.

(Oh and I've completed Cave Story)

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  • Lord YodLord Yod Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Escape Velocity Nova. Top-down space sandbox game. Travel from star to star trading, pirating, exploring, etc. Don't know if it supports a gamepad but the keyboard controls work just fine.

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  • kpeezykpeezy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    World of Goo

    edit: Gamepad only? I'm not so sure now.

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  • bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Braid is available for Mac

    Greenhouse has a few cheap mac game downloads
    http://www.playgreenhouse.com/games

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  • maximumzeromaximumzero I...wait, what? New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Best place to start is macgamefiles.com and hit up the demos section.

    My favorite Mac game back in the day was Deimos Rising

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  • Mr_GrinchMr_Grinch Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    kpeezy wrote: »
    World of Goo

    edit: Gamepad only? I'm not so sure now.

    Bought it on the Wii, didn't realise it was out for Mac so I've now got that too. Thanks!

    I didn't mean gamepad only, sorry, I just meant I have one and I'd quite like to use it.

    Cheers for the other suggestions guys, I've completed Braid on the 360 but that was back when it was released so it may be time for another playthrough.

    I also discovered the Indie thread on here so I've been playing through that (Completed Box man last night, lovely platformer)

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  • areaarea Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    There's an OSX version of Jumpman which I thoroughly enjoyed. As an added bonus, it was made by mcc.

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  • gneGnegneGne Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Warcraft 3 custom games? :)

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