/vr/ - Retro Games

I thought Pathways into Darkness was cool.

Dark Castle is awesome

aside from the obvious Bungie games, I enjoy shufflepuck cafe

>>928494
No it isn't.

LairWare Ultime III port.

>>928494
No it isn't, and that was ported to a lot of things.

I used to play tons of fun little Mac-only games on those Best MacGames CDs. Ambrosia Software usually made cool knockoffs of arcade games with little twists.

This.

Also, my Mac came with Power Pete.

>>928952
Pangea is amazing. My computer came with Budgdom and Nanosaur. Some of the best games I ever played as a child.

>>928604
That was also on amiga.

Escape Velocity and Escape Velocity: Override are both vastly superior to Escape Velocity: Nova, which is the only one in the series that is available on non-Mac platforms. They're shareware, and it's easy to edit values, names, and sprites in them thanks to clever, open design, so you can change things around pretty much however you want when you get bored of the core game. You could do whole new scenarios and factions if you wanted to. They're interstellar exploration and trading games, low on micromanagement and heavy on flavor.

There was also the Glider series of games. Glider is a simple, physics-based (albeit fanciful physics) side scrolling action game where you use air vents and fans to navigate a paper airplane through rooms of a house. Glider 2.x - 4.0 had the best level editor of the series, in my opinion, and was the most fun overall. Somewhere in my parents' garage there's an old Mac Performa 575 with a 110-room custom-made mansion course for that game still on it. Glider PRO, though not quite as fun, is now much easier to find than the older iterations of the original "Glider" title.

>>929002
>Somewhere in my parents' garage there's an old Mac Performa 575 with a 110-room custom-made mansion course for that game still on it.

You should upload that! There aren't that many Glider 4.0 houses around, since they were mainly swapped by floppy and BBS before the web became a major thing. Same deal with Crystal Quest mods.

>>929002
>Escape Velocity
This reminds me to recommend Ares as well.

The Logical adventure of the Zoombinis.

At least, I never got it to work off of anything other than a mac.

A-10 Attack!
the superior sequel, A-10 Cuba! was available for Windows though.

Harry the Handsome Executive

KIll Dr. Cote. Released in the past decade but gameplay is basically Smash TV on one screen, forever.

Amiga-friend here. Bumping the thread to see other Mac-goodies. I love games like Shadowgate and stuff.

>>932934
was shuffle puck mac only? I remember going to my aunts house and she had a big shelf of games for her mac and we would just go through all of them. Shuffle puck was definately my favourite

System's Twilight

>>932934
Muh nigga. I literally just finished playing shadow gate and came here.

Gridz was pretty awesome. You choose a color, and have to build territory around your home base. You have 3 types of bots: Builders (they build nodes, to expand territory), Strikers (they destroy your enemy's bots), and Hackers (they destroy your enemy's territory).

It was always a lot of fun playing against 4 or 5 computer opponents at once, or with a friend.

>>928942
The Mac version was the best one, everything else kind of ruined it.

>>933738
Well it was a pretty crappy game when I played it on my old OS 9 Mac, I can't imagine it could be worse...

All of these.

>>933773
Holy shit. I've totally forgotten about Arashi.

used to play the fuck out of Spectre on my elementary school's computers

>>933703

Shufflepuck was available on many system, even machines like Japanese computers, so no, it isn't mac-only.

holy crap my thread is still up

Unga Bunga!
Yes, this was the only Mac exclusive that I personally enjoyed. Power Pete, here, have a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWWulyr6S1I

>>934836
Dat music!

>>934135
The latest release that's distributed as abandonware includes the source code.

You guys like word munchers?

That Marine discovery thing, wherein you had to navigate a channel using a bathysphere map and use a little submarine to take a photo of a giant squid.

That one.

>>933773
number munchers!!!!

>guies i'm so far, I made it to the (17's)

>>934516
Shufflepuck Cafe was ported to everything, but Shufflepuck wasn't.

http://www.macintoshgarden.org/games/shufflepuck

Darwin's Dillema
Brick Bat
that old wheel of fortune clone id play with the folks
that tetris game featuring some rude announcer

there was a bunch of other freeware on there i wish i could remember

There was a mac game that was a lot like breakout but you had to hit different colored panels with the right color ball and you had to change the color of your ball to do it.

I wish I could remember the name.

Short answer: no.

Maniac, a Pac-Man/Hangman hybrid with soundtrack, power-ups, and timer. Nothing else like it on other platforms as far as I've seen. Also, still available on the author's demon.co.uk site at its original download URL!

Spent hours playing this multiplayer.

>>938448
>>>/g/
>>>/v/

>>938921
>demon.co.uk
Link to it?

>>938932
http://www.macgamefiles.com/item/11426/

Note that the download link will redirect you to the author's site, and the DL url still works even though Alex Metcalf has moved sites since then.

He has received requests to port it to other plats, but he doesn't have the time (and I don't know, but he may not have the original game assets any more either). :(

>>938954
Thank you, anon.

>>938429
Diamonds.

>>938981
Thank you so fucking much, anon! It was driving me insane and you are a lifesaver.

Thank yooooou.

>>938968
Enjoy! This game gives me strong feels about the '90s.

>>938448
>Short answer: I don't know shit

MacBrickout was pretty fucking good. Also anything from Ambrosia or Casady & Greene. Barrack and Step On It haven't been mentioned yet, I don't think.

Mission Firestorm, the sequel to Mission Thunderbolt, was never ported to Windows. Of course it's not really Mac-only because the original games were all on DEC mainframes, but I imagine not many people have played those versions.

It had some cool additions over the first game too.

Steve Jobs never cared about gaming.

Say WHAATTTTT??

>>940673

They didn't cared about Steve Jobs when they threw him away of Apple in 1985.

PYST

>>933773
Spin doctor <3

>>928476
Anything by Ambrosia Software

>>933715

fucking
this

probably my favorite puzzle game ever made.

anyway, seconding spin doctor, power pete, all ambrosia and bungie games, etc.

>>940820

Bumping again. More goodies available on Mac only?

>>941557
Blobbo Lite 1.0.2, sort of like Chip's Challenge.

>>933773
Spectre is awesome.

>>933773
>Spin Doctor
I had forgotten about this one.

>>942491
Don't play the SNES version. It's kinda terrible.

>>942560
I never knew there was one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIWVMUPcFTQ
It doesn't look too bad.

>>941557

here's a fucking treasure trove

http://macintoshgarden.org/

ambrosia has been discussed a bit itt, but nobody's mentioned Cythera- it's basically the mac answer to Ultima VII, if "answer" can be taken to mean "bug-riddled and cripplingly broken total ripoff." it was still great fun, i don't think I had really played a true open-world rpg before this one, and doing small rpg-y things like learning how to bake bread and looting the hell out of areas you weren't able to get into previously really stand out in my memory.

plus it, i dunno, has a pretty cool setting/atmosphere.

>>942575

forgot pic.

Realmz was amazing, loved it to bits.
I'm considering trying to emulate a mac on my PC so I can play all the scenarios for it.

Rescue! by Tom Spreen

Author's Page:
http://members.shaw.ca/tspreen/
Fan Page:
http://www.traud.de/rescue/
Java Remake:
http://rescue.sourceforge.net/

Then there was Star Patrol.

It was the old classic 'Star Trek'-type game turned into a Real-Time-Strategy game.

PPC version: http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Games/Star-Patrol.shtml
68K version: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/star-patrol

I'll just leave this here.

>>944151
>Panic button

Oh man i miss boss/panic buttons. Those need to make a comeback.

>>944389
All modern eroges and sex sims have them.

STEEL FIGHTERS

POWER PETE AND BUGDOM! So many memories from my grandparents house.