Wee I still have StuntCopter as well! My record was level 30 I think.

Dungeons of Doom
Oregon Trail (an old classic but it helped me survive school)


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Figurehead on #ev3 ship of fools.
Kosh was here...

How could I forge tthis classic!!!!!
Argh... I had so much fun saving fluffy bunnies. So when will Power Pete 2 come out. I hope soon... heh


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I might be a Giant.......

Caesar II-That was fun. Roman city-building. Somewhat tempted to freeze the computer, but still fun.

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Hmm? Defense fleet? "What defense fleet? I haven't seen any defense fleet around here. Just radioactive debris."- moi
"If it's not on fire, it's a software problem"-Matthew Burch
Possiby one of the best companies in the world
Ooooooooooh,Ahhhhhhhh!

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Where can I get Dark Castle (drooling)
I LOVE that game!!



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Is this a joke, or are you being serious?

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Sonderlich Die, welche sich "die Guten" heissen, fand ich als die giftigsten Fliegen: sie stechen in aller Unschuld, sie lügen in aller Unschuld; wie vermöchten sie, gegen mich--gerecht zu sein! ... Die Dummheit der Guten nämlich ist unergründlich. -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra (7.19)

I was always a fan of Syndicate -- managing resources, conquering territories, brainwashing, simple search & destroy missions, controlling taxes, and a semi-decent story line made it fun.

EV -- me and my neighbor would play for games on end.

Marathon -- a FPS with a story... it was perfect!

I also had a CD set called MacCube -- it must have contained every shareware and demo written before '97, and there were some really good ones in there -- generally mindless, short, but entertaining anyway.

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There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Does no one remember Armor Alley, one of the first helicopter games? Me and my uncle used to play against each other on our SE/30s ALL the time! Also on the list are Strategic Conquest, Pegleg (freaking awesome!), EV of course, Swoop, Asterax, Lemmings!, and Crystal Quest.

Darth Smurf

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Cheese is w00t

Armor Alley is definitely one of my favorites. Scarab of Ra was good too, but although I spent a fair bit of time playing things like brickles and shufflepuck, I can't say I really liked them that much: they were just the only things that'd run on my Mac Classic! One other game that would, though, is RoboSport, my all-time favorite game (I just been playing a couple rounds on my new Quadra 605!). Another one that nobody mentioned (I don't think) that I used to like alot was Solarian II, which seems to have been the inspiration for some of Maelstrom. Maelstrom, of course, would be my other all-time favorite.

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Well, Doom had a story, but it changed so little it got too redundant for me. The progressing weirdness of the levels. (remember the intestine-covered walls in many rooms? Or the random monster-spitting head at the end? Still can't explain that.)

Marathon's great because the Boomer levels are like one large non-drug induced acid trip.

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Sonderlich Die, welche sich "die Guten" heissen, fand ich als die giftigsten Fliegen: sie stechen in aller Unschuld, sie lügen in aller Unschuld; wie vermöchten sie, gegen mich--gerecht zu sein! ... Die Dummheit der Guten nämlich ist unergründlich. -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra (7.19)

Of course I'm kidding. Though it was a hopeful wish.

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I might be a Giant.......

Could you send me a copy as well? Thanks.

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What's it like to have buttered toast for brains?

Lode Runner: I loved this game so much, I used to play it on my little 512k and make maps for hours.

EVO: Not as many memorys, but some.

X-Wing: I used to play this with my friend, and get so pissed at him when he launched a pair of torps into a friendly frigate.

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"I'm gonna drop you like Third Period French!"
-Ocean's 11

[This message has been edited by grunadulater (edited 08-01-2002).]

Doh, how could I forget X-Wing? Anyone actually beat that one mission when you're in a B-Wing and you have to take out the Star Destroyer, without cheating?

Oh, and one more: Pong!

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Cheese is w00t

The Incredible Machine! But I guess it isn't that old.

Now sorry if I'm getting a little off-topic, but going back even farther:

Blue Max on Commodore 64. Did anybody play that one? It was a Mars Rising style scrolling shooter, but you had a biplane and you could drop bombs on cars. It even had 8-bit color back when the mac plus was a glimmer in Steve Jobs' eye. I would still be playing it, but the disc got corrupted.

Ahh, 5 1/4 inch nostalgia.

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Hello

Ahh, I still have 20 of those from my Kaypro IIs...

Alien, for the Kaypro. and Ladders. I don't know of any other game like them, so I can't explain them.

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What's it like to have buttered toast for brains?

Harry The Handsom Executive
Escape Velocity
Swat 2

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Keep what ye c'n git, an' keep what ye ha'e, for that is the wey t' gettin' rich - Old Scottish Commoner Saying - "Mac users are loyal. PC users are stubborn" - The Space Between on converting someone to another OS.
"Every story has an ending." – Auron - Final Fantasy X
The Swamp Web Board | 1300 posts as of 08.02.2002 – 22.20 (12:20 AM ASW time)

Okay.

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"Then you do believe that we are real. You think us capable of not forgiving you. Who would forgive you more readily than your dream?"
"No," the Unbeliever said. "Dreams never forgive."
-Stephen Donaldson,
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever

EV
Glider...ah...

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"When the psychiatrist goes crazy, it's a bad sign."-Harry, Sphere, Michael Crichton
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I remember talking about it in 5th grade, which was 7 years ago.

But, I have a game I adored more than TIM: Widget Workshop. Breadboards for the common idiot, it was. Sadly, my floppy disks have since gone bad, and I can't reinstall it anymore. I miss it so. Can't even find it as abandonware.

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Sonderlich Die, welche sich "die Guten" heissen, fand ich als die giftigsten Fliegen: sie stechen in aller Unschuld, sie lügen in aller Unschuld; wie vermöchten sie, gegen mich--gerecht zu sein! ... Die Dummheit der Guten nämlich ist unergründlich. -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra (7.19)

GLIDER!!! I love Glider!!!

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"I'm gonna drop you like Third Period French!"
-Ocean's 11

MINESWEEPER!!!

I forgot about Glider, and Widget Workshop as well. I still have Widget Workshop on one of my seven computers...

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What's it like to have buttered toast for brains?

Hmm...let's see

First and foremost, Full Throtle!!! By far the best RPG game ever produced, great storytelling, fantastic soundtrack!

EV and EVO. Wow, the originallity...

Munchies
Power Pete
Lemmings
Apache Longbow
Oh yeah, and Shufflepuck...many a happy computing lesson spent playing that...

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"Ever noticed how creationists look really unevolved?"
- Bill Hicks

And now there's Glider Pro...which is starting to become an old mac game, too...
Oh, yeah, Widget Workshop..I was good at that. I once created an immensley complicated machine that pretty much took care of my probability unit for a year...and it was a month. I made the widget so that it could roll a die (with a changeable # of sides) or a coin any number of times and record the results. It did more complicated stuff than that, though. Heh, great company. Maxis, the poor bought-up makers of SimCity. Does anyone notice that the SimCity games have been decreasing in quality and increasing in flash since Maxis was bought up by EA?

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[This message has been edited by Pheonixrising (edited 08-03-2002).]

Wholeheartedly agreed.

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Sonderlich Die, welche sich "die Guten" heissen, fand ich als die giftigsten Fliegen: sie stechen in aller Unschuld, sie lügen in aller Unschuld; wie vermöchten sie, gegen mich--gerecht zu sein! ... Die Dummheit der Guten nämlich ist unergründlich. -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra (7.19)

I would have to say that the games i remember playing the most are:
Shadow Keep
Power Pete
Close Combat (i still play it)

Gotta love close combat... what's better than having a couple of jagpanthers attack a single recon squad?

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Aren't you ripping people off when you give them a penny for their thoughts and they give you their 2 cents?

Colonization-A precursor to Civilization where you have to (surprise, surprise!) colonize the Americas.
EV
Glider-Classic game where you maneuver a glider through various rooms within a house. (Glider pro was good too)

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What did I tell you about making those corny signatures??

I love (and still play) Desert Trek, it's always a fun game. And when EV came out it just completly blew me away. I still play that one too.

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The future is uncertian and the end is always near...

Finally someone mentions it! Did you play the original B+W version or that color remake one?


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Lode Runner and Power Pete were the first mac games I ever played. Power Pete was awesome! Getting those keys and saving the bunnies! Lode Runner was fun, but it got old after a while.
Syndicate is probably my favorite game of all time, barring SimCity 2k. I feel sorry for both Bullfrog and Maxis, for getting boughtup by EA.
Apeiron was the first Ambrosia Game i ever played, and I was addicted to it and its psychedelic shrooms.

To all those disappointed in Maxis' performance under EA, SimCity 4 looks like it might redeem 3000! Those graphics are sweet (unlike 3000), and I think the intricacies of the visual feedback will give cities a unique feel, rather than the genericness of the previous games. Hopefully the game will look back more to 2000 in the micomanagement of the city, rather than make it into "The Sims: Playground" or something.

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"Cheating is nothing that can't be smoothed over by intense and highly aerobic lying." --Andy Ihnatko

Those were the days...

I remember playing Pitfall and Aztec on our old Atari... that doesn't work anymore, though...

As for mac games though, I must think back to our old Mac SE...

Let's see, there was Scarab of Ra (as others have said VERY cool game), Space Bubbles, Missle Command, Ashes, Wheel of Fortune (I love the way Pat goes "quack!" or something like that when there are no vowels left ), and of course Sim City and Sim Ant.

And who can forget playing around with HyperCard? I remember Dad got all kinds of stuff for HyperCard on White Knight...

For extra points, who else remembers any of this...???

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Rene Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am."
Does this mean that people that don't think are not?

w00t! I have all of those on my SE30! Manhole was the light of my life back in the day...

And I still play Scarab of Ra. I beat it in three levels. Space Bubbles was always kinda strange, but Missile Command and Ashes...There is no equal.

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Wow.. it seems like most things have been mentioned, not to mention a lot that I had forgotten about!

Shufflepuck was good on the Classic, but anything faster made it pretty much impossible!
Armor Alley was great for the strategy, and got insanely hard in the later levels.
... and a lot of others could be mentioned again .
Pathways into Darkness, and of course, all of the Marathon trilogy and all of EV!

And the only ones that I haven't seen mentioned yet would be Fury of the Furries, Infotron and Vette.. ringing any bells? .

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I never liked Pathways. Marathon was better.

Has Power Pete been mentioned yet?

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Hmm... the puzzle-style of Pathways was quite appealing I found, but of course I never finished it without the help of the sites around the place. I would never have found out about even walking through the wall for the blue crystal without the help ! But yes, Marathon was better - less thought, better graphics (who needs better than that?), far more options and communication of the storyline, albeit vague as anything .

Also thought of a couple more: Pirates - interesting ideas but got hard and boring before too long; and Warlords I and II - how could I forget.. they have probably accounted for more gaming hours than any others for me - interesting ideas and somehow they didn't get boring :0. It's just a shame that they (SSG) dropped support for Mac after that, so we'll likely never see one for OS X .

Where can I get stunt copter?



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Shdow keep all the way!! and scrab of Ra! i actually played that just yesterday, and shadow keep too!

SKchick, may be wise to check the date of the topic your posting in .

EV
Prince of Persia 1 & 2
Space Madness
Lunatic Fringe
Cyclone
Starbound
Strategic Conquest

That was indeed one of the better games in existance. And I actually managed to dig up a CD of it, too bad Classic SUCKs so it doesn't play well.

I liked the first version the most. It is great. I have version 5 somewhere, and I think they are on version 7. It's getting more complicated and less fun each time.
Woot for 5.25 inch floppies.


I forgot that until you mentioned it, but that is one of the better "old mac games" out there. I totally loved it. Did freak me out at times, though.


I can't belive nobody said Pegleg!
Of course, my favorite is Riven.

I think it is fine that this topic was dug up. It's better than making a new one. I think it is good to bring up a topic like this for all to see. It's cool. I like to look at what people said here. It's not against what the "no gravedig" rule is there to prevent. It is not bringing up some long dead useless topic that answered some question that was in the FAQ anyway. This is a valid discussion/brainstorm that people would like to see.

Shufflepuck Cafe. Lode Runner. Cythera. Sim Ant. Sim Tower. Escape Velocity. Marathon(s). Round 'n Round. There were these games called Treasure Mountain, Treasure Cove, and Space Treasure (or something like that.) Those were educational games. Reader Rabbit. Millie's Math House. Bailey's Book House.

Kid Desk!!!! I remember outsmarting my mom and entering the code and putting Marathon on my Kid Desk.

Myst
TimeLapse
Flashback (does Conrad die in the last cut-scene or just put himself in some kind of stasis?)
Alone in the Dark
Myth: The Fallen Lords
Dinopark Tycoon
SimAnt, SimTower, SimEarth, SimCity2k

Ah, the memories. Great game, that was. I still have access to it, come to think of it.

Along with Mac Garden, http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchi...perArchive.html is an ok site for old games.

I forgot about DinoPark Tycoon! That was the best!

I also forgot Ultima III and Taskmaker.

Barrack
EVO
Marathon inf
Myth TFL
Starcraft
Unreal tournament

I do not really remember older games really well. I played flashback, and I loved Power Pete for a while. I also remember Full Throttle. But none of these stuck in my mind like any of the above.

Dude, there's an OS X patch. Not to mention a plug-in version for Myth 2. It's really rather nice to be able to play TFL with units that remember their formations.

Now for my list, since I don't think I ever posted to this topic. I think I'll stick to all the System 7+ gaming I did, prior to getting a 400 Mhz iMac ~5-6 years ago, to make it easier, since I played a lot of old games after getting that computer that I really should have got to before. This would be stuff I played on a 75 MHz PowerMac 7200.

- Reliant. It was like a typical top-down space game, but with a very Star Trek flair. You do missions, upgrade your ship, pick crew members, and so forth. It was really hard though.

- I'm going to get it out of the way right now: Any Ambrosia game, especially EV/EVO. (Well, EVO mainly I guess.) The only ones I played exclusively after 500 MHz became commonplace were Diemos, Pop-Pop, and EVN. Because they made some of the best games in the days of <100 MHz, I am a poster on this forum today.

- Descent. Seriously, some great times were had playing LAN games of Descent. And it was kinda epic and creepy, navigating through endless bizarre mine shafts with crazy robots.

- Glider Pro. "Slumberland" was an epic. I can probably still beat it too... but I never found more than 3/4 of the rooms.

- F/A-18 Hornet. Actually, this came to mind first, when I first started thinking about this list. A lot of people have mentioned X-Wing, and while I probably loved that game more and played it more, Hornet evokes the most nostalgia for some reason. Too bad the later sequels have failed abysmally to bring the series into the modern era (though I still do love me some Korea).

- Crystal Caliburn / Loony Labyrinth pinball. Too bad I have to buy them again if I want to play in OS X.

- Rebel Assault. Low-res ported from DOS bummer that it may have been according to Mac User, it was my first CD game as a kid and I loved it. Actually, it still seems like a very fun game if I play it today. Some good atmosphere. Rebel Assault 2 not so much though. Leastways, the demo sucked.

I played both of 'em and liked both. I remember thinking that Rebel Assault 2 had amazing graphics, for its time at least.

Descent 1 & 2. Damn amazing, and with OpenGL they still look great. I only wish I owned them. 2 was insanely great. I don't think I ever beat either one

EV/O: I wouldn't be here otherwise. One of the greatest games you could play on a Quadra.

Myst: Awesome. Nearly endless, too, if you played it as a kid. Wonderful environment.

Lemmings: Honestly, who hasn't played some incarnation of this?

Oregon Trail: Holy crap, someone got bitten by a snake!

Snood: Addictive. Hard. Snood.

Yipe: An awesome RPG. Really hard to get into, but I loved it.

You can still buy those? Like, at all? ###### YEAH!


I forgot A-10 attack. That probably holds the most memories, technically, although it wasn't my favorite (despite being reminded of all the other ones, Riven is still my favorite).

The Incredible Machine. I loved that game. Barrack and Harry also hold memories. Power Pete, baby!