Classic Macintosh Games

Just going to focus on ones available over the networks. (Freeware, Shareware, and commercial Demos)

(Should I include commercial recommendations so people can avoid wasting money?)

Classic Macintosh Games

• Solarian, of the Space Invaders/Galaxian genre. (Requires 640x480 display with 256 colors)

• Maelstrom, a great update of Asteroids. (Requires display with 256 colors)

• Bolo "Bolo is a 16 player graphical networked real-time multi-player tank battle game."

• Chiral, from the author of Maelstrom. You will wish you had paid more attention in chemistry class. (Requires display with 256 colors)

• Arashi, a Macintosh version of Tempest. Uses a nice graphics engine. (Requires display with 256 colors)

• Marathon, an awesome texture-mapped (like Doom) game, with a rich plot, a real physics model, and network head-to-head play capabilities (great for releasing frustration at the end of the day).
  (Requires 640x480 display with 256 colors)

• Realmz, an RPG which has generated a lot of excitement. (Requires 640x480 display with 256 colors)

• RoboWar

Classic Games on the Mac

• Galaxian: Solarian (Requires 640x480 display with 256 colors)

• Asteroids: Maelstrom (Requires 640x480 display with 256 colors)

• Centipede: Apeiron (Requires 640x480 display with 256 colors)

• Tempest: Arashi Uses a nice graphics engine. (Requires 640x480 display with 256 colors)

• Star Castles: Cyclone

• Q-bert: Bert

• Zork! The original MIT version (and the The Encyclopedia Frobozzica).

• Adventure, the large, 550-point version of the Colossal Cave Adventure

• Tetris (Any other suggestions for best tetris version?)

• Rogue

• Solitaire Till Dawn

• Mille Bornes

• Risk

• Solitaire: Klondike

• CoreWar

Other Web Sites

Mac Arcade Game List

Wonderng what might be a modern day equivalent of that old coin-op arcade game?

December 31, 1995 - Robert Lentz (ralentz@ralentz.com)