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Title: Mac OS 9 Games
Post by: Carrion Crow on August 08, 2010, 12:29:16 am
There once was a time when I was young. I find it hard to believe myself sometimes but that is the truth I was once a boy and my dad had a room that was out of bounds with a big beige apple mac in it. One day I learnt my times tables off by heart (all the way up to 12 times 12) and as a reward my dad bought me a game called Monkey Shines, developed by a company called Fantasoft.


This was the first colour platformer I ever played. Before then I played prince of persia on a Powerbook 100 (black and white). I wasn't allowed a games console and I didn't manage to get my hands on one until they agreed to let me buy one with my savings in 1998 (I got a PSX with Soviet Strike and Gran Turismo). I was allowed to play games if I did well in my homework and the only games available to me were mac ones.

I think I did well at parents evening one day and they got me Harry The Handsome Executive (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/harry/)


This game revolves around the concept that you are bound to a swivel chair and you have to find the end of each level in a sprawling office complex that becomes more and more surreal as time goes on. The video above doesn't do it justive due to the sound lag in the emulation and the fact that it's the first level but I could upload a better video in future.

I emailed the creators of this game today to see if they could send me my product key so I can register it on the emulated Mac PowerPC I am running on Windows 7 at the moment. It's like stepping back in time to a period where there was no MSN, no social networking and I pretty much went on the computer to create animations or create/play games. We got a PC in 2002 and it all went downhill from there.

Did any of you ever play games on an Apple Macintosh back in the day? Care to share?

I am high on nostalgia.

p.s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eNrXtSqXYU is how I set up my computer to run OS9.
Title: Mac OS 9 Games
Post by: Barack Obama on August 08, 2010, 01:52:35 pm
Escape Velocity
Title: Mac OS 9 Games
Post by: Carrion Crow on August 08, 2010, 02:08:39 pm
Rather tempted by this atm. It would be pointless for me cause I need VS and Matlab on my laptop :(

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Powerbook-15-1-67-G4-High-Res-No-Reserve-/270614820043?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Computing_Apple_Laptops_ET&hash=item3f01e674cb
Title: Mac OS 9 Games
Post by: Barack Obama on August 08, 2010, 03:21:49 pm
Quote from: ed on August 08, 2010, 02:08:39 pm
Rather tempted by this atm. It would be pointless for me cause I need VS and Matlab on my laptop :(

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Powerbook-15-1-67-G4-High-Res-No-Reserve-/270614820043?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Computing_Apple_Laptops_ET&hash=item3f01e674cb
don't bother with a PPC machine if you need to use your computer for anything other than things like webdesign and wordprocessing, the latest version of OSX doesn't support the platform and soon the last version it runs will no longer be maintained so everything will be obsolete unless you want to have some fun and install PPC linux on there.
Title: Mac OS 9 Games
Post by: Carrion Crow on August 08, 2010, 06:05:31 pm
Sound advice from the man, DC.

This is actually one of those nostalgic experiences that isn't disappointing at all. It is still 100% awesome.

Check these out :D


I tried to get Monkey Shines running but it just WSODs on me. Must be some extension problem or something.

Totally loving Harry though.
Title: Mac OS 9 Games
Post by: Avatar on August 17, 2010, 09:20:08 pm
Harry was pretty great.
The only games that stand out to me after such a long time were Escape Velocity and Marathon.  Both awesome games.
Title: Mac OS 9 Games
Post by: dada on October 13, 2010, 10:17:42 am
Man, Mac OS 9 was such a brilliant system. I have two laptops and a number of old desktops that still run it and I actually kind of miss it.

Lots of games and other applications here:

http://www.macintoshgarden.org/
Title: Mac OS 9 Games
Post by: Carrion Crow on October 13, 2010, 10:36:37 am
Holy shit they made Deus Ex for the Mac!?

Edit: I feel deprived now. I could've been playing it all these years (grew up with Macs prior to OSX) and I only completed it last year.

Our last OS9 system was a Mac G4 with ATI Rage GFX. It prolly had 16 or 32 megs of VRAM. It played a mean game of Q3 Arena.

Edit Edit: Tyvm for that link by the way. Great site!

Edit^3: http://www.macintoshgarden.org/games/a-day-at-work play this I remember this!!!! Wonderful Macworld discs.