It was widely ported, and there's also a modern version of the engine, but the Mac version had a couple of little extras: the graphics were upscaled to higher resolution than any other version, and the mid-level save stations actually let you save to a file rather than just act as a checkpoint. A fantastic and challenging game from France, with interesting puzzle/platforming gameplay, rotoscoped animation (meaning super smooth movement), impressive vector cutscenes, and a neat sci-fi plot. The year is 2142, and you find yourself in an alien jungle with a gun and erased memories. There's an OS X remake, and the original game is now freeware. Cool platformer with a lot of exploration, pretty unusual in how destructible the levels are.Ĭentipede-like shooter from Pangaea Software, with abstract pre-rendered shapes for the enemies, plenty of power-ups, and catchy music by Eugene Koh. You're a wizard from a peaceful underground anteater-like race, and shit's about to go down because the goblins and insects are attacking your caverns. Battles are fought in turn-based tactical style, moving each of your characters across the grid to attack enemies and cast spells.
The original versions of the Avernum games, a series of Western RPGs where you create your characters and use skill points to give them abilities. The game's a bit tricky, considering there are red and blue bricks you have to change your ball's color to break, and diamond bricks you can only break when the ball has no color, as well as skull bricks which you must avoid.
Instead of controlling a paddle, you steer the ball as it bounces vertically. A band of cannibals starts a certain distance from you, and you have to make it across the desert before they catch you, but going too fast tires out your camel and you risk getting injured. Events happen randomly as you go, like sandstorms, discovering travelling caravans or trading posts, and getting captured by berbers. You choose whether to travel fast, slow, or rest for each period of the day, and you have to choose when to eat and drink. In this clone of arcade Star Castle, you fly around an evil space station and try to destroy it by blasting through its layers of shields, while avoiding the smart mines it sends out, along with its high-powered plasma gun.Ī simple Oregon Trail-like game where you cross the Gobi Desert on your camel. You play as a heroic pillbug who can curl up to roll around like Sonic for a limited time, or just punch enemies. Simple graphics, but it has modes where you control paddles on the floor and ceiling, or on all four sides of the screen, steering them all with the mouse to keep the ball from going off those sides.ģD platformer featuring cartoon bugs almost like A Bug's Life. The lower the Board Energy is, the faster the walls close in.
The edges of the screen gradually close in, but every round starts with them at full size. A match goes for as many rounds as it takes for the Board Energy to tick down to 0.
Like the light cycle battles from Tron, but you're just steering one of four laser beams, trying to make the others crash before you do. You get machineguns, lasers, lightnings, and even nukes.
As it turns out, Barney is actually an alien, and his shitty TV show is brainwashing the children to prepare the world for an invasion. If you want a Tempest clone for your old Mac, you can't go wrong with this one.Ī silly little casual game, but everyone hates that purple jurassic freak, so it's good. From the dude that made The Fool's Errand.
She has to find her way back to the spreadsheet, solving puzzles in a very Alice In Wonderland story. During a power outage, a number 3 fell off the spreadsheet and into the guts of the computer.