Did you ever play "The Colony" very underated FPS for the SE. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colony_(video_game) the game is really good. its like proto Halflife....
Never saw Lunar Rescue. Very cool. Feathers and Space is a new one too. Got a Phoenix (arcade game) vibe. Continuum, very cool (very hard). Oids sort of kicked its ass some years later. Moria or some other rogue-like would be on my list of compact-Mac games. And any number of solitaire games (example: Baker's Dozen).
Bolo only came with one map, and map editors existed - some of those could procedurally generate a map but that wasn't built into Bolo. Definitely a great recommendation though, Bolo was fantastic.
at 3:35, i am not that impressed by this one, seemed like a 70s style arcade game, in 1985, a friend of mine owned a mackintosh, which was about $8000, his father was an electric engineer, he could pay $50 for a game that had story and exploration and fight, which was so impressing. now known as rpg.
Continuum and Arkanoid has been one of my very favorite games along with Beyond Dark Castle to play on my Macintosh Plus at home. While being black and white, that does not change the fact that so much fun can be had. :3
Thanks for the suggestions. I have a Mac SE/30 and have been looking for recommended games for it. I didn't have one at the time, so I didn't know what was good and I think all your suggestions are new to me so I'll be sure to try them.
Absolutely loved Continuum back in the day. Some of the craziest custom maps ever with drawings and the enemy firing rates cranked up to 11. I'd love to know if you ever played Bolo.
@@insanelygruz I recall some sort of PPC and a laptop were used. Me and my brother would duke it out and also had a ton of Bolo brains (CPUs) playing too. Wild times.
Mac vs IBM lore goes deep LOL Continuum for Mac is very cool! Continuum (aka alpha waves) for DOS is a very different game. Hey I remember playing BUGS.
I loved Lunar Rescue. I spent hours and hours playing it back around 1991 until I beat it. You could save your game as a file so you can just make a bunch of copies of your progress until you make it to the next base, that’s how I did it. I played Mac Bugs too but not heard of the others you have mentioned. I’ll need to check them out.
Great video! I really enjoyed this look at some of these original Mac classic games. It’s inspiring to see the level of detail and gameplay that was made possible at the very birth of the platform.
Как же приятно знать что есть те, кому так же нравятся старые игры для Mac. Очень много эксклюзивов о которых не говорят. Да и система не особо популярная. И зря, очень годная система! Groovy
Awesome recommendations! Lunar Rescue is new to me, but I already like how you shoot in the same direction as your thruster. Oids used the classic shooting direction, which always made things awkward as you had to rotate to point your nose down to shoot at enemies and hopefully you've planned enough time to point the nose back up to thrust and avoid the terrain... MacBugs ... I never got the hang of aiming in either "normal" or "cowardly" mode. It would have been better to use keyboard controls to rotate aim. Just a couple keys to rotate left/right by 45 degrees. Oh well.
Hope this video helps you find new games! I'll have more recommendations in the future so make sure to subscribe if you haven't already! :)
Did you ever play "The Colony" very underated FPS for the SE. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colony_(video_game) the game is really good. its like proto Halflife....
Never saw Lunar Rescue. Very cool.
Feathers and Space is a new one too. Got a Phoenix (arcade game) vibe.
Continuum, very cool (very hard). Oids sort of kicked its ass some years later.
Moria or some other rogue-like would be on my list of compact-Mac games. And any number of solitaire games (example: Baker's Dozen).
Dude! Lunar Rescue looks great! And the artwork is fantastic!
The black-and-white hi-res graphics certainly gave Mac games a unique look you didn't see on other systems.
"Bolo" - a birds-eye-view tank game with procedurally generated maps
Bolo only came with one map, and map editors existed - some of those could procedurally generate a map but that wasn't built into Bolo.
Definitely a great recommendation though, Bolo was fantastic.
@@3rdalbum before each game, the player enters a numerical value for "density", then the map is generated, procedurally, based on that input.
at 3:35, i am not that impressed by this one, seemed like a 70s style arcade game, in 1985, a friend of mine owned a mackintosh, which was about $8000, his father was an electric engineer, he could pay $50 for a game that had story and exploration and fight, which was so impressing. now known as rpg.
Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing!!! Yesterday was my birthday!!! I was waiting for a video so long
Continuum and Arkanoid has been one of my very favorite games along with Beyond Dark Castle to play on my Macintosh Plus at home. While being black and white, that does not change the fact that so much fun can be had. :3
Thanks for the suggestions. I have a Mac SE/30 and have been looking for recommended games for it. I didn't have one at the time, so I didn't know what was good and I think all your suggestions are new to me so I'll be sure to try them.
Great suggestions. I’ll need to try them out. Looking forward to PowerPC games too.
Thank you for the Nostalgia 🙋♂💗🙋♂
Man... Continuum take me back.. I was like 6 years old when I tried to play it
Great list! Love these videos. Continuum is my favourite but it has issues running on non 68000 machines.
Great video with suggestions for games I wasn't aware existed and I thought I had seen them all in those years!
Something so charming about the 1bpp chunky pixel aesthetic of Mac games from this era
these look like cool games, i have played Mac Bugs before, not sure if i still have it. also played Continuum, i think it had an editor too
Great video! These all look fun. Retro gaming is like comfort food. Perfect for a sleepy afternoon.
Always love to hear about good B&W mac games I didn't know about!
Absolutely loved Continuum back in the day. Some of the craziest custom maps ever with drawings and the enemy firing rates cranked up to 11. I'd love to know if you ever played Bolo.
I used to play Bolo on my SE/30 back in the day but I was always so bad at it! 😄
@@insanelygruz I recall some sort of PPC and a laptop were used. Me and my brother would duke it out and also had a ton of Bolo brains (CPUs) playing too. Wild times.
Spent so much time on Continuum. The author's released the source online
Mac vs IBM lore goes deep LOL
Continuum for Mac is very cool! Continuum (aka alpha waves) for DOS is a very different game.
Hey I remember playing BUGS.
I played a lot of Continuum on DOS too! Was one of the 10 or so boxed DOS games I owned back in the 90s! 👍
Great vid. Would love to see Mission Starlight in this series.
Could you stop talking? Please
what about princes of percia
Great video. Keep it coming!
Thanks. Nostalgic.
please do some more of this, this is awesome. i'm particular to the later colour games but these are appreciated as well : )
Absolutely, I'll cover some color games too at some point! 👍
I loved Lunar Rescue. I spent hours and hours playing it back around 1991 until I beat it. You could save your game as a file so you can just make a bunch of copies of your progress until you make it to the next base, that’s how I did it. I played Mac Bugs too but not heard of the others you have mentioned. I’ll need to check them out.
I now wonder if anyone sent some beer to the devs of Continium
I read that people did indeed send in beer! Even all the way from Japan!
Great video! I really enjoyed this look at some of these original Mac classic games. It’s inspiring to see the level of detail and gameplay that was made possible at the very birth of the platform.
Thanks Steve! 😁 I agree - a lot of these games are really well thought out. And amazing what some folks can do with those 1-bit graphics!
Как же приятно знать что есть те, кому так же нравятся старые игры для Mac.
Очень много эксклюзивов о которых не говорят. Да и система не особо популярная. И зря, очень годная система!
Groovy
Awesome recommendations! Lunar Rescue is new to me, but I already like how you shoot in the same direction as your thruster. Oids used the classic shooting direction, which always made things awkward as you had to rotate to point your nose down to shoot at enemies and hopefully you've planned enough time to point the nose back up to thrust and avoid the terrain...
MacBugs ... I never got the hang of aiming in either "normal" or "cowardly" mode. It would have been better to use keyboard controls to rotate aim. Just a couple keys to rotate left/right by 45 degrees. Oh well.
Fantastic video Gruz. I'd love to see more like this. So much imagination in these early games, Lunar Rescue in particular.