I have been trying to remember the name of spacestation pheta periodically for nearly 20 years now. Thanks for this video... I can finally move on lol

Never used a Mac, so this was interesting to see and compare with versions I know from other systems like the Amiga. The Dark Castle games, Prince of Persia and Spectre caught my attention here.

Sweet! I didn't know there were 68k versions of Gauntlet, Defender, and Star Wars. That's fantastic. Thanks Gruz!

@RetroDawn

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they were released on the 68K Atari ST and Amiga first.

I played exactly half (25) of those games! I remember playing these games on my dad's Mac Plus in the 1980s and 1990s.

@illarionbykov7401

Ай бұрын

I played 17. This video missed the most original and memorable Mac game--Balance of Power

I was always impressed with early 68K Mac games. There was something inviting and creative to their 1bit graphics.

Such memories... I missed playing these on my school's computer

Love stuff like this. There's always a bunch of things I've never seen or heard before, I'm definitely going to give The Lawn Zapper and Lunar Phantom a go. Great vid!

Again, good stuff, Gruz!

Excellent vid idea! Downloading now from Macintosh Garden and firing up the SE and SE/30

Fantastic collection of games and well done putting it together so nicely! I’ve played over half of the games, and definitely found some new (to me) games that I’m going to fire up in the coming days. 😃

from a technology limitation perspective some of these pretty impressive

The end-of-round sound effect from Slide Invaders says it all: "GOOD!" Actually, this was "GRRRRREAT!" ...So many great memories playing many of these games.

Pretty impressive really. Sure it was black and white without gray-scales, but there's still a lot of detail, fast and smooth movement, and fantastic audio.

Man, this takes me back. The first computer I properly used were a bank of Macintosh Pluses we had in school, and an LC520 when it was our turn. Played so much Hangman and Banzai on those things.

@jasonscibby3362

2 жыл бұрын

My brother had a Macintosh Plus when I was really young. Some of the first games I ever played were on that thing. Needless to say, I was beyond excited when I found out my middle school ran their whole library catalog on them. We also had the Apple][ for after class gaming in our shop and science labs, until mostly everything got replaced with Gateway PCSs and Windows 98 when I was in 7th grade. What a time to grow up with technology...

very cool to see these, i do have a few, but not a whole lot, never seen many of these, thanks for the video :)

There were some great strategy games for the compact Macs that deserve a video.

Watching this unlocked SO many memories! I used to play these on my parents' old Mac Plus back in the day. I thought i was the only one in the world who remembered Cairo Shootout!

Happy to see so many of Ingemar's games here

Rad, thanks for this!

Pararena lives in my head rent free for all time.

Excellent list of games. I would have included Let's get Tanked, Apache Strike and Bird Race. I would have went with Chessmaster over Battlechess.

That brings back some memories wow

So so many memories!

i wanna stream some of these old games i grew up playing...what's the best way to go about it? Are these available to play online? Or is it by emulation only?

Needs some Oregon Trail included. Also: A-Train (what sim city 2000 would look like on compact mac). And don't forget Apache Strike.

I love how Macbugs is a combination of Asteroids and Centipede.

Dirt Bike looks like a dad of those Flash-based browser games.

I miss the good old days when gaming was simple

Excellent.

That is awesome! Used to play so many of these games as a child, and still think there's nothing that's ever come even close to Dark Castle! ;) So wish I could still play RTDC! :( Anywho, for a while I've been trying to remember one that was about some kind of a spaceship that had to go through some obstacles, IIRC, and it kinda looks like Spectre at 13:44, but I don't think that was it (and it's most probably not Star Wars). Would you have any idea…? Thanks!

@Nullscr1pt

7 ай бұрын

There is fully remade color dark castles for mac and pc

@jmpalacios

7 ай бұрын

@@Nullscr1pt I'm very well aware ;) I became addicted to Return To Dark Castle, and have been mourning it every since I lost the capability of running 32-bit apps 😭😭😭

I forgot all about the trauma of Shadowgate!!!!! A lot of these were my jam, along with Apache Strike, Hardball, Mac Attack, and The Ancient Art of War.

Dark Castle & its sequel look cool !

Shuffle Puck Cafe I remember very well. The schools I went to back in 91', traded in their Apple II's for the Macintosh LC II's. Shuffle Puck Cafe, is what we kids, were fighting to play on the computer, along with Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago?

Surprised that Continuum wasn't included, I remember playing that on an old B&W Mac. Lots of classics here though.

@9:49 i see a bunch of references in all these games is that the rocket for Team Rocket in pokemon ??? 😂

Glider was the first game to reveal how emotionally dysregulated I was. LOL

What a nostalgia bomb! I still remember all the silly sound effects from Dark Castle, decades later. Ever stranger is how much this first generation of Mac games took from the world of Apple ][ gaming. This included some direct ripoffs of stuff I'd only seen there. Not to mention all the rebranded popular arcade games. (and Cosmic Osmo is what launched the company that hit it big with Myst. I think Myst: Uru even called it out as a wearable T-shirt.)

I remember playing a later, more polished version of MacSlots. It was probably from a different developer because the one shown in the video is spelled differently (MAc SLOTS). Does anyone know why the "c" was the only letter that was lowercase? Was that random or did it mean something?

@insanelygruz

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed that too... Very strange. I think I must have played an early version here. The retail release had a stylized logo in that spot.

Will you cover exclusive Macintosh games from the golden era of Quick Time ... i mean adventures like "Pantos Story" or other similar like "Derrat Sorcerum" ... or the Japan Side that was big into Mac gaming making Unique adventure games only available on Mac ... or are you only focusing on 1bit era of Mac gaming ?

@insanelygruz

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't played those games but I wouldn't rule out anything. The 1bit games were my fav tho! 😁

Though it looks basic, that version of loderunner is a legit god tier game.

dark castle, absolute legend

I’m incredibly upset that this doesn’t have Oxyd! OTOH you included Glypha and Slime Invaders, so I’m beyond placated 😅

@RetroDawn

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, yes, Oxyd! That was ported from the Atari ST. Has an interesting history and legacy, that game series.

@nevyn

2 жыл бұрын

@@RetroDawn what, it was a port‽ all this time I was convinced it was a Mac native…

So many hours playing load runner 😎

My childhood in a video!

which is the game were the plane flies in speed bombing continuously ..? that and glypha my childhood

I'm looking for the name of the game (in black and green) where the little golden man search for parts, on Mac in 1984...

more games please :)

Great video. Who said the Mac didn't have games.

Somehow I went all my life without knowing there was a B&W version of Spectre! Or I forgot, I guess.

hello friend, where can i get the roms in dks

It's genuinely _impressive_ just how much they were able to get out of those old machines. Even in black and white, some of those games just perform far better than they seem like they should. Modern devs could hope to do as well with far more, lol.

@mikecrane2093

2 ай бұрын

My Macintosh Plus: A black and white screen, 9" monitor, 1MB to 4MB of RAM, 68000 processor running at almost 8MHz. And a single button mouse - no joystick, though I am sure they were available from some 3rd party vendor. Most (all?) of these games could be loaded from a 800KB floppy. The games were simple, yet fun.

there’s a game i faintly remember playing as a kid and i can’t for the life of me find it anywhere online. you’d control a ball and get from point A to B to complete a level. there were obstacles you’d avoid like pits, spikes, etc. as you progressed you’d control more balls all simultaneously. does anybody know what this might be? maybe i’m a generation off? and i’m questioning that because i remember using paint a lot and that had color.

@Doogsonai

7 ай бұрын

I bet that was Oxyd. Some other commenters mentioned it too, it was a great puzzle game.

@basillane1130

7 ай бұрын

holy shit that's it@@Doogsonai

Does anyone one know the name of this particular Mac game? I don't remember the title screen, just the opening which shows a guy in a trench coat robbing a bank, then you cut to the chief of police sleeping at a table. I think it's supposed to be some kind of detective game?

Uninvited! Played hours of black castle and shuffle puck. Very titillating hah!

There was a strategy game where you had like big arrows showing up when you attacked enemy land. And I know Kublai Khan was in the game was a character just like in real life. Anyone knows the name of the title?

@tltjapkes

Ай бұрын

Any chance its Ancient Art of War?

@tltjapkes

Ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/kaZmptppdqXLZbA.html

@Nichen

Ай бұрын

@@tltjapkes Sorry its not art of war

who had either Shadows of Mordor or Transylvania?

12:19 The best

Too bad that not all of these run on the LC :(

Some great games in there. When you don't have unlimited RAM, you have to be inventive.

@hicknopunk

2 жыл бұрын

Macs did have all the ram in the world compared to Dos pcs. My Mac Plus had 2.5 megs while my dads 386 dx 25 only had 1 meg and you could not load drivers into high memory.

@RetroDawn

2 жыл бұрын

@@hicknopunk And easy to u/g the Plus to 4MB, just by swapping in 1MB SIMMs.

@hicknopunk

2 жыл бұрын

@@RetroDawn yeah, but they were over $100 a meg then. I was a kid. I had to work a lot to get that ram and a screwdriver

It's a nice video about a nice computer. I have hooked my Macintosh Classic to an SD-card drive, I have some videos about it on my channel

@MsLostboysforever

11 ай бұрын

What’s your channel, as I would love to put an sd card in my SE?

@AndREDraut

11 ай бұрын

@@MsLostboysforever it's AndREDraut, you just have to click on my name

I read Rolf Staflin as Rofl Stalin hahaha

Cool to see Bert on that list! Remember that my maths teacher (also the one resposible for the schools computers) had downloaded it from a BBS and was eager to show us kids. Quite a political game in its own silly way

Dat mac lode runner

Man the sound is just not right when you capture with an emulator though.

@insanelygruz

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, sound emulation in Mini vMac still isn't 100%. One day hope to figure out a way to capture from an actual compact Mac!

@fezdetritus

2 жыл бұрын

@@insanelygruz kzread.info/dash/bejne/oqqe1bqbqpTenM4.html

@insanelygruz

2 жыл бұрын

@@fezdetritus Oh yeah, I remember seeing that video! Wish I had that setup! Adrian is a wizard with that stuff tho and it looks incredibly complicated lol

Severe lack of Phraze Craze.

Show Castle of Ert

Wait a minute Im sure I just saw Zelda and starfox

Color is actually overrated...

@theproanimator8447

6 ай бұрын

Color is good

@prozac1127

Ай бұрын

Not just colour this thing is just 2 shades. Not even greyscale.

Bolo

Hah, the character in the game Bert (5:31) is much likely a reference to the well known swedish entrepeneur and former politician Bert Karlsson. The resemblance is striking: media.bonnierforlagen.se/bokbilder/b/9789175885216.jpg