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alcimedes
2004-08-11, 02:09
So, I'm bored. I've had a hell of a time sleeping lately, so am looking for some Mac games that are fun. I burned out on the FPS genre in general, rahter i'm looking for some games I can just waste a few hours with. Anyone have any games they'd recommend for my Mac?
I got this off macupdate the other day, it was...kind of fun, I was able to waste some time with it though and it was fun to play around with
gish (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15618)
also, Quinn (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10063) is a nice game of tetris, that I can never get enough of, I love tetris.
I had a good time playing this game Elasticity (http://www.xenquinsw.com/main/index.php?page=product&id=elasticity) it's a puzzle game, fairly straight forward, but still entertaining.
of course Emulation (http://www.emulation.net/) is always fun
Neverball (http://icculus.org/neverball/#download) is fantastic.
Barto
I knew I was forgetting something! neverball is great, it's like monkeyball, only neater :p
I haven't tried it, but "Neverball" looks like "Marble Blast" which was a free .mac game. :|
As for other games, I have wasted some time on "Snap!" and it is not too bad. Link to the company site. (http://www.phelios.com/mac/)
pop-pop (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/pop-pop/)
pop-pop (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/pop-pop/)
pop-pop (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/pop-pop/)
Oh, and Marble Blast OSX (http://www.garagegames.com/pg/product/view.php?id=3) is good (you got it when it was free with .Mac, right?) as well as Enigmo (http://www.pangeasoft.net/enigmo/info.html). If you really want to kill a *lot* of time, snag a copy of Escape Velocity Nova (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/); Ambrosia now has free plug-ins that convert the game into the classic EV and EV:Override too.
Angband (http://www.thangorodrim.net/)
http://kiki.sourceforge.net/
Mr Beardsley
2004-08-11, 09:04
You didn't say they had to be free. These (http://www.strangeflavour.com) guys make some pretty fun games.
goldfish
2004-08-11, 16:33
Noiz2sa (http://victoly.com/~adam/noiz.html) - shoot stuff
rRootage (http://victoly.com/~adam/rr.html) - shoot more stuff
BZFlag (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/bzflag/BZFlag_1.10.6.dmg) - Be shot
There's a game called pocket tanks that's a lot of fun. At least I think it's called pocket tanks. It's shareware. Try versiontracker.
Anyone up for a Call of Duty Smack-down? I will try to run my box as a server temporarily if interested. Worth a look to see how it performs. Should be pretty good.
PM me or iChat me and I'll give you the server name.
Gargoyle
2004-08-26, 16:22
I really likes the Black & White (http://blackandwhite.ea.com/) games. Had the original for the PC a few years ago - not sure how gfx intensive it is - but the platinum edition is out for the mac.
you could try wingnuts from freeverse for FREE if you have .Mac.
I've been having a bunch of fun with it the past week.
i downloaded the Sim Park / Theme Park demo but it doenst work on my mac!
Man , I wish Worms Armageddon made it to mac :(
Depending on how fast your Mac is, you should try to find some N64 ROMs. :)
On this 1.33GHz PB, most games like F-Zero X, Mario Kart 64, and Super Mario 64 play perfectly. Zelda:OoT is a little more sluggish with the frame rate, but is still perfectly playable.
SilentEchoes
2004-08-26, 21:40
And if your machine is too slow for N64 ROMs get an amiga emulator and get Marble Madness. BEST GAME EVARR
alcimedes
2004-08-26, 21:41
i think i might have stumbled across 1.4 GB of NES ROMS. good times are being had by all.
I wish Project 64 ran on Macs. Mupen doesn't even compare. :\
bassplayinMacFiend
2004-08-26, 22:41
I got this off macupdate the other day, it was...kind of fun, I was able to waste some time with it though and it was fun to play around with
gish (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15618)
also, Quinn (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10063) is a nice game of tetris, that I can never get enough of, I love tetris.
I had a good time playing this game Elasticity (http://www.xenquinsw.com/main/index.php?page=product&id=elasticity) it's a puzzle game, fairly straight forward, but still entertaining.
of course Emulation (http://www.emulation.net/) is always fun
Whew! I'm not the only one hooked on Quinn! How many levels of random blocks do you usually start with? I think I start with 9.
Whew! I'm not the only one hooked on Quinn! How many levels of random blocks do you usually start with? I think I start with 9.
I'm not ...addicted to it, I only play it when I want to play tetris.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE tetris, and am quite good at it, I just don't spend that much time playing quinn.
None of you punks own Call of Duty? Woe is me... well, woe is you actually. I suck. Would've been the perfect chance for you to splatter me all over the pavement and rubble.
:)
None of you punks own Call of Duty? Woe is me... well, woe is you actually. I suck. Would've been the perfect chance for you to splatter me all over the pavement and rubble.
:)
We have that on the PC right next to me, and it is a great game, but I haven't played it in many months.
I have it, and I play it fairly often too! I just haven't been around for the last couple days. But if anyone wants to join in, let's go and I'll own you! I should be available tonight, around 6:30 or 7 PM Central time.
Done deal. Anyone who can join in, please do so. I'll hop onto iChat around 6:15 CST and we'll pick a name / type for the server and have at it. I don't know how well my machine will handle it people but I figure most "good" servers are just high-end PCs that people own, running on a cable connection. Very unlikely that many people own true Xeon boxes dedicated on a T1 line or some such.
Heading into the AN chat room a little early...
Well I'm off work in ten minutes and I have a 20 minute bike ride home. See you in chat room "appleinsideher" around 6:20.
All you chumps are just afraid of my CoD mastery!
:D
All right, Luca and I are heading in for the proverbial bloodbath. Server is standard DM, called "Aldo's Smackdown" Hope to see one or two of you there. Should be online for maybe an hour or so. I may even leave it on longer than that if there are no storms pounding my house.
torifile
2004-08-27, 19:53
Call of Duty, eh? I'll see if I can find it cheap some place.
Do it. It's a great game. Luca and I just finished a humorous grenade-bashing match. In general, I must say when he isn't being merciful (letting me think I can kill him), he's pretty damn good. Better than I am, that's for sure. But I shall improve!
I think Aldo needs a clan... that's what I think.
;)
Haha. That was kinda fun... some other people joined up and we killed each other a bit, then I got bored and stared acting stupid. But then again, there was just me and Moogs on the server at that point.
If we get more people to join in later we could get quite a game going.
If anyone wants to have at it, I am going to put the "Aldo's Smackdown" server back up in a few minutes for the lunch hours. Then it's off to watch the Gold medal Men's Soccer game.
torifile
2005-03-10, 20:30
Way late but I got it today. I know that this thread is months old, but I'm a little behind the gaming times...
torifile
2005-03-12, 22:35
No one is playing CoD anymore? Maybe I shouldn't have bought it. :\
Come on, there should be plenty of people playing. However, there will be a lot of people using the United Offensive expansion, and you can't play against them if you're using plain old CoD without the expansion.
Maybe there's no one still playing from AppleNova, but that's why there's an in-game server browser.
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