50 Vintage Mac Games in 15 Minutes! (Black & White 68K Macintosh Games)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2024
- In this gameplay video I've got clips of 50 vintage Mac games that you've gotta see! Most of these will run fine on 68000 Compact Macs. I've included the names of each game in case you want to check them out for yourself. All of these should be available on the usual sites for retro Macintosh games.
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0:00 Dark Castle (1986) Silicon Beach Software
0:20 Cairo ShootOut! (1987) HomeTown Software
0:35 Glider 3.1.2 (1991) Soft Dorothy Software
1:05 Frogger (1984) Sierra
1:21 Tetris (1988) Spectrum HoloByte
1:41 Airborne! (1985) Silicon Beach Software
2:00 Lode Runner (1984) Broderbund
2:15 Arkanoid (1987) Discovery Software
2:31 Bachman (1992) Ingemar Ragnemalm
2:47 MacBugs! (1985) Michael Ouye
3:03 Shufflepuck Cafe (1988) Christopher Gross
3:18 Operation Tsunami (1995) Sppph! Software
3:31 Grid Wars (1985) Ann Arbor Softworks
3:47 Dungeon of Doom (1985) John Raymonds
4:05 Spacestation Pheta (1995) T&T Software
4:31 Beyond Dark Castle (1987) Silicon Beach Software
5:05 Shadowgate (1987) ICOM Simulations
5:31 Bert (1994) Ingemar Ragnamalm
5:46 Bus'd Out (1984) Apple
5:58 Enchanted Scepters (1985) Silicon Beach Software
6:20 Battle Chess (1991) Macplay
6:35 Brickles (1985) Ken Winograd
6:45 Dirt Bike (1995) Brad Quick
6:57 Faces ... Tris III (1990) Spectrum HoloByte
7:08 Fusillade (1985) Miles Computing
7:29 Gnop! (1990) Bungie Software
7:42 Wave 15 (1985) Andy Tepper
7:58 HangMan (1985) Ken Winograd
8:11 Uninvited (1986) ICOM Simulations
8:23 Harrier Strike Mission II (1987) Miles Computing
8:39 The Lawn Zapper (1989) Imperial Software
9:08 Un-Breakout (1987) M.C. Sumner
9:22 Kani Miso (1991) Studio Femy
9:48 Lunar Phantom (1995) Rolf Staflin
10:09 StuntCopter (1986) HomeTown Software
10:26 Mouse Stampede (1994) A Herd of Walruses
10:48 Mac Slots (1984) DataPak Software
11:03 Prince of Persia (1992) Broderbund
11:38 Pararena (1990) Soft Dorothy Software
12:05 Sitting Duck (1987) Bill Clark
12:19 Crystal Quest (1987) Patrick Buckland
12:37 Gauntlet (1989) Mindscape
12:57 Ingemar's Skiing Game (1991) Ingemar Ragnamalm
12:09 Mac Landing (1986) Avidis Tevanian Jr.
13:28 Pipe Dream (1989) LucasArts
13:43 Spectre (1991) Peninsula Gameworks
14:00 Star Wars (1989) Broderbund
14:17 Cosmic Osmo (1989) Cyan
14:36 Glypha 3.0 (1993) Soft Dorothy Software
14:55 Slime Invaders (1991) Ingemar Ragnemalm - เกม
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
I played exactly half (25) of those games! I remember playing these games on my dad's Mac Plus in the 1980s and 1990s.
from a technology limitation perspective some of these pretty impressive
Sweet! I didn't know there were 68k versions of Gauntlet, Defender, and Star Wars. That's fantastic. Thanks Gruz!
Yeah, they were released on the 68K Atari ST and Amiga first.
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.
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!
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. 😃
Again, good stuff, Gruz!
Excellent vid idea! Downloading now from Macintosh Garden and firing up the SE and SE/30
That brings back some memories wow
very cool to see these, i do have a few, but not a whole lot, never seen many of these, thanks for the video :)
Pararena lives in my head rent free for all time.
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.
There were some great strategy games for the compact Macs that deserve a video.
Such memories... I missed playing these on my school's computer
Glider was the first game to reveal how emotionally dysregulated I was. LOL
Rad, thanks for this!
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!
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.
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...
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.
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.
My childhood in a video!
Excellent.
Happy to see so many of Ingemar's games here
Dark Castle & its sequel look cool !
dark castle, absolute legend
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 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?
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!
There is fully remade color dark castles for mac and pc
@@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 😭😭😭
@9:49 i see a bunch of references in all these games
is that the rocket for Team Rocket in pokemon ??? 😂
So many hours playing load runner 😎
I miss the good old days when gaming was simple
Though it looks basic, that version of loderunner is a legit god tier game.
Surprised that Continuum wasn't included, I remember playing that on an old B&W Mac. Lots of classics here though.
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.
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?
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.)
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 ?
I haven't played those games but I wouldn't rule out anything. The 1bit games were my fav tho! 😁
more games please :)
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...
Great video. Who said the Mac didn't have games.
which is the game were the plane flies in speed bombing continuously ..? that and glypha my childhood
I’m incredibly upset that this doesn’t have Oxyd! OTOH you included Glypha and Slime Invaders, so I’m beyond placated 😅
Ah, yes, Oxyd! That was ported from the Atari ST. Has an interesting history and legacy, that game series.
@@RetroDawn what, it was a port‽ all this time I was convinced it was a Mac native…
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?
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.
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.
12:19 The best
Uninvited! Played hours of black castle and shuffle puck. Very titillating hah!
hello friend, where can i get the roms in dks
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?
Somehow I went all my life without knowing there was a B&W version of Spectre! Or I forgot, I guess.
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?
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.
who had either Shadows of Mordor or Transylvania?
Dat mac lode runner
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
What’s your channel, as I would love to put an sd card in my SE?
@@MsLostboysforever it's AndREDraut, you just have to click on my name
I read Rolf Staflin as Rofl Stalin hahaha
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.
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.
@@hicknopunk And easy to u/g the Plus to 4MB, just by swapping in 1MB SIMMs.
@@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
Wait a minute Im sure I just saw Zelda and starfox
Unpopular opinion: Dark Castle is still, the best video game ever made.
I think there's two polarizing opinions:
1) Mac users - It was great
2) Every other platform (Amiga, Mega Drive / Genesis etc) - It sucked
I think Mac users liked Dark Castle because the Mac didn't have much choice for action games like this. And I also think this version used the Macs capabilities well to produce a game that was actually very good.
On the other hand, I think users of the other platforms got an inferior port. And these ports were on platforms that had a large selection of action games to compete with. But the biggest factor I think is that Mac users were used to whimsical games, like Dark Castle and Glider. The users were often adults (and later kids at school). Whereas the other platforms had very different demographics - often teenage boys and very young adults, who were used to games that played to the strengths of these other platforms. Next to Shadow of the Beast and Sonic the Hedgehog, Dark Castle didn't stand a chance.
@@OldAussieAds interesting take. I didn’t even know this game was on the other platforms. I myself was a 13 yr old boy when Dark Castle came out and yes, we didn’t have games like this at the time. We were used to enchanted scepters that had static pictures and other games that paled in comparison. So your assessment is probably true. But i can still hear the crows cry and the main character grunt like it was yesterday!
@@scottwilson3083 We had a Mac Plus at home (later LC II), but I also had an Atari XE (later Sega Master System). So I was able to see things from both sides. On one hand I had lots of exposure to classic colourful sprite driven video games. But when I was using the Mac, I knew I was in a completely different environment and my brain knew what to expect. So when I got my hands on Dark Castle (actually, Beyond Dark Castle) I had a good time. That said, the game was too hard for me, but I've heard the original Dark Castle was a bit more forgiving.
@7:29 Gnop! just looks like another Pong clone. No wonder we never heard of Bungie Software again.
Show Castle of Ert
Severe lack of Phraze Craze.
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.
I bet that was Oxyd. Some other commenters mentioned it too, it was a great puzzle game.
holy shit that's it@@Doogsonai
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
Man the sound is just not right when you capture with an emulator though.
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!
@@insanelygruz th-cam.com/video/pvjsXbz1xlk/w-d-xo.html
@@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
Color is actually overrated...
Color is good
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