Comments on: Mac Gaming Since 1874

By: Paul B

Paul B — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:29:32 +0000

I have a Mac and a PC – best of both worlds. PC for games, Mac for the OS.

By: subcommander

subcommander — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:48:15 +0000

I got a new aluminum macbook with a nvidia 9400m “motherboard processor” (good integrated graphics chip) and i can play alot of games well if i boot up windows XP pro if that counts. I can play bioshock and tf2 with everything on high. Works for me.

By: Cycle

Cycle — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:52:18 +0000

@solipsistnation: The fish/swab game is COSMIC OSMO, one of the Miller’s “explortainment” games released before they hit it big with Myst. It was recently ported to PC via GameTap, complete with beautiful black and white graphics.

I agree they did fantastic things with the black and white display on the Mac, making the most out of the higher resolution that DOS computers lacked. Some games look stunning!

I didn’t ever run into Cook’s Tetris, as far as I know. Should I have?

By: Dot

Dot — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:17:01 +0000

I have a seething hate for Macs just based on the way they’re pretty much trying to popularize everything in opposition to actual PCs, closed hardware sets, accessibility over customization, et cetera.
If OSX didn’t have the stupid artificial restriction on where it could be installed I wouldn’t have a problem with it but alas. I just hate the way it’s all closed and locked down.

By: tom@nullpointer.co.uk

tom@nullpointer.co.uk — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:34:17 +0000

i have a macbook: i just use bootcamp, easiliy enough hd space for both os (i run xp on the other half).
Had WoW, stalker etc running on it ok.
The intel gma gfx builtin chip is getting a bbit out of date now tho. Fine for al the indie stuff tho.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:22:12 +0000

I miss PC gaming oh so much since I bought my Macbook.

By: Daniel Purvis

Daniel Purvis — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:39:48 +0000

@Cycle Oh. My. God. Thanks so much for that link. I absolutely loved that game when I was younger.

@solipsistnation Now that you mention the old indie games, it’s true. I used to play dozens of new, small and quirky games every month and then, all the fun just seemed to stop when we upgraded to a G4 and I began playing major release titles instead of the cheaper stuff.

Oh, the memories.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:44:24 +0000

Seriously brings back memories. I don’t think I realized anyone else had fond memories of Suffering. Or Factory (Deluxe). Or Ingemaar’s Skiing Game. Or Bill the Demon, for that matter. A lot of the others that I recognized were staples, of course. Scarab of RA (so awesome!), Desert Trek, World Builder games, Escape Velocity, Spectre VR, Dark Castle, Pathways Into Darkness, Marathon, etc. And I never actually got to play Minotaur, but it looked cool. Only time Bungie’s ever taken a stab at RPGs.

I was young and had no money, so I played a lot of freeware and the unregistered parts of shareware games. When I got to play commercial games like Marathon it was because my parents had given them to me for my birthday.

By: Brendon

Brendon — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:30:41 +0000

I know… Stupid Motorola had it coming though.
Three things Apple do have:
1: Lots of very zealous internet men.
2: Lots of completely bull…poo advertising.
3: Lots of magpies for customers (SHINY! MUST HAVE IT!)

By: Krupo

Krupo — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:22:20 +0000

This should make you happy, then, Brendon: because of the iPhone you can call Apple the world’s 3rd biggest cell phone company now.

By: Brendon

Brendon — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:56:41 +0000

roryok says:

@Jamie

Why do PC users insist on slagging off Apple at ever possible opportunity

Because:
1. Apple pick fights with us in those mac / pc ads by basically saying we’re all buttoned down suits who suck at everything.
2. Mac users annoy us by going on and on about their macs, talking in that smarmy mac owner way, trying to make out like a mac is not a personal computer but some entirely better invention
3. iPod people (see 2, but substitute ‘ipod’ for ‘mac’, and ‘mp3 player’ for ‘personal computer’)
4. As you pointed out, the mac owners often fall into the same category as people who can afford to go out and buy BMWs, and then look down their noses at the rest of us.
5. Steve Jobs is a big fat jerk.

Couldn’t agree more mate.
That iPod thing really pisses me off… Creative are so much better and slightly cheaper.
Don’t even get me started on the iPhoney…

By: Razor

Razor — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:57:12 +0000

Where the F*** is the edit function? I was going to add that I was not implying greed had anything to do with the price differential, but was merely pointing out it was there. There is no added value to the gamer beyond not having to install Windows, but you can easily afford the added cost of second OS after just buying a few Windows games vs OSX versions.