The actually playing field is quite small and the enemy animations are a bit choppy by recent standards. Bungie, that later went on to develop Halo, created an interesting and atmospheric first person shooter with many puzzle elements. Marathon is a game that made Mac games mature. It is a sort a Gauntlet game for kids, with funny sounds, nice graphics and easy controls, but I feel the game lacks a little depth on the long run. The game was developed by Pangea Software, a company specialized in Mac games.

Power Pete, later released as Mighty Mike, was packaged with Mac OS 7 on MacIntosh Performa models. The game has easy on the eye graphics, nice relaxing music and is easy to control - but is harder than you might except. In this game you control a paper plane flying through a house, while avoiding furniture and making use of hot air streams to keep floating up. Glider PRO was created by the same developers as Crystal Quest (namely Casady & Greene). The game is memorable for its frantic gameplay and weird enemies (like the robot waiter on the picture below). This air hockey game / 3D Pong clone is also completely controlled by mouse and was originally developed for the Apple MacIntosh, but received many ports on other platforms later on. Shufflepuck Café is probably the earliest game I played. Passing a portal, picking up a star bonus, or shooting a blop enemy and most enemy sounds are all accompanied by funny, weird and memorable audio tones most Mac gamers will instantly recognize when hearing them. The game is completely controlled by mouse, but what really makes this one stands out are the hilarious sound effects. Here's a list of 10 titles I fondly remember playing as a kid - and probably many long-time Mac gamers will recognize some of the titles in the list.Ĭrystal Quest is a fast-faced game in which you control a circular spaceship that shoots its way through stages.

Mac gamers didn't always have the access to all the games PC gamers had, so most of them cherish a unique list of MacIntosh only titles.

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