The Secret History of Mac Gaming

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That is a bit sad, given thatI certainly used the Mac to play a few games back in the day, but I also notice the games I played didn’t really require what “modern” gaming seems to need nowadays.

Modern games don’t seem to do it as much for me (though there are exceptions, like that Zelda game on the Switch). I tend to mark this up as just me not being very good at those sorts of games, but I also remember being really inept with Doom and even Castle Wolfenstein 3D-type games back then, too.

It also sort of frustrates me that Cyan is doing fine with a kickstarter to release Myst games to a platform I’ll probably never run (Windows 10) given my history with the Mac and those games, but I also tend to use my Macintosh almost exclusively for work any more. If I want to play a game, I prefer a console.

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It was quite an old game by the time it was ported to the Genesis. And it didn’t age well.

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I remember playing FloppySwap on the first Mac.

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“Fuck off gamers, unless you’re using an iOS device.”

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Don’t forget Marathon. We used to meet and hook up our Macs with Ethernet cables and play Battle Royales years before Quake Arena.

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here’s an approximation of how it played on the mac.

You have to remember that part of the aesthetic of mac graphics was that that the pixels were very sharp.

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