I’ve watched all of your videos over the years, and I’m back rewatching this one years later. But I just realized why I keep coming back to your videos and why I think they’re interesting. It’s not just the nostalgia of covering old Mac games. It’s that a lot of these games have game mechanics that have mostly been forgotten about over the years. Grid Wars is a great example. As well as Island Defender in one of your HyperCard videos. That Island Defender mechanic of firing using the mini map based on what’s on the larger map isn’t used in modern games, and it makes me wonder what a modern remake of a game like that would look like. Could it be a roguelike? Could it be used in a platformer? There are a lot of classic Mac games and old DOS games with forgotten mechanics, and you’re definitely exploring a ton of them. With indie games winning at the Game Awards, your videos show how there are still so many forgotten game mechanic ideas waiting to be explored today. We just have to look in the past.

Hey man! Do you remember a side scrolling shooter game with ketchup and mustard bottles that would squirt ketchup and mustard as your ammo? It played a lot like Raiden or 1947 and you had different waves that would come through and shoot the enemies? I realize this is a little vague, but it's been 25 years but I never found out what that game was and what it was called. Ring a bell by chance?

I was certainly watching it. And all videos like this do is make me techno lust for the past. I have a IIcx sitting in a closet that I can't boot up, but I don't have the technical expertise to fix it. I bought a 1998 Rev A iMac two years ago, that is still humming along fine. I'm doing illustrator and Photoshop work in it. I hope one day, to get a better income, and to be able to buy several classic Macs, run 3-D software from the 90s on them, and see what I can do with that software with my current VFX skill set. Keep up the good work. That was an entertaining video.

I own this book and really enjoyed reading it from cover to cover. I especially love the cover and the overall presentation. And it's obvious the author has a big love for the classic Mac platform and knows his stuff. But I feel the book suffers with a common problem and that's that it doesn't include nearly as much screenshots as I would have liked. There are games mentioned in here where there's no screenshot or almost as bad, a picture of the box art or a screenshot of the titlescreen. If there's an infinite amount of space in the book then sure those things are good. But of course there's not, and screenshots of the actual in game footage should be the number one priority, especially on a platform with such unique hi-res 1 bit graphics as the original Mac. I found myself often having to go to the Internet to look up what games being discussed looked like and honestly, I just felt like having an offline experience.

I know I would have loved this game back when I was a kid in a Mac family.

This is a great video - many thanks! I was obsessed with video games as a kid, and was satisfied with what ever I could get my hands on. A demo my Dad brought home from work? A PD game from a BBS? A commercial game I got for my birthday? Yep, yep, yep. I loved them all. The Mac wasn't the only computer we owned in the 80s, nor were the games always technically the best. But even my child brain at the time could ascertain that these 1 bit Mac games were oozing with personality. And watching them today - even the ones I didn't know about like Continuum - it always brings a smile to my face.

The kid pix dynamite was the first sound I ever heard from a computer. It blew my mind. I never played any of these besides kid pix and Oregon Trail, but I know I've played more (SimCity!). Play more games soon dude! Also, I must be weird because Ive never played Carmen Sandiego, but loved the TV show.😊

There's a free windows version out there.

This guide made me understand a bit more how macintosh emulation works, but I cant seem to translate it to what I want to do specifically, do you think you could help me with a video maybe? I know its a lot to ask but id VERY much appreciate it. I am specifically trying to make Dark Castle run on Batocera (my batocera is installed on an sd card in my steam deck). I got all the BIOS files working, but I really dont know where to go from there. Like I said, this video helps because I assume thats what I'd need to do from inside batocera, but I dont know.

"spacestation pheta" 1995 would go nicely with all the crud hardware apple released around that time

I bought one of these today and went digging on Google to figure the safest way to open it. BAM your channel pops back into my life 🦾🤣 Thanks for making this Gruz, there's no one I'd rather have the rundown from. Greetings from Saint Cloud💥💥💥

Thank u very much I’ve been looking for this game from my childhood

I swear this game sends me back to one of my earliest memories when I came to games I think I was in kindergarten and they had this room with a bunch of latchkey kids, with two PCs, one with a bunch of preloaded Mac games like Monkey Shines but I think we only ever had access to the first level, plus because of playing restrictions it was like an arcade once you died you had to pass it on to the next kid, and nobody ever beat it, once I passed Kindergarten they restricted the PC I think I remember them telling us it was broken. I also remember the (Mac)PC had the breakout/brick break type puzzle game where each stage was a different objective and so many other games. The other PC had math blaster 1 and some other pixelated alien side scroller run and gun, that had some leap of faith at the end of stage. One of my goals in life is trying to find all the games that I never got the names of, and so far I have found more than I could've imagined.

Bro i have never even seen the black knight! As a kid this game destroyed me. Thank you for posting this!

This is timely as I introduced my 7 year old to Number Muncher and Word Muncher the other day 😛

I really enjoy your deep-dives into Old Mac games. I've been binging a few of your videos - very nice. Keep up the good work :)

I had a Mac SE back in 1990 and did a lot of desktop publishing with PageMaker. The games were great though - I always had an appreciation for black and white so I didn't mind.

Okay Gruz. I did some research and couldn't figure it out. I remember a game in school, was a top down Apple II game, kind of an exploration adventure. I think it had math problems. But most notably, I remember it had riddles. And because I didn't want to have to figure them out every run, I remember the riddle answers: Manure, Map, Human. I will never forget those, but for the LIFE OF ME I can't remember the game. Any clue from a Mac aficionado as yourself?

Crystal Quest, Friday The 13th (Maybe HyperCard game), Cannon Fodder

There's a reference to this easter egg in the new Beyond Shadowgate game, which has you return to the castle 35 years later. The landslide is cleared and the room has a staircase with TMON etched into the side of the wall. It also has you go into the room next to the well.

It's good to stay abreast of easter eggs like this.

pls pls pls gruz do a video of just hours of you playing oregon trail. i'd watch it.. < 3

Definitely do a follow up vid on Mac Oregon Trail! I honestly haven't seen that version of the game on KZbin very often!

In my High School, we still had Apple IIe and Apple IIgs computers for "gaming" (if you were sly). The Mac labs were devoid of games (except in Special Ed.). Only "grown-up" applications like Microsoft Works and ACCPAC Accounting were allowed on the Mac lab server. Ho Hum. (Notice I said "grown-up" and not "adult." That's intentional because there were "adult" games for the Mac, if you what what I mean. 😈) My friends and I still played games on the Macs at school. I just had to smuggle them in.

Have you done GopherGolf and Dirt Bike? A bit later than the black-and-white days but still good little games. I put in hours and hours on Dirt Bike. Also, I had a great time with Chuck Yaeger's Air Combat althougn that was a retail game.

The Phase Craze Plus applause unlocked a core memory for me.

Math Blaster!

I played Number Munchers, Lemonade Stand, and Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe. I went to elementary school in the 1980s, and the computer lab was full of Apple IIe computers.

I didn't remember using a Mac as a kid, but as soon as Kid Pix appeared it was like an old memory exploding to life! Loved messing with that.

Hello again! This is the vibe I need

Hey, I know I’m late to the party, but is there some guy to get my hands on a copy? 😁

Salam krnal dari indobesia,sanguh luar biasa ke ahlian dan ilmu nya❤🎉🎉🎉🙏👍

Hot Air Baloon is as entertaining as watching paint dry lmao Actually GTA III is one of my first PC games back when I was like 8 y.o.

Oh it’s Gruz, killgruz, the gruziest. I’m in.

Super Maze Wars, and Bolo! I would LOOOOVE longer videos on those titles!

really glad youre back

Did you ever encounter a math game where you walk across an alien planet, and every alien you meet you have to answer a math problem? Sidescroller. Seems like you had to land the ship through an asteroid field first, but I could have been watching the other kids play two different games.

Funnily enough, I played most of these at home rather than school. Not the hot air balloon one--I've never seen that one before and I hope to never see that again--but I definitely played a LOT of that Oregon Trail (frankly, I always preferred it BECAUSE of the 1st person hunting) and the various Munchers games (I think I was more of a Super Munchers player, but I also put good time into Word Munchers). I dunno, maybe we can trace the modern mascot horror trend back to Troggle and his crew. Also, I wonder if we had a Kid Pix ripoff because I don't remember the title at all, nor their logo, but those weird brushes and their sounds are sooooo nostalgic. I knew exactly what they'd do before you clicked them. I even remember that dynamite. What a time to be alive.

Also it looks like you're sending your mic recording into Logic Pro. Is that correct? Or you just sweetening it in Logic?

I recognize the song to the Hot Air Balloon game instantly as Around the World, written for 1956's Around the World in 80 Days and later recorded by Frank Sinatra on the Come Fly With Me album. An odd connection is that writer/director John Farrow won an Oscar for the Around the World in 80 Days screenplay, and Frank Sinatra would go on to become his son-in-law when he married his daughter Mia Farrow in the 60s. side note: Farrow's other daughter Prudence would also have a song written about her in the 60s, when John Lennon wrote Dear Prudence for the Beatles' white album.

I was obsessed with the Munchers games as a kid. Our school had the DOS version. When I found out that the Mac version had improved graphics and some different cutscenes, I really wanted to see what I was missing. To this day, I haven't seen all those cutscenes. Maybe some day...

We played a lot of Carmen Sandiego on our Apple IIe's at school.

I totally forgot about Hot Air Balloon!!! I loved Phrase Craze Plus, you can even make your own puzzles for it using a text file.

Very Flappy Bird-like!

I remember playing some educational hot air baloon themed game on Atari 800 when I was really little.

ja, es war eine schöne zeit, auf diesen kisten zu spielen. 😁 ich habe all die jahre mein macintosh LC und IIci rumgeschleppt. cool ist das diese immer noch funktionieren. 👍🇩🇪😍

Always happy to see a new video from you 😊

I was in a particular mood when I saw this title and I've never clicked on anything faster. This is the perfect dose of nostalgia I need tonight.

I remember on my family’s first machine with an (external) CD rom drive getting one of those shareware bundle CDs in a Mac magazine with hundreds of old shareware/freeware/demos on it. That’s when I first played all these :) nice blast from the past! Thank you!

Spectre was great.