50 Vintage Mac Games in 15 Minutes! (Black & White 68K Macintosh Games)

[@K-wq5zl]

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

[@choppergirl]

Wrote a few Mac Shareware games back in the day in Microsoft QuickBasic (compiler). It wasn't until I was at my grandparents in the big city of Atlanta that I could upload them to a BBS and get them out into the wild. Had some people mail or call me from my contact info in the About box to tell me the liked this or that game. I remember one of them I had made was a Milton Bradley Clone of Merlin in Hypercard, to learn Hypercard programming... and this woman wrote me to thank me so much, she had lost her Merlin. I still got my Merlin hanging on the wall as Applebee's wall art, along with my original Mac SE mobo that had it's ADB ports fried by lightning. I played all these games because I had pirated the entire Mac section of the software store I worked at back then, or downloaded them from the ATL BBS. I still got them all stashed away on a Powermac 9600 on the shelf here I haven't touched in... 30 years. I'd have to buy a new CMOS battery for it; I wonder if the SCSI drives will still spin up, or if the rubber in side has rotted to glue.

[@williamd2647]

If you do power it up, don't give up too quickly if the drive doesn't spin up, good luck😊

[@burgundian-peanuts]

I played exactly half (25) of those games! I remember playing these games on my dad's Mac Plus in the 1980s and 1990s.

[@illarionbykov7401]

I played 17. This video missed the most original and memorable Mac game--Balance of Power

[@chris101ward]

I remember playing Risk on the original Mac after my dad got one back in the early 2000's. At the time he was struggling, and living in a camper on my Aunt and Uncle's farm. It was a step up from the tent he was living in when he first moved to their farm. I think he took his and my mothers divorce harder than my brother and I did. Some of my best childhood memories were with my brother and my dad on that farm. R.I.P. James Ward. I miss you, and I love you. Even if I spent half of my life without seeing you.

[@Tom2112Tom]

Sweet! I didn't know there were 68k versions of Gauntlet, Defender, and Star Wars. That's fantastic. Thanks Gruz!

[@RetroDawn]

Yeah, they were released on the 68K Atari ST and Amiga first.

[@MarkTheMorose]

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.

[@catherineparker6758]

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!

[@LuteFrontier]

I miss the good old days when gaming was simple

[@PEAKCENTURY]

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!

[@CobaltFoxPlays]

Such memories... I missed playing these on my school's computer

[@whatevercm]

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.

[@giloto382]

Dirt Bike looks like a dad of those Flash-based browser games.

[@drywinddotnet]

Excellent vid idea! Downloading now from Macintosh Garden and firing up the SE and SE/30

[@CaptGingi]

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. 😃

[@UberMan5000]

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.

[@jasonscibby3362]

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...

[@RetroDawn]

There were some great strategy games for the compact Macs that deserve a video.

[@YesterYearsMacGames]

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!

[@chris101ward]

I remember playing Risk on the original Mac after my dad got one back in the early 2000's. At the time he was struggling, and living in a camper on my Aunt and Uncle's farm. It was a step up from the tent he was living in when he first moved to their farm. I think he took his and my mothers divorce harder than my brother and I did. Some of my best childhood memories were with my brother and my dad on that farm. R.I.P. James Ward. I miss you, and I love you. Even if I spent half of my life without seeing you. I pray I get to see you again when I enter those pearly gates. F*ck Cancer.

[@squishyrat]

Again, good stuff, Gruz!

[@tobiasampersand]

Pararena lives in my head rent free for all time.

[@pon2oon]

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.

[@TheMadisonHang]

@9:49 i see a bunch of references in all these games is that the rocket for Team Rocket in pokemon ??? 😂

[@lilwadina]

Glider was the first game to reveal how emotionally dysregulated I was. LOL

[@arifeldman6365]

I was always impressed with early 68K Mac games. There was something inviting and creative to their 1bit graphics.

[@JetteroHeller83]

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.

[@bubblegumgun3292]

from a technology limitation perspective some of these pretty impressive

[@onigvd77]

very cool to see these, i do have a few, but not a whole lot, never seen many of these, thanks for the video :)

[@ashoat5949]

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.

[@emoneytrain]

Happy to see so many of Ingemar's games here

[@jmpalacios]

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!

[@Nullscr1pt]

There is fully remade color dark castles for mac and pc

[@jmpalacios]

@@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 😭😭😭

[@Luke_McCormack]

That brings back some memories wow

[@neil1922]

So so many memories!

[@Theshark15z]

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?

[@Aaron.Newman]

Needs some Oregon Trail included. Also: A-Train (what sim city 2000 would look like on compact mac). And don't forget Apache Strike.

[@chrisnunley114]

OMG! Dungeon of Doom! I think I spent half my summer in 86 playing that while watching Amuck In America on MTV!

[@ZergSmasher]

Surprised that Continuum wasn't included, I remember playing that on an old B&W Mac. Lots of classics here though.

[@Doogsonai]

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.)

[@bronysimpson3250]

I love how Macbugs is a combination of Asteroids and Centipede.

[@kawamikazecheant]

Dark Castle & its sequel look cool !

[@IamCoalfoot]

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.

[@mikecrane2093]

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.

[@rajendrabiswas]

which is the game were the plane flies in speed bombing continuously ..? that and glypha my childhood

[@hfric]

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 ?

[@insanelygruz]

I haven't played those games but I wouldn't rule out anything. The 1bit games were my fav tho! 😁

[@bymarcao]

hello friend, where can i get the roms in dks

[@dont-want-no-wrench]

dark castle, absolute legend

[@mspeir]

My childhood in a video!

[@Dingoes8MeBabies]

Rad, thanks for this!

[@AlejandroDominguezParedes]

12:19 The best

[@williamd2647]

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

[@stewybot]

Though it looks basic, that version of loderunner is a legit god tier game.

[@foo0815]

Color is actually overrated...

[@theproanimator8447]

Color is good

[@prozac1127]

Not just colour this thing is just 2 shades. Not even greyscale.

[@paparnaud]

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...

[@macgameshistory]

Excellent.

[@michaelhill6453]

Some great games in there. When you don't have unlimited RAM, you have to be inventive.

[@hicknopunk]

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.

[@RetroDawn]

@@hicknopunk And easy to u/g the Plus to 4MB, just by swapping in 1MB SIMMs.

[@hicknopunk]

@@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

[@a4e69636b]

Great video. Who said the Mac didn't have games.

[@marcmartin1372]

How to play it with a pc or a mac ?

[@Nichen]

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?

[@tltjapkes]

Any chance its Ancient Art of War?

[@tltjapkes]

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[@Nichen]

@@tltjapkes Sorry its not art of war

[@nzyt1]

Mac games are monochrome and stimulate the imagination. I love simple games that have a very cultural feel to them, even without screen scrolling or fancy music. It's a shame that I'm not from this generation.

[@Venatius]

Somehow I went all my life without knowing there was a B&W version of Spectre! Or I forgot, I guess.

[@nevyn]

I’m incredibly upset that this doesn’t have Oxyd! OTOH you included Glypha and Slime Invaders, so I’m beyond placated 😅

[@RetroDawn]

Ah, yes, Oxyd! That was ported from the Atari ST. Has an interesting history and legacy, that game series.

[@nevyn]

@@RetroDawn what, it was a port‽ all this time I was convinced it was a Mac native…

[@andrewjarvis7777]

who had either Shadows of Mordor or Transylvania?

[@koehnboy]

So many hours playing load runner 😎

[@suersu3963]

Uninvited! Played hours of black castle and shuffle puck. Very titillating hah!

[@jak4470]

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?

[@TwoQuickOnes]

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?

[@AndREDraut]

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

[@MsLostboysforever]

What’s your channel, as I would love to put an sd card in my SE?

[@AndREDraut]

@@MsLostboysforever it's AndREDraut, you just have to click on my name

[@drzeissler]

Too bad that not all of these run on the LC :(

[@whatevercm]

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?

[@insanelygruz]

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.

[@basillane1130]

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.

[@Doogsonai]

I bet that was Oxyd. Some other commenters mentioned it too, it was a great puzzle game.

[@basillane1130]

holy shit that's it@@Doogsonai

[@drzeissler]

more games please :)

[@chipius]

SCARAB OF RA!!! FATHER OF MARATHON

[@fezdetritus]

Man the sound is just not right when you capture with an emulator though.

[@insanelygruz]

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!

[@fezdetritus]

@@insanelygruz kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqfNpIuYr5aros0

[@insanelygruz]

@@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

[@cold_warrior]

I read Rolf Staflin as Rofl Stalin hahaha

[@VicTheVicar]

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

[@wschmrdr]

Severe lack of Phraze Craze.

[@pservice85]

Show Castle of Ert

[@andy68916]

Spectre was great.

[@fezdetritus]

Dat mac lode runner

[@gp123lIlI]

Wait a minute Im sure I just saw Zelda and starfox

[@jamestaylor71]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@channingthomas6697]

I wanted a home computer so badly for christmas 1985. Thank goodness my parents bought us Tandy CoCo instead of Apple. Apple games sucked.

[@BCBennyCAN2]

Bolo

[@Pugopugo]

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