20 Games That Defined Mac Gaming

1986 Dark Castle (Silicon Beach Software)
1987 Crystal Quest (Casady & Greene)
1989 Prince of Persia (Broderbund)
1991 Hellcats over the Pacific (Graphic Simulations)
1991 Lemmings (Psygnosis)
1991 Glider Pro (Casady & Greene)
1992 Secret of Monkey Island (LucasArts)
1992 Maelstrom (Ambrosia Software)
1992 Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis (LucasArts)
1993 Pathways into Darkness (Bungie)
1993 SimCity 2000 (Maxis)
1993 Tetris Max (aka Bricklayer)
1993 Myst (Cyan/Broderbund)
1994 Crystal Caliburn (Starplay)
1994 Marathon (Bungie)
1995 Apeiron (Ambrosia Software)
1995 Marathon 2: Durandal (Bungie)
1998 Nanosaur (Pangea Software)
2000 Bugdom (Pangea Software)
2002 WarCraft III (Blizzard Entertainment)

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• bungie
• pathways
• simcity
• monkey
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• warcraft
• nanosaur

[giserson2]

If you have warcraft 3 why not diablo and diablo 2? And why the hell dark castle that game stinks watch the angry video game nerds review and you will know why

[applemctom]

@giserson2: yes, there are many bad Dark Castle conversions and the game didn't age well... But at the time of release (1986) it was a great Mac game, with very good animations.

[CamusTheDark]

I have been looking really hard for a game that was on the Mac, I can't seem to find anything on it, so it must of been obscure. Anyway, the game was around the mid 90s and when you started it a woman's voice would say "Welcome to Cybernet".

In the game you drove around in a ship in the cyber world (I guess) and battled viruses and it had a green background. You would collect things like keys to get through, and said woman would also vocalize that "Cyan key" for example. It was 3rd person.

[applemctom]

@CamusTheDark: maybe it's Spectre (or Spectre Supreme or Spectre VR)?

[ashdragon1]

@CamusTheDark Dude.... i was around when that game Dark Castle came out it was utter crap. Animations - graphx dont make a game.. It seems you just looked up 20 games on the Mac and posted them as defined. (probubly from your own collection) Most of these titles did not define the Mac your missing so many games that are Actually good.. Doom, Quest for glory, The sims? Before making a video do your homework man......

[applemctom]

@ashdragon1: Dark Castle wasn't crap when it came out... and imo it's a more "mac defining game" than the PC games you mentioned... Not even all Quest for Glory games have been released on the Mac...

[IxenBlaze]

Dude I remember many of the games in the video and I used to have alot of fun with them.

[Kliwadenko]

escape velocity, spectre, lode runner

[HydraGraphics]

No Bolo or Escape Velocity? Angel Egg Pinball was great, too. Taskmaker!

[TachoSJ]

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.. wow!!!! I remember playing that game back in 95

[YouTubeToen]

The music is totally awesome!

[ashdragon1]

@applemctom well ill take it as a matter of opinion.

[SteadfastPeon]

@CamusTheDark That was definitely ShadowWraith.  Great game with a great soundtrack.

[mc430ftjesus]

How did Buried in Time not get on this list?!