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We got our first Mac in 1984 when I was 12 (and we were seemingly the last people to get a computer in the fairly affluent neighborhood we moved to not long bef
by pmarreck 7y ago
We got our first Mac in 1984 when I was 12 (and we were seemingly the last people to get a computer in the fairly affluent neighborhood we moved to not long before).
I've always loved Macs, and games.
Myst was the last great Mac-only game.
When it got ported to Windows, I was very sad, because I knew it meant the Mac was "dead man walking" as far as being a viable gaming platform was concerned. Oh, it floundered for a number of years later (shout-out to Oni https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggC6kfJJE_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggC6kfJJE_w , Myth II: Soulblighter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s84pODz7ATs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s84pODz7ATs and the Marathon series, all of which were made by a barely-known-at-the-time Bungie Software primarily (at first only) for Macs) but... anyway.
Myst was magical and inspiring because Macs were magical and inspiring.
- scroot 7y agoMarathon Infinity was the absolute jam. It came with its own software for making levels/scenarios, and there were all these community-made Marathon games online. No one ever talks about it!
- pmarreck 7y agoAt the time (I was enlisted in the USAF for 4 years) I had PC gamers using my Mac just to play Marathon. Probably one of the last times that's happened, lol. (And I just realized one of the guys who did that often, Paul Voss, was killed recently in a crash, sigh: https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/air-force-aviators-killed-in-afghanistan-crash-were-lieutenant-colonel-with-25-years-of-service-and-b-1-bomber-pilot-1.616815 https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/air-force-aviators-... He also liked Escape Velocity, which was another Mac-only game at the time)
- thewebcount 7y agoEscape Velocity was so much fun! Someone recently did a remake (or copy is maybe a better term) of it called Endless Sky.