Power Pete is an overhead view 2D shooter developed by Pangea Software and published by Interplay under the MacPlay brand name. It was released in 1995 and packaged with Mac OS 7 on new Macintosh Performa computers. The player's character is an action figure named Power Pete who has to save the fuzzy bunnies of the doll department from the bad toys while progressing through the fifteen levels of the game.
An action-packed arcade game based on the classic shoot-em-up, Centipede, but with engaging, colorful animations and fun, wacky sounds. It was released exclusively for the Mac operating system by the indie developer, Ambrosia Software.
The first known arcade emulation available publicly was the Williams Digital Arcade series from Digital Eclipse Software, released for the Macintosh in 1994. This series featured the Williams Electronics' arcade classics Joust, Defender and Robotron: 2084. In 1995, it was repackaged and expanded upon as Williams Arcade Classics for the PC.
For these games, Digital Eclipse developed an interpreter that emulated the games' arcade machines' chipset, including the Motorola 6809 central processing unit. This approach was meant to have the emulations act true to the original versions of these games, and not carry any imperfections direct ports could have introduced.
The Odyssey is a fun Macintosh-only RPG from David Larkin, a lone programmer. The game harks back to the olden days of Ultima IV, when RPGs were played from a bird's eye perspective, and offered a deceptively complex gameplay that would last for months on end.
In addition to a neat plot based on Greek myths and an intuitive interface, The Odyssey offers many cool features that are not usually seen in commercial RPGsālet alone shareware games. The game uses a unique and realistic conversation system that is reminiscent of Ultima VI, and offers a fast and furious combat system that is easy to learn, but requires strategy not unlike the Bard's Tale games to succeed. The writing is strong throughout, and the plot is captivating enough and different enough from dime-a-dozen fantasy fodder to maintain your interest.
A shareware game, the steep $25 fee for the registered version unfortunately got you nothing other than a hintbook. The shareware version for download is already a complete game, although some puzzles wil
This bento-shop simulator has players take over a failing bento shop with the goal of dominating the local town corner. Players can make their own custom bento via drag-and-drop from the available ingredients, choose how to stock their store, or snoop around opponents' stores to get a feel for their strategy. While normally played against the computer, a local multiplayer mode supports up to four players.
Color Dark Castle is a remake of the first Dark Castle adding colored graphics, new 'Novice' difficulty setting, allowing to save the game, and a secret level.
A follow-up for the Second Encounter of Wolfenstein 3D for Mac, Third Encounter is an adaptation of the 60 episodes from the MS-DOS version of the game.