Posts Tagged ‘Mac Plus’
For the last 6 weeks I’ve been posting about games I played as a child on our first family computer, the Mac Plus. Revisiting these games (using the Mini vMac emulator) has been full of tremendous joy, frustration and nostalgia. I’ve been struck by several things over the course of my adventures: 1) Just how [...]
Grid Wars is a simulation of an arcade game from the future. You, a human, enter an alien bar, called Alphie’s, in search of a space drink. But a sign reads: “You must play before you drink, human.” The game you must play, against a wide assortment of aliens and robots, is Grid Wars. As [...]
Citadel: Adventure of the Crystal Keep was one of the most significant games of my childhood. Released for the Mac in 1989, Citadel was an amazingly full-featured RPG. Replaying it today makes me realize how many of the cutting-edge features of Fallout 3 or Dragon Age were already present in Citadel 20 years ago. For [...]
