Oldschool Mac OS Shareware Games


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I am one of those who has used MacOS since its inception, back in the 128K days of lore. I have been recently daydreaming about the old shareware games I would get from the local MUG on diskette, on some of which I spent far too many hours playing. Who else remembers or played these games? I wonder what these game creators are up to now? What other early games were you playing?

1. Dungeon of Doom, by John Raymonds, 1985

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A game that I was certifiably addicted to. Successfully completed game twice. This was a typical automated rpg that had a very advanced graphical user interface for its day. Icon based environments consisted of dungeon mazes that would grow more complex with each successive level. Lots of baddies and your usual choice of character: fighter, mage, wizard, knight, etc...

2. Cap'n Magneto, by Al Evans, 1985

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A bizarre adventure game where you navigated yourself (Cap'n Magneto) around an alien planet making friends with the local humanoids by giving them apples or bobbles. Sometimes they turned hostile if you failed to bribe them enough. The more friends you had the better chances you had of defeating the evil robot aliens. A game that I managed to finish. Precuror to modern day adventure games.

3. Radical Castle, by (?), circa 1987 (?)

A 'World Builder' (a graphical adventure game creator application) game. Well implemented. I do not think I ever complete this game buut I remember it having great sound effects and offbeat humour thrown into a classic adventure of a castle. I can't find a sceeenshot of this game anywhere.

4. Scarab of RA, by Rick Holzgrafe, 1987

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A first person maze game in 1987! Very confusing mazes, especially when drawn on a small b&w monitor. Never completed.

5. Dark Castle, by Silicon Beach Software, 1986

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Not shareware but a classic game! When this came out I was taken aback with the quality of animation, sound and graphic details. Your character runs, jumps, climbs stairs and ropes, throws rocks at bats and rats, ducks fireballs etc.. . Amazing game. Took me a while but I managed to complete it.

6. Beyond Dark Castle, by Silicon Beach Software, 1987

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Just as incredible and entertaining as the first.

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Haha, sweet.

Somebody should leak these, they *might* still run on OS X via Classic :p

Some of the games are still around for download but you need a 68K emulator I believe.

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No one's mentioned Oregon Trail? I'm shocked!

I think Fusion did :huh:

May not be as old but I miss the old school version of Oregon Trail. 
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I used to play Dark Castle and Cap'n Magneto on my old Macintosh SE in 1986 :)

The other one was Load Runner. That was pretty fun too :woot:

You actually remember Cap'n Magneto!! :woot: I think you are the first person other than myself that remembers this game.

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I remember playing Dark Castle on a Mac Plus at school at lunch time in high school. I also remember playing load runner on Apple IIe's in high school (grade 8). Macs came to our school the next year IIRC.

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Yeah I remember Cap'n Magneto :)

Not _too_ well, because I was all of six years old when my parents got me my Mac SE (4MHz processor IIRC, 1MB RAM, 20MB HDD :D) and somehow that was preloaded. But yeah I remember having to buy them off with baubles.

It was pretty fun, but then again for quite some time (till I got System 6.3 I think it was? That seemed to be the compatibility bar at that time :)) I was limited to that, MacGolf, and that paddle game where you hit the ball up into a pile of bricks to destroy them - I don't remember what that one was called :)

Good fun for an old system!

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After spending a couple of hours trying to find a copy of System 6 (easy - from Apple.com) and a proper ROM image (hard! Does Apple really care that much about protecting 20 year-old intellectual property? ;)), I logged on to a local auction site and found a gorgeous Mac 512k for $US1.

I will make it mine :D

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