Computer game nostalgia & Mac OS/IOS

[Dannyalcatraz]

30 or so years ago, a brilliant little meditative puzzle game called Heaven & Earth was released, first for PCs, then for Macs. It had 3 types of activities: Illusions (where you rearranged tiles on your screen to match the provided image), a pendulum you nudged to hit targets, and a mystic-themed card game.

I loved it, mostly for its card game. The other stuff was fun, but the card game was addictive…at least, for me. Alas, it’s not playable on Macs upgraded to anything post OS X. (Yeah, that goes back a ways.)

I was wondering, though, if anyone knew of an IOS app or that had a similar vibe. (Especially for the card game aspect.)

AAAAAANND while I’m at it…

Same questions go for the ancient computer games Broadsides, Moebius, Playmaker Football, Escape Velocity, and Abuse.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

AAAAAANND while I’m at it…

Same questions go for the ancient computer games Broadsides, Moebius, Playmaker Football, Escape Velocity, and Abuse.

...Wait, so Mac games like Marathon are ancient now?

...WHAT DOES THAT MAKE APPLE ][ GAMES???11????!!!??

Before there was recorded time, Snarf ventured out and played Akalabeth, World of Doom, and recorded his travails on a cuneiform tablet.



PS- Escape Velocity was awesome.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

...Wait, so Mac games like Marathon are ancient now?

...WHAT DOES THAT MAKE APPLE ][ GAMES???11????!!!??

Before there was recorded time, Snarf ventured out and played Akalabeth, World of Doom, and recorded his travails on a cuneiform tablet.



PS- Escape Velocity was awesome.

I loved Marathon!

Regarding your comment, though…

My old Property prof told us about a legal doctrine in which any document older than 30 years old was (rebutably) considered to be genuine. It was called The Doctrine of Ancient Documents.

He then opined, “For many of you, this is the first time something younger than you has been called ‘ancient’. This will not be the last time.”

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I loved Marathon!

True fact- Marathon was the first visual competitive networked game I played. I had played other things (like MUDs) before, but Marathon I had running on a sweet LAN.

It was amazing. Especially with the spanker - the rocket launcher!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I never got to run it on a LAN, sadly.

 

[Lidgar]

True fact- Marathon was the first visual competitive networked game I played. I had played other things (like MUDs) before, but Marathon I had running on a sweet LAN.

It was amazing. Especially with the spanker - the rocket launcher!

DItto. It was (is) amazing. I also remember waiting with baited breath for Halo to be released (another game with great LAN memories), only to watch in horror when Microsoft bought Bungie...

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

...Wait, so Mac games like Marathon are ancient now?

...WHAT DOES THAT MAKE APPLE ][ GAMES???11????!!!??

Noob.
cries in Colossal Cave on Timex/Sinclair

 

[Janx]

It's been awhile since I booted up my Apple IIc clone.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Noob.
cries in Colossal Cave on Timex/Sinclair

If you haven't used a cassette tape player as your data storage device, you haven't really lived, have you?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

It's been awhile since I booted up my Apple IIc clone.

IIc? You young generations, with your Cs and your Es and your GSs.

It's been downhill since they came out the +.

 

[Dioltach]

If you haven't used a cassette tape player as your data storage device, you haven't really lived, have you?

My first computer used the miniature cassettes, and had a memory cartridge with a whopping 16kb.

We have an old arcade in our living room, fitted with a modern processor and screen, which has 60 classic arcade games. Pacman, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Centipede, all the old favourites. And everyone absolutely loves it, from young kids to people in their 60s.

 

[Mannahnin]

If you haven't used a cassette tape player as your data storage device, you haven't really lived, have you?

My first computer used the miniature cassettes, and had a memory cartridge with a whopping 16kb.

Our family's first was a TRS-80 color computer 1, as I recall. My dad keyed in a little skiing game from the back of a personal computing magazine, where the skier was represented from the top-down view as a capital H. I don't think we ever had Adventure at home; I played that at the home of a friend of my parents.

The TRS-80 was followed by a Coleco Adam, complete with tape drive. I played quite a bit of Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom, Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr., and an "educational" game called Fraction Fever on that.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Our family's first was a TRS-80 color computer 1, as I recall. My dad keyed in a little skiing game from the back of a personal computing magazine, where the skier was represented from the top-down view as a capital H. I don't think we ever had Adventure at home; I played that at the home of a friend of my parents.

C'mon. You know what you're supposed to call it.

You know.

TRASH 80.

The TRS-80 was followed by a Coleco Adam, complete with tape drive. I played quite a bit of Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom, Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr., and an "educational" game called Fraction Fever on that.

The Coleco machines. That's a blast from the past! Those, the Intellivisions (Sea Battle!) and, of course, Amigas and Commodores. Good times!

(I was always more of the Apple fan ...)

 

[MarkB]

Our family's first was a TRS-80 color computer 1, as I recall. My dad keyed in a little skiing game from the back of a personal computing magazine, where the skier was represented from the top-down view as a capital H. I don't think we ever had Adventure at home; I played that at the home of a friend of my parents.

The TRS-80 was followed by a Coleco Adam, complete with tape drive. I played quite a bit of Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom, Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr., and an "educational" game called Fraction Fever on that.

Ours was a Video Genie, and I still remember the manual typing-in of programs from the back of Computer & Video Games magazine.

 

[Mannahnin]

The Coleco machines. That's a blast from the past! Those, the Intellivisions (Sea Battle!) and, of course, Amigas and Commodores. Good times!

(I was always more of the Apple fan ...)

Yeah, we were never an Apple family. PCs all the way, after the Adam.

There was a family we were good friends with (oldest two kids about the same age as my brother and I), though, where both the parents were programmers at Unisys. I think they had at least four computers at home as of 1987, at least two of which were Macs. I remember being blown away by the (black and white) graphics on some side-scroller dungeon crawling game they'd play at home, but I can't remember the name of it.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Yeah, we were never an Apple family. PCs all the way, after the Adam.

There was a family we were good friends with (oldest two kids about the same age as my brother and I), though, where both the parents were programmers at Unisys. I think they had at least four computers at home as of 1987, at least two of which were Macs. I remember being blown away by the (black and white) graphics on some side-scroller dungeon crawling game they'd play at home, but I can't remember the name of it.

....DARK CASTLE!!!!

 

[Mannahnin]

That's definitely it.

After a little digging, I think they had Dark Dungeon/The Dungeon Revealed, as well.

 

[practicalm]

Spaceward Ho! and NetTrek for mac LANS. That was fun

Edit: Forgot Mac Bolo - networked tank game. So much fun

 

[Dioltach]

@Dannyalcatraz is going to have to change the title of this thread to "I had a question but then everyone started reminiscing about old computer games."

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Spaceward Ho! and NetTrek for mac LANS. That was fun

Edit: Forgot Mac Bolo - networked tank game. So much fun

I can- and do- still play Spaceward Ho! on occasion. Great game.