Hot List @ Mac Games

Quest for Glory V by SierraFX

This new hybrid game also in the windows section of the CompUSA store for $49.95 is a great new game for us Macgamers to play. It takes time and downloading hints from the web is well worth it. The box is listed two ways one with the hint book and one without. Be sure to pick up the right one. The hint book starts a great beginning walkthru as a thief. The download hints told us to pick up a Paladin online, the best of all players to start with. Follow the hints or try it on your own. The kids we had test it found it really fun without any reading of any manuals. They were off solving quests and sleeping in the inn and drowning in the ocean. Try it for you role players it is great!

 

RedJack by THQ

The best new 3-cdrom hybrid game out there. Only $19.99 at CompUSA and well worth it. Look for it in the windows section of the store (and complain that one they didn't put a copy of it in the Mac section and two that when it is printed on the sales receipt it prints as a Win95 program not a hybrid which hurts mac sales reporting). First person adventure game. Be a pirate. Many puzzles to solve but enjoyable for all ages. The nine-year-olds we had test it were gungho to play it everyday. Sword fighting takes time but once you get past that one, on to the ship and the high seas. Look for Lyle at the cove and get that shark. This is a great game that will keep you busy for quite a while. It will even work on a 5200/75 that we tested it on, though a bit slow, still playable. There is a 900 number for hints if you get stuck, but you won't need that just keep trying different ideas and eventually a solution comes. We can't wait for the sequel.

 

Heroes of Might and Magic II by New World Computing

We still play this game every week if not everyday. The kid testers start new games whenever it gets to hard or take it to a friends and play a multi-player game. They even beat the older kids. We hope New World wakes up and makes a Mac version of Heroes III soon. This is a great game for roleplayers and adventures. It is well done and always fun. Though it gets too hard at the medium to end game. It is fun for the whole family.

 

Diablo by Blizzard Entertainment

A hybrid with hint book for only $29. It is a role playing adventure game most of which takes place in the dungeon of the church. A fine game and great for the most over 10 years of age. The younger ones tend to hide the screen on boot up because of the devil looking character and then it is fine from then on. Also available for the Sony Playstation (2-player mode) the adults and kids can all play this dungeons and dragons type game. Easy to get to the second level or third. The Butcher on level two takes time killing if you don't figure it out. Use the hint book for help on that one.

 

Unreal by MacSoft

Is a great game for the faster PowerMac. It requires 70 to 90mb of RAM. Better turn on that virtual memory up high for this one. A great new doom-type game. Probably the best so far. If you pick the easy level no monsters for a while so you might want to go to the next higher level for the fun of it. If you have a slower Mac forget it. Buy a new Mac or wait on this one.

 

Shattered Steel by Logicware

This MechWarrior clone type game is fun. Though lots of keys for commands can slow down the learning curve with fast keyboard it is playable. We were using a Gravis GamePad and one person would use the arrow keys to get us in closer or farther away and use 'T' for target and the other would center and shoot with the gamepad. It was fun playing this way two people against the enemey. We got to level four without too much problem but then we died. The game has a lousy manual with no instructions in the box just the cdrom and the pictures of the various robots etc and keyboard commands. So we were guessing on what to do next but we had a good time. We feel MechWarrior has some slick features but this one was fun we couldn't wait to play it again.

 

Dr. BrainThinking Games Puzzle Madness by Knowledge Adventure

Is the new one for the kids for the hybrid side of things. The children testing it love it though there is a bit of wasted time waiting for the characters to finish talking. It is a challenge to solve the various puzzles. Three levels of play keep it going for a while. $20 at CompUSA.

Opinions by the Mac Games staff

Tell the stores you buy from that if they sell you a hybrid game it should be listed on the receipt as a hybrid not as a Win'95 product. Also if a Mac game is in the windows section because it is a hybrid tell the store manager about this too. They would sell more of these games and more people would come to the store if they knew there were more games in the Mac section. If they put the 5-10 hybrids they have in the Windows section over in the Mac section that would produce a stronger presence for the Mac and a higher volume of sales for games. Then people wouldn't always turn to mailorder for their software and game purchases. If they are selling so many iMacs they should want to increase the software section in their store to support their sales and on and on. Even a separate section of the store for only hybrids would be an easy solution. That is what one of my windows friends suggested. That way if they have friends with both platforms it is easier to make buying decisions. It also makes it nice for gifts and parties to know that they can bring their cdrom over to play with because it runs on both.

Not so new in depth Game Reviews

Here are a list of we liked a lot in 1999 ... [compiled by MacGames staff]

Command & Conquer	Alley 19	Dogz & Catz
Realmz	Tomb of the Taskmaker	Conquest of the New World
Shadow Warrior	Hexen	Duke Nukem series
MacAddict Shareware	Boom	Marathon Infinity
Titanic	Myth	Timelapse
The Dig	Comanche	Havoc
Eric's Ultimate Solitaire	PowerPoker	Bridge 8.0
F/A-18 Hornet 2.0	SimCity 2000 Special Edition	Sim Classics 3 in 1 Pack
SimIsle	SimTown	You Don't Know Jack
Descent series	WarCraft I & II	Gato
Wizardry Gold	Onslaught	Glider Pro
Dome Wars 1.2	Step On It	Might and Magic IV&V World of Xeen
Battle Chess	PowerPete	Shanghai: Great Moments
MechWarrior 2	Close Combat	3-D Ultra Pinball
Virtual Pool	PT-109	Strategic Conquest 4.0

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Hope the above list gives you some games to purchase for the next month or so. Most of the above games were found in the MacWarehouse catalog or at Download.com or on MacAddicts

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Links to Mac Software Vendors & Shareware

Cyberian Outpost	MacSoft	MacWarehouse
Shareware.com	Download.com
MacZone	Fantasoft	HappySurfer for hints
	MacAddict

Rare and Old Games

Some of our favorite old Mac Games that we played on our MacPluses are PT-109, MacRogue (b/w), Submarine Simulator, Gato (sub simulator) (b/w) Mouse Stampede, MacManager. We will also be selling some of our old MacPlus/512 software such as the ones mentioned above in the near future. Highest bidder wins. These are all black and white games with original boxes....maybe on e-bay they will be auctioned off or to the highest bidders that email us by 4/1/2000.

Recent bid: $15 for Gato...we are hoping for much higher to sell the original game, disks, box, and manuals.

We have a large collection of old mac games ready for bid.