Macintosh Game Links

Most Popular Macintosh Downloads

These are the ten games that were downloaded most often in November 2008:

1. Tetris Max
2. Glider
3. Strip-Mac!
4. Moorhuhnjagd
5. Same Game
6. Hexen
7. Short Circuit
8. Bubbles
9. World Builder
10. Sokoban

Various

• Games for Macintosh Plus
• emulation.net is dedicated to emulation on the Mac OS and Mac OS X.
• Erasmatazz is the site of game designer Chris Crawford. You can download the Macintosh versions of some of his older games here.
• Cliff Johnson has made all his early games available for free and hosts three of them, The Fool's Errand, At the Carnival, and 3 in Three on his website. All these games were written for the Mac originally. The navigation of this site is rather confusing; it's an animated flash menu at the top and bottom of each page that looks like some banner.
• Mac Plus Games
• The Vintage Mac Museum

Reviews

• Inside Mac Games
• Mac Game Database
• Mac Gaming and the Almighty Port: A brief history of Mac gaming. By Raphael Liberatore & Joel Page.
• Scott's Addictions

  are postings about the games I play as I play them. When a game captures my interest and becomes a front-burner favorite, I'll post a tidbit or two here for you fellow gamers to enjoy. I'll only post the best games of my crop. No ratings, just ravings. And I'm semi-agnostic: I love the Mac, tolerate my PC, and split time on the PlayStation and Nintendo 64.

  These postings are all from 1994-97, thus one of the few sources for older Mac games.

Abandonware

• Chi-Chi's Page has some games for 512k Macs.

French Sites

Were Macs especially popular in France? From 1990 to 1994, most commercial French games were available in a Mac version, and there are more French sites dedicated to Mac abandonware than anywhere else. Most of the games are in English nonetheless.

• Le Grenier du Mac has an interesting collection. Most files are in cpt format, you will need Compact Pro to open them.
• Macfreegames.com is a rather annoying site with lots of JavaScripts, but they have a huge selection.

Newer Shareware

• Ultima III Macintosh is a modern version with updated graphics. Shareware, $15. Read an interview with Leon McNeill.
• Foxchange has two games, Mr. Cat's Quest and Cave Dig.