Mac OS 9 Game Reviews - The Forgotten PowerPC Mac Gaming Scene

During roughly the late 1980s through to 2005 there was a dedicated Mac gaming scene with a lot of exclusives, enhanced ports of PC games and even some influential classics such as Bungie’s Marathon, Ambrosia Software’s Escape Velocity, or going back even further, ICOM’s MacVenture adventure games. These games are no longer playable on modern Mac computers, and as such, even though I've since moved on to using Linux as my primary OS, I still collect vintage Macintosh computers and software where I can for the purpose of playing retro games on original hardware. This page is made as a tribute for this long forgotten and buried sub culture of PC gaming, to share the unique personality and varied library of this poorly documented piece of gaming history very near and dear to my heart. All games reviewed here will be played on original PowerMac hardware using Mac OS 9. Emulation may be used to work around compatibility issues when running older software on OS 9, but even those games will be played on Mac OS 9 using the OS 9 compatible emulator Mini vMac. The screenshots will also primarily be coming from original hardware using the 1999 screenshot software Snaps Pro2 by Ambrosia Software. Note that Snaps Pro2 is a bit touchy however and is prone to locking up when screenshotting certain games, in which case screenshots via capture device on OBS may be used instead.

You can see my PowerMac collection, my specs, and a short writeup on the capabilities of each computer by clicking here!

All my coverage so far of Mac games are here. Additionally, for transparency, I will state if I played a game as a kid or a not so you'll know how much bias I have in my critiques. Most of the Mac's library is new to me and I'm playing them for the first time for OverClockWorked!