Old Kids' Games for G3 iMac?
January 2, 2007 6:33 PM Subscribe
Help me find old Macintosh games for the kids. Specs and ages inside.
I have inherited a functional, Indigo iMac from the CRT era and have decided to use it as a kids' computer, in order to keep them off my laptop / wife's desktop. Here's what I've ended up with:
G3/350 MHz
320MB RAM
8MB VRAM
Mac OS X 10.3.9
I've scanned Google and this site, and have a couple of ideas, but I'd like to see if I'm the only looney who wants to keep a 6 (almost 7!) year old computer viable. I've tried some of the Flash sites for kids out there, and the performance is abysmal, so it's probably going to have to be local install for anything that's at all interactive.
Thanks in advance. Happy New Year!
-Zak-
I have inherited a functional, Indigo iMac from the CRT era and have decided to use it as a kids' computer, in order to keep them off my laptop / wife's desktop. Here's what I've ended up with:
G3/350 MHz
320MB RAM
8MB VRAM
Mac OS X 10.3.9
I've scanned Google and this site, and have a couple of ideas, but I'd like to see if I'm the only looney who wants to keep a 6 (almost 7!) year old computer viable. I've tried some of the Flash sites for kids out there, and the performance is abysmal, so it's probably going to have to be local install for anything that's at all interactive.
Thanks in advance. Happy New Year!
-Zak-
If you have classic running on it:
http://mac.the-underdogs.info/
a great many great games are out there that will still run on it.
Thrift stores and such normally have oodles of older games collecting dust as well.
What age of kids? Our nine year old has been dragged into the jobs of the older Sim series and Civ series.
And, emulation will zip along on that mac as well, so that's another can of worms.
posted by jeribus at 6:46 PM on January 2, 2007
http://mac.the-underdogs.info/
a great many great games are out there that will still run on it.
Thrift stores and such normally have oodles of older games collecting dust as well.
What age of kids? Our nine year old has been dragged into the jobs of the older Sim series and Civ series.
And, emulation will zip along on that mac as well, so that's another can of worms.
posted by jeribus at 6:46 PM on January 2, 2007
Zak-
There is a site which features Mac "abandonware" for download.
http://mac.the-underdogs.info
I have not searched the site, so I don't know if any of these are OS X games. You will have to put the legwork into it. But if there's enough here, it may be worth it to just install a fresh OS 8 or 9, and not worry about OS X.
posted by The Deej at 6:48 PM on January 2, 2007
There is a site which features Mac "abandonware" for download.
http://mac.the-underdogs.info
I have not searched the site, so I don't know if any of these are OS X games. You will have to put the legwork into it. But if there's enough here, it may be worth it to just install a fresh OS 8 or 9, and not worry about OS X.
posted by The Deej at 6:48 PM on January 2, 2007
Ok then. What jeribus said. (Missed it by that much)
Oh, I mean, I second what jeribus says!
posted by The Deej at 6:50 PM on January 2, 2007
Oh, I mean, I second what jeribus says!
posted by The Deej at 6:50 PM on January 2, 2007
Cap'n Magneto!
Cap'n Magneto is a simple adventure game (with admittedly crude graphics); it was a favorite of mine when I was around 10 or so. The author has recently released a Carbonized version that runs on OS X.
In the puzzle games department, a couple of more recent games come to mind:
Snood - the most addictive puzzle game eva.
Tetris Max - Needs Classic to run, but nobody has ever made a better Tetris clone, IMO.
posted by killdevil at 7:12 PM on January 2, 2007
Cap'n Magneto is a simple adventure game (with admittedly crude graphics); it was a favorite of mine when I was around 10 or so. The author has recently released a Carbonized version that runs on OS X.
In the puzzle games department, a couple of more recent games come to mind:
Snood - the most addictive puzzle game eva.
Tetris Max - Needs Classic to run, but nobody has ever made a better Tetris clone, IMO.
posted by killdevil at 7:12 PM on January 2, 2007
I guess Metafilter doesn't like FTP links. The link for Tetris Max should point to:
ftp://ftp.macware.org/pub/mac/Tetris_Max_2.9.sit
posted by killdevil at 7:13 PM on January 2, 2007
ftp://ftp.macware.org/pub/mac/Tetris_Max_2.9.sit
posted by killdevil at 7:13 PM on January 2, 2007
Low End Mac is a good general site for older mac resources - here's the software link.
posted by nanojath at 7:31 PM on January 2, 2007
posted by nanojath at 7:31 PM on January 2, 2007
Diablo II should work on it. You can still buy that new at EB's.
posted by krisjohn at 10:11 PM on January 2, 2007
I'd like to see if I'm the only looney who wants to keep a 6 (almost 7!) year old computer viable.HA! I have a C64 on my home network.
posted by krisjohn at 10:11 PM on January 2, 2007
Look for The Fool's Errand. If I remember correctly, it's now free and should run on Classic OS if you have it.
posted by Deathalicious at 12:01 AM on January 3, 2007
posted by Deathalicious at 12:01 AM on January 3, 2007
Response by poster: All -
I claim idiot. You can't have it, it's mine. My 3 daughters are 8, almost 6, and almost 2. Thanks for the answers so far!
-Zak-
posted by ZakDaddy at 4:43 PM on January 3, 2007
I claim idiot. You can't have it, it's mine. My 3 daughters are 8, almost 6, and almost 2. Thanks for the answers so far!
-Zak-
posted by ZakDaddy at 4:43 PM on January 3, 2007
Response by poster: Holy smokes! A *networked* C64? I'm impressed.
posted by ZakDaddy at 4:44 PM on January 3, 2007
posted by ZakDaddy at 4:44 PM on January 3, 2007
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