Games for the Mac

In article <1h4s096.frffo09xt8x0N%pfjamesAT@clara.co.uk> Peter James,
pfjamesAT.RemoveThis@clara.co.uk writes:
> favourite Mac game

My faves have been around many years... Warcraft, Escape Velocity & Bolo.
Plenty of Mac games have been created but not in all genres. Plenty of
1st person shooters and god sims.... but limited racing and football
games.

G.
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> I've just come to the Mac after many years as a Windows user. I do miss
> some of the games I played on the PC. UT2004 is one game I particularly
> miss. Can anyone on this NG tell me their favourite Mac game. I need
> something to do these long autumnal evenings.

I've been rather fond of RailRoad Tycoon 3. I know it's been out for a
while, but it works for me.

And Alpha Centauri, but I don't even think it's in print any more.
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In article <1h4s096.frffo09xt8x0N%pfjamesAT@clara.co.uk>,
pfjamesAT RemoveThis @clara.co.uk (Peter James) wrote:

> I've just come to the Mac after many years as a Windows user. I do miss
> some of the games I played on the PC. UT2004 is one game I particularly
> miss. Can anyone on this NG tell me their favourite Mac game. I need
> something to do these long autumnal evenings.

My ow n favourites are

X2: The Threat (an accomplished graphic strategy game based,on Elite,
involving space trading and first-person piloting and shooting).

Homeworld2 (Another graphic space strategy game)

Europa Universalis (History strategy 1350-ish to 1815)

The Sims2 (You've heard of it, yes?)

Age of Empires

Stronghold

Colonisation

Age of Mythology

SimCity

etc etc.

Kind regards,
Devi
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In article <animas-5D711D.00584023102005.TakeThisOut@news.ntli.net>,
Devi Jankowicz <animas.TakeThisOut@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> In article <1h4s096.frffo09xt8x0N%pfjamesAT@clara.co.uk>,
> pfjamesAT.TakeThisOut@clara.co.uk (Peter James) wrote:
>
> > I've just come to the Mac after many years as a Windows user. I do miss
> > some of the games I played on the PC. UT2004 is one game I particularly
> > miss. Can anyone on this NG tell me their favourite Mac game. I need
> > something to do these long autumnal evenings.
>
> My ow n favourites are
>
> X2: The Threat (an accomplished graphic strategy game based,on Elite,
> involving space trading and first-person piloting and shooting).
>
> Homeworld2 (Another graphic space strategy game)
>
> Europa Universalis (History strategy 1350-ish to 1815)
>
> The Sims2 (You've heard of it, yes?)
>
> Age of Empires
>
> Stronghold
>
> Colonisation
>
> Age of Mythology
>
> SimCity
>
> etc etc.
>
> Kind regards,
> Devi

Dude! That's almost exactly my list of favorite games. Add:
Age of Empires II
Diner Dash
Tropico
Riddle of the Sphinx
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In article <1130093152.fc86b05f0cbefa38f5898cdc424bb0b1@teranews>,
Patrick Weigel <Patrick462 RemoveThis @aol.com> wrote:

> In article <animas-5D711D.00584023102005 RemoveThis @news.ntli.net>,
> Devi Jankowicz <animas RemoveThis @ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> > In article <1h4s096.frffo09xt8x0N%pfjamesAT@clara.co.uk>,
> > pfjamesAT RemoveThis @clara.co.uk (Peter James) wrote:
> >
> > > I've just come to the Mac after many years as a Windows user. I do miss
> > > some of the games I played on the PC. UT2004 is one game I particularly
> > > miss. Can anyone on this NG tell me their favourite Mac game. I need
> > > something to do these long autumnal evenings.
> >
> > My ow n favourites are
> >
> > X2: The Threat (an accomplished graphic strategy game based,on Elite,
> > involving space trading and first-person piloting and shooting).
> >
> > Homeworld2 (Another graphic space strategy game)
> >
> > Europa Universalis (History strategy 1350-ish to 1815)
> >
> > The Sims2 (You've heard of it, yes?)
> >
> > Age of Empires
> >
> > Stronghold
> >
> > Colonisation
> >
> > Age of Mythology
> >
> > SimCity
> >
> > etc etc.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Devi
>
> Dude! That's almost exactly my list of favorite games. Add:
> Age of Empires II
> Diner Dash
> Tropico
> Riddle of the Sphinx

Yeay!
MInd you, right now I am deeply engrossed in Second Life and probably
won't be playing of the above for quite a while...

Kind regards,
Devi
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On 21/10/05 10:44, in article 1h4s096.frffo09xt8x0N%pfjamesAT@clara.co.uk,
"Peter James" <pfjamesAT.RemoveThis@clara.co.uk> wrote:

> I've just come to the Mac after many years as a Windows user. I do miss
> some of the games I played on the PC. UT2004 is one game I particularly
> miss. Can anyone on this NG tell me their favourite Mac game. I need
> something to do these long autumnal evenings.

You can get UT2004 for Mac...

My favorites at the moment are Close Combat: First to Fight (can't get past
that stupid MG in that corridor) and Command&Conquer: Zero Hour (especially
in multiplayer, alltime fave).

I wish I could get X2 to work, my problem is on my Powerbook keyboard there
are some keys missing I apparently need to play (pg up, pg down, home, end),
and I have not found so far a way to reassign the keys. Anybody?

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pfjamesAT DeleteThis @clara.co.uk (Peter James) writes:

>I've just come to the Mac after many years as a Windows user. I do miss
>some of the games I played on the PC. UT2004 is one game I particularly
>miss. Can anyone on this NG tell me their favourite Mac game. I need
>something to do these long autumnal evenings.

My favorites are ``Europa Universalis II'', ``Hearts of Iron'',
and ``Victoria'' -- I think that if I can ever figure out the challenge
of keeping a positive cash-flow the last may be my favorite of all, based
on the level of endless fiddling that can be done over every bit of all
sorts of points. (The VickyWiki ``Victoria'' Wikipedia is essential to
understanding the game at all, though.)

Alas, I don't have nearly the time I want to play these.

I can play ``Railroad Tycoon III'' on the iMac in my office, but
since I'm shy about playing games on a work computer I haven't had the
chance to do more than get my feet wet. The waters are very friendly,
and I can begrudgingly admit they're making great use of the video card;
it's just frustrating to me that it requires more video card power than
I can get out of my iBook.

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Joseph Nebus
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In article <1h7g5tg.11xvbmqtvlhn4N%bbottorff@nomail.com>,
bbottorff.RemoveThis@nomail.com (Boyd Bottorff) wrote:

> > 3 - if the game had an editor, etc. it will NOT be available for the mac
>
> Most of the games I've picked up had an editor.

Yea, a lot do, but I'd really like editors for Heroes of Might and Magic
III and NeverWinter Nights.

> > 4 - the mac version will cost you at least $15 more, and skimp on the
> > packaging/manual/etc. as much as possible(think bargain PC version at
> > premium price)
>
> If there's a large disparity, it usually vanishes faster than the usual
> timed-price-drop.

I wish that would happen finally to NeverWinter Nights.

Greg B.

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