dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) (12/18/90)
We just got a Mac IIsi as a Christmas present for the whole family, and I'm trying to find good color games to run on it, for individual Christmas presents. I've got a few, but I need help finding more. Requirements: 1) compatible with IIsi, 2) uses color. (Color is important because we've had a B&W Mac since 1985.) Here are some brief comments on what I've found so far. This is based on a few minutes each, just booting them to see whether they run. Pipe Dream - looks great. Not a Tetris wannabee, but like it in that it needs thinking ahead and fast decision-making. A winner, I think. Color SimEarth - can't evaluate yet. Looks considerably more complicated than SimCity, which we all like very much (in B&W). Balance of the Planet - Minimal use of color. Looks great for education but I kinda doubt it will be fun as a game. Hammurabi-like. Darwin's Dilemma - Basically a solitare game. The object is to slide playing pieces around to match up pairs. OK. Number Maze, Decimals & Fractions - Haven't opened yet, but says on the box (!) that it works on the IIsi. Number Maze (vanilla version) is a really neat educational game on the Mac+. Solarian II - great arcade game (shareware, $25). Shanghai - We've had this on the Mac+ for some time. It is absolutely gorgeous in color, but not completely compatible with the IIsi--the first game works fine, but it bombs trying to start a second or open a saved game. (Maybe this has been fixed?) Color MacCheese - (OK, it's not a game!) We got this as soon as we got the IIsi. It's a little buggy, but a great little low-cost paint program. OK, here's my question (complaint, whatever). None of these seem really suitable for my 12-year-old daughter. What I think she'd most like is a graphic adventure game, such as the old ones we have for an Apple II+. She likes Wishbringer on the Mac+, but hasn't solved it. She does not care for shoot-em-up arcade games. Sierra makes some games that might have been OK--King's Quest and Space Quest--but these are incompatible with the IIsi. Are there ANY graphic adventure games--in color and preferably not too hard--for the Mac? Anybody? -- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com) -- Unisys Corp. / Paoli Research Center / PO Box 517 / Paoli PA 19301 -- Any resemblance between my opinions and those of my employer is improbable. < You can put a mouse on an IBM. And you can put a radio on a motorcycle. >
darweesh@zephyrus.crd.ge.com (Michael Darweesh) (12/18/90)
I just wrote a new Shareware game with Color and sound called Bonk. It's been posted to comp.sys.mac.binaries and to sumex, but hasnt' shown up yet. It's a take-off from the "Whac-a-mole" in the real-life arcades where you bonk the critters on the head. It's not the next Solarian II, but it's pretty neat. If you or anyone is interested, either drop me a line and I'll e-mail a copy, or ftp to that new Michigan ftp archive (it's already there), or just wait 'till it shows-up on comp.binaries.mac. -Mike Darweesh weesh@crd.ge.com