Macintosh Plus Gaming Gallery

July 17, 2007

I recently sold my original Macintosh 128 to help fund the purchase of a HD camcorder. (I knew I'd never dedicate desk space to it, what with my rather functional Mac Plus setup, and it seemed a shade lonely sitting on the shelf in its carrying bag.) I used the aforementioned Mac Plus to get the system disks all squared away for the buyer. After that was taken care of, I spent some time fiddling with various games on the Plus' hard drive. It's easy to forget the kind of fresh, unique titles that a high resolution (512x342 looks pretty tight on a 9-inch screen), monochrome platform brings forth. Some of the games are downright gorgeous.

In an effort to share the experience with those who never owned a compact Mac, I grabbed my camera and tri-pod and started snapping "screenshots" of various titles. Digital photos of the screen, as opposed to honest to goodness screenshots, give a much better feel of the compact Mac gaming expreience, revealing the faint scanlines (as faint as they came, back in its day) and pleasant, blusih tint to the Mac's screen phosphor.

Have a look at the gallery of shots I've placed online. I'm still adding to it, so stop back in a few days and have another look.

Posted by blakespot at July 17, 2007 3:19 PM
Comments

Those are some AWESOME games you have there!

Posted by: Nightengale at July 19, 2007 2:30 AM

You have an Amiga 2000?
Tizzzzzight.

Posted by: Beebers at July 19, 2007 8:08 PM

I do. See the gallery:

http://pix.blakespot.com/view/computers/amiga2000/

Posted by: blakespot at July 19, 2007 8:20 PM

The attention I've lately been giving my Mac Plus inspired me to grab an Imagewriter II printer to set up with it (and also to be used on my Apple IIgs), just to fiddle around with what WYSIWYG printing _used_ to be about. And hey, who knows when a Print Shop banner will next come in handy?

Posted by: blakespot at July 23, 2007 8:35 AM

I made some vidoes of old mac games, look at my youtube.com/slomacuser channel

Alice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd6uhfXGA6A

MacPlaymate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGD50TnhX2c

JamPlayer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz6jr3wIHZY

MusicWorks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdQJNPSw-DM

Posted by: slomacuser at August 13, 2007 2:07 AM

Quote: "I recently sold my original Macintosh 128 to help fund the purchase of a HD camcorder. "

I am so disappointed in you ... but it's OK, you'll wake up one night all sweaty and realize your mistake.

Posted by: Mac128 at September 10, 2007 1:43 AM
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