This looks awesome. More pledges needed to make this book a reality. Worth it.
From the Synopsis:
Mac gaming welcomed strange ideas and encouraged experimentation. It fostered passionate and creative communities who inspired and challenged developers to do better and to follow the Mac mantra “think different”.
The Secret History of Mac Gaming is the story of those communities and the game developers who survived and thrived in an ecosystem that was serially ignored by the outside world. It’s a book about people who made games and people who played them — people who, on both counts, followed their hearts first and market trends second. How in spite of everything they had going against them, the people who carried the torch for Mac gaming in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s showed how clever, quirky, and downright wonderful videogames could be.
An amazing list of contributors. Take a look.
I didn’t play them all, but I saw a few games I played a lot in that video. Fun times. Almost makes me want to resurrect my beige G3 so I can play EV again. 😉
If I recall correctly, there are plugins for EV Nova that let you play EV and EVO on the Nova engine. But you still need an earlier version of OS X – I think my last successful boot was under 10.6. So you may not need as anything as old as a beige G3 (I’ve been tempted to pick up a G4 iMac just so I can play EVN again, and maybe run the Classic environment for Strategic Conquest’s final iteration…)
Sold!
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I have a couple of 2006 MacBooks that are still running. I might have to try running it on one of them.