The Macintosh challenged games to be more than child’s play and quick reflexes. It made human–computer interaction friendly, inviting and intuitive.
Mac gaming led to much that is now taken for granted by PC gamers and spawned some of the biggest franchises in video game history. It allowed anyone to create games and playful software with ease, and gave indie developers a home for their products.
It 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’.
Drawing on archive material and interviews with key figures from the era – and featuring new material from Craig Fryar, Apple’s first Mac games evangelist and the co-creator of hit game Spectre – 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 followed their hearts first and market trends second, showing how clever, quirky, and downright wonderful video games could be.
Author(s): Richard Moss
Edition: eBook
Publisher: Unbound Digital
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 416
Tags: games, videogames, history, apple, mac, macintosh, 1984, black and white, colour, classic, videogame, game,
INTRODUCTION by Richard Moss
01 A SERIOUS MACHINE
02 NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
03 GAME DEVELOPMENT FOR THE REST OF US
04 MACVENTURERS
05 SIMULATED
06 MACINTOSH ARCADE
07 INTO A CASTLE DARKLY
08 A STORY TOLD BY TREASURE HUNT
09 APPLETALK
10 GAME WORLD, PARTY ON! by Craig Fryar
11 PENINSULA GAMEWORKS by Craig Fryar
12 MYSTERIOUS WORLDS
13 INTERACTIVE MOVIES
14 THREE DIMENSIONS
15 QUINTESSENTIALLY MAC
16 TAKING FLIGHT
17 THE MAC GAME CONSOLE
18 SHAREWARE HEROES
19 DELTA TAO
20 AMBROSIA
21 FREEVERSE
22 PANGEA
23 PORTING HOUSES
24 SPORTS SHY
25 DURANDAL
26 INSIDE MAC GAMES
27 THE FALL AND RISE OF MAC GAMING
AFTERWORD by Craig Fryar
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
SUPPORTERS
