Requirements: Power Mac, Mac OS 9.x or OS X 10.0 or later
Attention all you Martha Stewarts, Emeril Lagasses, Iron Chefs, and Chef Boyardees of the world—this massive database contains over 1,000 fine cuisine recipes that’ll have you cookin’ up more than microwave Budget Gourmet meals or popcorn in no time. You can use it as a standalone cookbook app to discover new recipes or add your own to the hulking database. It not only features a beautifully-designed, graphical interface and a helpful conversions menu, it allows you to search for recipes by item, category, type, or servings. So don’t just sit there—cook us something already! This package contains both Classic and OS X versions.
Requirements: 333MHz G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS 9.x with OpenGL 1.2.1 and CarbonLib 1.6 or OS X 10.1 or later, 128MB RAM, Rage 128 with 8MB VRAM or better graphics card
What lurks beneath the deep blue sea? More than you think in this 3D underwater action game. Pilot your underwater vessel through other worldly terrain as you chase your enemies and do battle against alien colonies. Collect energy and better weapons along the way to aid in your mission. The game features different challenges and diverse alien races to master across multiple levels. This package contains the full game, but will run in demo mode until you register it.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.0 or later, 128MB RAM, OpenGL acceleration
Need to meet a deadline? Got homework to do? Don’t play this game! Energy, the Petanque Factory is a completely addictive, colorful puzzle game that has you sorting rolling petanque balls by color into their proper color base. Get enough like-colored balls into the bases, and they’ll energize to free the bases for more. It’s kind of a unique twist to distant cousin Tetris. The game features beautiful graphics, arcade-style play, 100 levels, and more.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.0 or later
If you’re a fan of bowling or HyperBowl at your local arcade, this 3D bowling game just might satisfy your cravings. Gutterball features three uniquely funky alleys, outspoken commentators, and over a dozen customizable bowling balls—just toss the ball with your mouse and steer it down the lane to knock down the pins.
Hang3000 2.1—Shareware
Ken Winograd, ken@winograd.com, http://www.winograd.com
Requirements: Power Mac, Mac OS 9.x or OS X
This kitschy Hangman game comes with Wild Western graphics and some overly dramatic, retro lo-fi sound bytes, which you can customize. What? Never heard of hangman?!. Basically, it’s a guessing game where you try to guess the word or phrase by tossing out letters. Guess wrong and body parts get drawn until you’re left with a hangman, which means you lose.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1 or later, 64MB RAM, OpenGL supported graphics accelerator
This amusing and way too fun, 3D action/arcade game has you shooting your orb at targets placed throughout 14 uniquely themed obstacle courses in a race to score the most points. But beware of the Magnets, which can attract or repel your orb off-course. This well-designed game even takes environmental physics into play as you attempt to shoot your orb through water, on sand, across ice, and more as you tackle each course. The game features colorful 3D graphics, diverse terrains (you’ll witness falling snow, waterfalls and rainbows, tombstones in the darkness, sandy beaches, steely construction sites, cliff-side castles, and more), wacky power-ups (such as Curse of the Goober, Sticky Shot, and Money Shot), solo and multiplayer support, and more.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.0 or later
This pseudo-Connect Four-type game has you challenging either your Mac (who happens to be very good at this game) or a friend to line up four “perls” in a row on the 3D pegboard.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.0.1 or later
SpongeBob SquarePants meets Tetris? Well, sort of. In this colorfully cute, 2D animated game, your quest is to remove groups of two or more quirky QBz characters. Try to build up the largest group of one color before you remove them to score the big points.
ScummVM 0.4.1—Donationware
ScummVM, http://scummvm.sourceforge.net
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, OS X 10.0 or later, any supported LucasArts game
Miss playing a few of your old LucasArts games when you made the leap to OS X and left OS 9 in the dust? Wipe away those tears—ScummVM is here! This cool tool is an implementation of LucasArts’ S.C.U.M.M. (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) interpreter, and allows you to run some of your old Lucas games on OS X, including Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Sam and Max, Full Throttle, and Day of the Tentacle. And yes, you must have the original games to play. Keep in mind that this software is a work in progress—check ScummVM’s Web site for program updates and be sure to check out http://scummvm.org/compatibility.php for up-to-the-minute game compatibility details.
Requirements: 700MHz G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.2.6 or later, 256MB RAM, 32MB video card (Radeon/GeForce 2MX or better)
If you’re dying to get your hands on Unreal Tournament 2003, you can satiate yourself with this demo, which offers four maps. For the uninitiated, Unreal Tournament is a first-person, shoot-everything-that-moves action game that allows multiplayer combat whether you’re hooked up to the Internet or not. The sequel boasts better graphics, gameplay, and sound than its predecessor—imagine running through scorching flames, billowing smoke, lush plant life, and war-torn landscapes. Superior warriors and weaponry also make their mark in this game.
