3D Bridge Deluxe is a great way for beginners to learn the game with its own teaching AI that will give you enough of the basics to play online with real people and get rankings on the GameSmith Game Server
 
OS Compatibility: OS 9, X
 

Play Hearts with dozens of colorful computer opponents or online against real people from around the globe. 3D Hearts Deluxe makes it as simple as a few clicks of the mouse!
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9, X
 

Bubble Trouble is a classic arcade game in which cutthroat fishies are playing hardball in a squabble over some very wet turf. Think of it as splatball for insufferably cute seafaring critters (hey, they need their fun too). Bubble Trouble's world is filled with lusciously-drawn cartoony critters who give that cranky crab from The Little Mermaid a run for his money. But money isn't what you'll be running from: an otherwise peaceful fish bowl has been filled with bubbles that are being tossed around in an enthralling game of Squish the Fish!
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9, X
 

Help Skip find his knapsack. It was stolen by Bully Bee and with the help of all your Bugdom friends, finding it will be a fun adventure. This sequel to Rollie McFly’s earlier adventure takes you through new lands, with lots of action inside the local house.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 9, X
 

With a full-featured engine, Burning Monkey Solitaire 2 lets you experience solitaire like never before. Customize your deck, the music, or the speed of gameplay. If you're stuck in a rut, turn on auto-play, or take advantage of the fully-featured cheat features - but don't expect to escape without a taunting! You can even hide the game from whoever you'd like (boss, spouse, kids, local representative) with a quick key stroke, or find out just why it's called Burning Monkey Solitaire.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9, X
 

Popular throughout the English speaking world, Cribbage demands quick wits, attention to detail, and more than a little cunning. Once you've played Classic Cribbage, you won't want to stop!
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9, X
 

Drive your Flintstone's-esque stone and wood racer through many different ancient landscapes. Just don't let any of your opponents gonk you on the head during the race!
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9, X
 

Like the famed combination of peanut butter and chocolate, CrossCards takes two great elements, poker and Freeverse's X-Words, and makes them even better by combining them!
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9, X
 

Commandeer a fighter plane over a Martian moon. The twitch factor is high, and the action smooth. The drawbacks are annoying limitations on restarts and a frustrating learning curve.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9, X
 
Reviewed in April 2002
http://www.macworld.com/2002/04/reviews/gameroom.html

 

Put yourself in the driver's seat without putting yourself in grave peril. Be like Jason Priestly without all the nasty broken bones! (Or the hair.) Seriously, F1 Championship Series 2000 is a top-flight race car driving game, featuring all the Formula 1 courses from the 2000 season. It lets you recreate battles between your favorite F1 drivers, as well as race the records on every track. If you're one of those folks always found inside the racing cars at the local video arcade, this game is definitely for you.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 9, X
 

In Ghost Recon, Russia has fallen to ultra-nationalistic leaders driven to rebuild the Iron Curtain. In Desert Siege, 60-year conflict boils over as Ethiopia invades its smaller neighbor Eritrea, threatening the world's most vital shipping lanes in the Red Sea. Command this elite team of U.S. Army Green Berets through a series of demolitions, search and rescue missions and all-out fights for survival. Select, train and lead the offensive spearhead as the first team deployed and the last team to leave. Ghost Recon and the Desert Siege expansion pack put you in the deadly, realistic combat of tomorrow's battlefields like no other game. If you meet them in combat, you're already dead.
 
OS Compatibility: OS X
 
Note: Click here to install the update for Ghost Recon.
 

Pinball may be a niche market for Mac gamers, but you can't do better than what this game has to offer. Jinni Zeala is a near-flawless execution of the challenging solid-state pinball game for your Mac.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9, X
 
Reviewed in August 2002
http://www.macworld.com/2002/08/reviews/gameroom.html

 

Several years have passed since Kyle avenged his father's death and saved the Valley of the Jedi from Jerec and his band of Dark Jedi. Allowing his Force powers to languish for fear of falling to the dark side, Kyle entrusted his lightsaber to Luke Skywalker, vowing never to use it again. But when a new and menacing threat to the galaxy emerges, Kyle knows he must reclaim his past in order to save his future. Players assume the role of Kyle as they employ a unique mix of weapons, Force powers and your lightsaber in both single- and multiplayer modes.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 9, X
 

Take a surrealistic trip back to the playgrounds of your childhood as you roll in Marble Blast. A combination of skill and luck, you move through various and challenging mazes, for lack of a better word. Sometimes it is as simple as rolling around looking for gems. Sometimes it's trying to figure out how to cross that giant gap without falling (what seems like thousands of feet) into the pond below. Various power-ups make your task slightly easier, but let's just say this game can be tough! The perfect puzzle for someone who loves a good challenge.
 
OS Compatibility: OS X
 

This third-person 3-D action game features lush color and a plot straight out of Hollywood B movies. Its graphics and music are excellent, but you can't save a game at certain points during play.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9, X
 
Reviewed in February 2002

 

Your Mission: Assume the role of Cate Archer, a beautiful but deadly Operative working for UNITY - a super secret organization fighting to free the world from the clutches of H.A.R.M. From tense subterfuge to in-your-face combat, No One Lives Forever™ ups the ante for plot-driven, 1960's-influenced spy action with killer weapons, vivid international locales and deadly arch villains. Equipped with an arsenal of powerful weapons and ingenious gadgets, you must unravel a mystery that will lead you halfway around the world in a desperate search for answers.
 
OS Compatibility: OS X

Gidolan Keep lays under seige. Huge monsters, all tooth, claw, and muscle are assaulting the capitol city, threatening to crush the very heart of the kingdom in their malignant grasp. Welcome to Pillars of Garendall, a huge epic fantasy role playing game created using the Coldstone game engine. You'll need a sharp-edged blade and a heart of steel to make it through this unique action-oriented role playing game.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9, X
 

This crazy, psychedelic action game takes one of the original arcade game concepts — Breakout — and mixes it with the fearsome combat of a martial arts fighting game. This end result is unmistakably challenging, addictive, hypnotic, and loads of fun. Pop Pop sports an enormously appealing visual style that's a bit of Hello Kitty and a bit of Powerpuff Girls and a few hits of double-blotter acid for good measure.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9, X
 
Reviewed in January 2003

 

This first-person shooter delivers gorgeous graphics, compelling online play, and loads of nasty monsters and bad guys. If the steep system requirements don't put you off, this is definitely a good take.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 9, X
 
Reviewed in August 2002
http://www.macworld.com/2002/08/reviews/gameroom.html

 

Sheep is challenging and cute at the same time, not a combination you find in every game. It does not offer any native OS X support.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9
 
Reviewed in May 2002
http://www.macworld.com/2002/05/reviews/gameroom.html

 

Reprise the role of John Mullins: Weapons Specialist, Anti-Terrorist Mercenary, and "Military Consultant." A new and insidious threat has arisen in the form of a bio-terrorist organization and their two-pronged Gemini Virus. Now, you're off on a transcontinental mission to stop the terrorists and destroy the virus before it's unleashed on humanity.
 
OS Compatibility: OS X

The destiny of a galaxy hangs in the balance and you're in command. Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds lets you lead the armies of Star Wars to victory in intense, real-time strategy clashes. Enter the fray as Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire, the Rebel Alliance with a legion of Jedi, the greedy Trade Federation, the Royal Naboo and other civilizations in campaigns that will determine the final outcome of the Galactic Civil War. You are able to manage your resources and upgradeable technology into your strategy, such as Wookiee ingenuity, advanced Gungan biotechnology, and Jedi stamina. The action continues as you are able to command X-wing fighters, Tie fighters, Imperial Walkers, and other famed Star Wars vehicles. Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds: Face your destiny!
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9, X
 

As in its predecessors, in Warcraft III you build a world and defend it against marauders. But this sequel adds a whole new dimension of flexibility, simplifying your role as god of this virtual world to one more akin to leader. The game also features terrific multiplayer action over LANs or via Battle.net, Blizzard's own free Internet gaming service, although you'll find a tremendous challenge in the game's built-in multiplayer AI.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 9, X
 
Reviewed in January 2003

 

If you like flying planes and have an Internet connection, you'll probably want to join this squadron. Fighting missions in a persistent online realm, you can get a kind of deathmatch feel while still enjoying all the cool aspects of flying old fighters.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 9, X
 

Worms Blast is a full-on sea-borne adventure, with a quirky crew of all new Worms messing about in boats. It's sink or swim! Whether it's a single player sortie or a two-player deathmatch, you will need cool strategic thinking and dynamite natural reflexes to triumph in this addictive action-puzzle game. Worm your way through 60 fun-sized missions with an awesome array of fearsome firepower. Slippery sea monsters, boat-wrecking piranhas and irresistible fish food are all at your disposal. So select your weapon... aim... and blast away. It's pure wormage! Just make sure you don't end up sleeping with the fishes.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 9, X
 

X-Words Deluxe is a fun, educational crosswords game much like Scrabble, but with a wide variety of boards, vocabulary lists and languages.
 
OS Compatibility: OS 8-9, X