Ground Zero Software, support@GroundZeroSW.com, http://www.GroundZeroSW.com/
Requirements: G3 processor, Mac OS X or Mac OS 8.6 - 9.x (with CarbonLib)
This blast-’em-away arcade game has you piloting the “Annihilator” in order to save the solar system from ruthless alien domination. This trigger-finger killer features 3D rendered images, cool sound effects and stereo soundtrack, progressive levels, and more.
Requirements: PPC, Mac OS 8.1 or higher with CarbonLib, Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
Can you say galactic domination? Do you dream of it? If so, you’re in luck; Ambrosia’s classic shareware space colonization game lives on, this time in EV Nova. If you like it, don’t forget to pay the shareware fee! EV Nova is the third game in the Escape Velocity series, and is by far the most ambitious installment to date. With a completely redesigned gaming engine, EV Nova thrusts you into a sprawling universe dominated by a myriad of warring factions, each sharing a common bond, but so philosophically different as to make conflict inevitable. Requires a Power Mac, Mac OS 8.1 or later, and 128MB RAM.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.2 or later
One of our absolute favorite “useless” programs. This fun little app sticks a pair of eyeballs into your OS X menubar—or anywhere on your desktop—that follow whatever you do (or at least where your cursor goes). This latest version now supports skins, which allow you to totally change Eyeballs appearance—imagine a green monster or a cobweb full of eyeballs watching your every move. You can also change the color of the eyes, the shape of the pupils, and their behavior via a preference pane. Here’s looking at you, kid.
Requirements: Mac OS 10.2, PowerPC G3/G4 800 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, Hardware accelerated 3D Graphics Card with 32 Mb VRAM, QuickTime 6
With the Ford name comes some of the biggest and most famous cars ever, from the Ford '49 through to the latest Mustang GT Concept. If you know about the cars , the racing or the famous blue oval - then you deserve to take control and drive the legend.
Future Boy! release 1 demo
The General Coffee Company Film Productions, http://www.generalcoffee.com
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or later recommended; Mac OS 9.1 or later also supported. Quicktime 5 or later required.
Future Boy! is an adventure game unlike any you've ever played. It's more than interactive fiction—it's an interactive comic book, combining the excellent writing, rich story, and sophisticated game world of the best classic interactive fiction adventure games with original animation, illustrations, and music, plus a host of unique and unforgettable characters. Who is Future Boy? He's an honest-to-goodness, leaping-tall-buildings-in-a-single-bound superhero, and the masked, cape-wearing protector of Rocket City. And you his roommate. But when Future Boy is captured by self-proclaimed criminal supergenius Clayton Eno, who is left to save Rocket City and everyone in it, without the benefit of superpowers, using only quick-thinking and a knack for overcoming obstacles in unexpected ways? You, that's who.
Gold Strike 1.0 shareware
CleverMedia, http://www.clevermedia.com/
Requirements: Any Mac with OS 10.2 or better
The super-charged version of CleverMedia’s wildly popular Gold Strike game. You get large, brilliant graphics, four bonus game variations, personal score tracking, more music, faster animation and off-line gameplay. To play, select groups of blocks. Remove the blocks before the mine fills up. Gold blocks and artifacts score points. See how many levels deep you can go.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.0 or later
You love him. Admit it. And now he’s Carbonized! Experience the mesmerizingly dulcet crooning of your Atonal Amigo, Jared. If you miss the old Jared, you can still see him in his old, aliased state. Truly a classic!
Anyone familiar with the classic asteroids arcade game will feel right at home with this one. A classic in its own right, Maelstrom is one of Ambrosia’s flagship games that put the company in a league of its own. Pilot your spaceship through an asteroid field and exercise your trigger finger as you blast away those pesky rocks. Watch out for all the space debris hurling its way towards you and remember to put up your shields when the going gets really tough. Now Mac OS X compatible!
Pop the Wheezil 1.0.3 shareware
Ground Zero Software, support@GroundZeroSW.com, http://www.GroundZeroSW.com/
Requirements: Mac OS X native and Mac OS 8.6 - Mac OS 9.x with Apple's CarbonLib.
The object of Pop the Wheezil is to rack up as many points and complete as many levels as you can. It will require lightning-fast reflexes and quick thinking to achieve your goal! You must align different colored balloons in rows and columns as they float to the top. Your balloons will pop and disappear when four of the same color are together. You'll also find lots of goodies and surprises in each level! Complete each level by getting the Wheezil balloon to the top, popularly known as popping the Wheezil.
SimStapler enables the user to "staple" virtually anything he or she can dream up. SimStapler allows you to pretend that you are stapling two, three or even four pieces of paper together! But fake-stapling paper is just the beginning with SimStapler. You can staple Magic: The Gathering cards to Steve Jobs' turtleneck, or the Emancipation Proclamation to a 1987 headshot of William Conrad in Jake & The Fatman. Your stapling will only be limited by your powers of imagination! SimStapler is Theftware. Regular users of the program are asked to misappropriate office supplies from work and send them to Freeverse. As pure theftware SimStapler includes no copy protection or crippled features, it relies solely on the honor system.
Snood 3.0 shareware
David Dobson, dob@kagi.com, http://www.snood.com
Requirements: Mac OS 8 - 9.2.2 or Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
Snood is half puzzle game, half arcade shooter. Your goal is to remove the Snoods (little monster-type faces) from the playing field by launching other Snoods, loaded in the shooter, at them. If you can match up three similar Snoods, they’ll be transported away. It’s Tetris meets Space Invaders...
Solarian II was one of the first color games for the new color Macs that came out in 1988. It ran happily for years, but Mac OS X broke it — it never ran well under Classic. It has been ported it to Mac OS X and is now a native Cocoa application, and should be good to go for another 15 years.
Temple Tantrum 1.1.1 shareware
Ground Zero Software, support@GroundZeroSW.com, http://www.GroundZeroSW.com/
Requirements: G3 based Mac (minimum), Mac OS X or Mac OS 8.6 - 9.x (with CarbonLib)
Temple is an exploration, arcade-type game for the Macintosh, and is the latest shareware game developed by Ground Zero Software (makers of Bedlam 2.) Your ultimate goal is to complete all levels in the game, gathering as many gems, treasures and other goodies as you go, eventually retrieving the Phoenix Eye. 'Temple' contains over 100 different levels, consisting of several different divisions. Your journey begins in the courtyard but will take you through the garden, fire, maze, dungeon, tower, and treasure levels. There are also plenty of bonus levels along the way through which you can gather plenty of extra goodies. And if that's not enough, use the Temple level editor (which is available for free) to make your own custom levels.
