Mac Games on iOS

mossy_11

I wrote this article on Mac|Life that lists 10 classic Mac games you can play on iOS, following a chat with Niemann that stemmed from my discovery of Spaceward Ho! for iPad.

But there are a lot more than 10, so I thought we could list them all here.

So there's the ones in my article:

Spaceward Ho!
Glider Classic
StuntCopter (which has a new feature-complete iPad version)
Crystal Quest
Spectre 3D
Zone Warrior
Myst
Marathon 1
Spin Doctor
Otto Matic

plus:

Riven: The Sequel to Myst
The Manhole (unfortunately the remake, not the original)
Prince of Persia (Mac version was ported but has since been removed)
Bugdom 2
Cro-Mag Rally
Nanosaur 2
Enigmo 1
Enigmo 2
SimStapler
Jared
Glypha
Marathon 2: Durandal
Yoot Tower (SimTower)
AliceX (Alice aka Through the Looking Glass; no longer available)

Any others?

MetalDragon

Found Yoot Tower, 6€ though... not sure if I would really play it or just look at it and drool because I know it from my youth. ;)

I didn't find FlashBack though, but Another World (aka. Out of this World)

Prince of Persia, is only available for iPhone and has new graphics?

too bad that PoP, Myst, Riven, Spin Doctor are iPhone only. :(

@mossy why not split the list for iPhone and iPad

Bob Kiwi

Awesome list, I have a few of these already, but didn't know about Spin Doctor. Man, I loved that thing on my old Performa 631CD B) I'll definitely be buying that to go along with Stuntcopter and Glider Classic (which also has a Mac App Store version too)

As for additions, the only thing that comes to mind are classic games that saw Classic Mac ports, like the Secret of Monkey Island 1 and 2 games from Telltale games. They are HD-ized, but have the ability to swap back. Also, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, etc. but at that point they aren't so much Mac Games as games we saw on the Mac. I tried Wolfenstein 3D, but it has different music and voices (they may be the PC voices, but not the original Mac German voices I grew up with, then found out weren't the standard voices...)

MetalDragon

Dang, just yesterday evening I had the same idea! And I came to that idea as I thought that something as SimTower would be cool on the iPad. Now that I saw that you list Yoot Tower I did a quick search and found...nothing :( Seems like it isn't available in Germany? Or is it iPad only (I just searched on the iPhone as I don't have the iPad with me right now).

mossy_11

It's iPad only. It is available in Germany, though, as far as I can tell (it showed up on the German version of the iTunes store when I switched to it).

jetboy

Cheers... didn't know that half of those were available on iOS. Just downloading Marathon 2 now!

Does Flashback count as one? I think they've used the Amiga version (maybe?) but Flashback was available for MacOS. I guess things like Broken Sword and Beneath a Steel Sky were also available on MacOS.

finkmac

You forgot Jared...

mossy_11

Of course! How could I forget the infamous Jared? I'll add it to the list.

The App Store reviews are hilarious—everyone who gets the joke or appreciates the ridiculousness calls it brilliant; the rest get angry and rate it 1 star. (I vaguely recall that SimStapler gets even more venom thrown at it; we long-time Mac users still have our inside jokes, it seems.)

mossy_11

Oh, I didn't realise that the port of the Mac port of PoP had been removed—it was called Prince of Persia Retro. The "Prince of Persia Classic" app has a separate HD version for iPad.

I'll just add a note by the names for now of apps that are iPad-only or iPhone-only. If I get time later I'll rearrange and split the list.

finkmac

C'mon PangeaSoft, release Weekend Warrior, Nanosaur, and Bugdom on the App Store...

MetalDragon

Is it just me, or is Marathon unplayable thanks to the controls?

dickmedd

An action game ported to iOS that suffers from bad controls? NEVER.

mossy_11

I struggled with the touch controls, too (as I mentioned in my article). I think it has some kind of gamepad support—maybe look into that?

Squishy Tia

mossy_11 wrote:
I struggled with the touch controls, too (as I mentioned in my article). I think it has some kind of gamepad support—maybe look into that?

Other than the mouselook (which does help immensely on a few select levels with very high/low perch points where enemies snipe at you from), gamepad controls work very well for this game. I use such myself since mouse/kb hurts me after a while (I play the desktop Aleph One iteration).