Saturday Link Dump – Video Game Special
Bstrd Tetris uses an algorithm to send you the least helpful game piece next, instead of a random selection. There are ways around this, of course, but I think that defeats the fun of the frustration. Sadly, it’s a *NIX-only game right now. Viva La Linux.
“The complete soundtrack to Super Mario World, covered by one man using dozens of instruments. Roughly in game order, faithful to the originals, with some bizarre artistic license thrown around.”
Play Nintendo’s Duck Hunt on-line. It was more fun with the gun, but that’s banned by Geneva Convention these days. Poor kids.
Recursive Gamer? (Spotted on BoingBoing.)
Apple game developers react to news of the big MacTel switch.
GrandTheftendo – It’s Grand Theft Auto for the original 8-bit Nintendo.
25. June 2005 at 14:38
Apple has game developers?
26. June 2005 at 14:48
Not particularly. Most of the “developers” for Mac games actually just port from the PC side. The only major development house making games for Macs these days is Blizzard (hooray for hybrid disks, instead of having to hope for a single copy of a game misfiled with the Mac educational software!) and since they do both systems, they won’t be affected by this at all.
Really, I think from a Mac gamers’ standpoint (and those DO exist), this can’t help but be good news, since they won’t have to be reliant on a handful of porting houses to get PC games a year or more after all their friends played them.