Hellboy

Time for this post’s only addendum- I just got this compilation set recently for cheap, and I finally have these games I’ve been wanting to own for years now.

I’m still working on some art stuff, so I figured I’d try something different. Here is my Mac games collection I built up earlier this June and August, part of a final push before I stopped retro game collecting entirely (it’s expensive yo, and it was getting toxic to where I sold off or donated a good chunk of it but I digress).

Around that time I had transitioned over to the Apple ecosystem entirely because I had seriously bad luck with crappy laptops and a badly built gaming PC - I’m the sort of person that would want to just plug something in and not worry about if a component is broken or whatever. Not to mention, it felt more interesting for me looking at Mac versions of popular PC games (well, that and Win/Mac titles).

What astounded me these few months collecting these games were the following:

Holy cow, these games were rare. Mac games are not easy to find, I think that’s obvious to retro game, computer or Mac collectors. A lot of them were like $30-100 on eBay. Luckily I didn’t pay that much for these games, BUT Ghost Recon, No One Lives Forever and the Rainbow Six games are easily the rarest out of my collection. Republic: the Revolution was the only one I found at a thrift store. Win/Mac titles like the Blizzard franchises and dinky edutainment titles are easier to come by.

A lot of boomer shooters were given Mac ports. Again, the aforementioned Ghost Recon, No One Lives Forever and the Rainbow Six games, but Aliens vs Predator, SoF II, RTCW, the CoDs…I was not expecting to find Mac versions of Black Hawk Down, Prey and Allied Assault.

Guess what? You still needed to dink around with specific Mac models (namely the Power Macs in this case, most of these games are OSX) to get these games working. You still needed good video cards and CPUs and all that stuff. Of course Intel chipset only games are there, that’s a bit different but I’m not that much of an expert on Intel Macs.

Where could I get these games back in the day? From what I saw, CompUSA and Best Buy and GameStop, and Apple Stores. Yeah, you could buy physical boxed Mac games at Apple Stores…boy, did I miss out on that!

Porting: native Mac versions of these games were ported irregularly, sometimes in a handful of months, or taking a year or more to be ported. I like to think it wasn’t due to porting difficulties and more to the install base, Apple being…Apple and publishers being like “yeah nah can’t justify this, better give it to these third party companies”. Ghost Recon’s Mac port came around the same time as its console ports. Meanwhile, the Mac version of Need for Speed Carbon, which I don’t have, came out two years after the game released (2006…Mac in 2008!!).

Makes you think that *gasp* Macs are viable PC gaming outlets! Well, just recently - took Apple long enough to pull their head out of their ass to realize that with Apple Arcade and their Silicon Macs supporting games like Cyberpunk 2077, the ResiEvil remakes and RoboCop of all things. Still, figured I’d look at an oft forgotten piece of gaming history.

Maybe I should share the rest of my collections next, idk

Kill ‘Em All 'Loaded’ PlayStation Support us on Patreon

Mew ‘Jet Set Radio’ SEGA Dreamcast Support us on Patreon

Man, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? I apologize if I haven’t updated in a while. Just been in a slight funk, even though some really cool and big things are happening on my end.

That said, I gotta draw stuff that isn’t just CN and OCs - so here’s my favorite retro games! Well, maybe Kid Icarus Uprising isn’t retro…yet. I’m still holding out for a new Tin Star and Tempo, dammit!

Gamecube girl's Wii wife is back from her run :3 (she/her for both) [commissions are open! info here]

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Howdy y’all! Time for an update. I hope everyone is having a merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah and Kwanzaa by the time they’re reading this!

I have to admit I wasn’t too happy with my initial drawings here. They seemed funnier in my head, and I feel like I rushed them out for clout - I feel like they were sloppy overall, and that I can do better (especially the Dexter/Stellar Blade one - ewww. Stellar Blade kindof stinks as a game).

That said, I am planning to change things up a bit with my artwork and go for something far more exaggerated and stylized and changing my socials and OC designs to reflect that, but it’ll take time. Consider this an early test run. I’ll update everything when I get the chance.

Speaking of socials, I may start posting on Instagram and another site soon (maybe, assuming it’s not banned or whatever). Insta will feature my recipes and meals, and that other site will have timelapse drawings. However, I’ll be sporadic on all sites because I don’t want to have serious mental health issues.

I’ll start posting more often soon starting in January. And hoo boy, do I have some art to post!

reading is fun…?