From Lion Entertainment, Inc. and MacSoft comes the Macintosh version of Quake. Originally developed by id Software, the company responsible for the first-person shooter Doom and its sequel Doom II, Quake includes enhanced movement features that not only allow your characters to jump up and down but gives them the ability to turn 360 degrees and look up and down as well.

Quake contains four episodes, each divided into sublevels, and features a wide variety of objects with which to interact. Secret doors, pressure plates, motion detectors, buttons and floor plates are just some of the items awaiting discovery. You fight vicious monsters (the lumbering Shambler and grenade toting Ogres) with an arsenal of weaponry including such weapons as nail guns, a rocket and grenade launcher, shotgun, perforator, axe and more. During your adventure, you encounter many hazards such as wind tunnels, water and lava as well as a few anti-gravity rooms.

Special features for the Macintosh release include optimization for PowerPCs, the ability to play against opponents using either PC or Macintosh computers over a LAN, the Internet or modem and a True Mac interface for easy customization of the many options. Multi-player action supports cooperative, deathmatch (cutthroat) and team games.

Have you fragged your quota of bad guys today? If not, enter the fray and make the monsters Quake with fear of your bad self. ~ Michael L. House, All Game Guide

Quake (MAC)

GENRE/STYLE:

Shooter/First-Person Shooter
RELEASE DATE:

--/--/97
TOP TRAITS:

FPS, Quake world, Action shooter
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From Lion Entertainment, Inc. and MacSoft comes the Macintosh version of Quake. Originally developed by id Software, ... more

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Quake (MAC) by: dowekeller

“This is the earliest FPS that really feels like a modern FPS to me, it's natural to control with the mouse and arrow keys, oh yeah, and its hella fun!”

created 01/NOV/2009

dowekeller played Quake on 10/OCT/09

“Advanced one more level while waiting for my flaky DSL to unflake.”

created 10/OCT/2009

My Top 5 Influential Games by: tibbon

“1) Ultima Online - Totally broke the mold and pushed for a world of immense freedom and flexibility. I feel they screwed it up later on. I miss the anarchy of 1997's beta. 2) Betrayal at Krondor -...”

created 09/OCT/2009

colliny2k was the last to comment - about 1 month ago...

“I need to take a step back in time and try most of these. Growing up I seem to have missed a few big ones...only one of the 5 of you picked I actually played, which is Quake.

I actually own Ultima Online...new and still sealed in wrapper. I won it in at one of the ctrl-alt-del lan parties a couple years ago...but figured it's one of those games that was amazing for its time, but just wouldn't translate over the years.”

tibbon was the last to comment - about 1 month ago...

“@colliny2k Krondor is now freely downloadable (legally) online somewhere. I tried it out again and it is impressive, but it does show its age quite a bit. If you can get past that, its pretty damn good still.

Baldur's Gate is still freaking amazing. Another great one (maybe even better?) is Planescape.

I'm not sure how well UO has translated. Its still maintained and they just released another content pack, so that's pretty cool. They also have a 3d-hybrid client that I think is supposed to work pretty well.

And FFII is still well worth playing.

One thing I've noticed about older games is that they are actually hard! New games step you through simple tutorials, have tons of carebear stages and easy monsters. Everything is also intutitive and well explained. Older games (for better or worse) don't have this and aren't as welcoming to new users always.

I'm playing Fallout 1/2 right now and DAMN, those are 100x harder than Fallout 3. Fallout 3 I didn't die until I was out of the vault and ran into a super mutant while all I had was a crappy rifle. Fallout 1, there's a good chance of dying on your first monster. ”

a2nt was the last to comment - about 1 month ago...

“Quake blew me away. I ran it on a very low end PC, slow LAN and it still looked great.”

ChangeAgent was the last to comment - about 1 month ago...

“Man, some RPG madness in there. I keep trying to put together my top 5 but that is a small list :)”

tibbon was the last to comment - about 1 month ago...

“@a2nt Yea, I remember that it was the de-facto lan party game because it could run on nearly anything unless you had a 386SX or 286.

I also remember when Sony came out with their first netbook like computers in 1996 dreaming about getting a tiny computer to run Quake on and travel. ”

tibbon was the last to comment - about 1 month ago...

“@ChangeAgent Yea its definitely RPG heavy, but I was really thinking about what influenced me. I've been really happy to see a lot of newer games incorporate RPG elements (levels, skills, etc) even if they aren't RPGs.

I had an NES/SNES and C64 when I was a kid, but never got as much into the newer systems until recently. I missed the N64/Playstation thing and was entirely PC then. Zelda 1 was influential on my imagination more than anything else, but not as much for story, depth or gameplay.

Other things that were big for me were Nethack, Braid, 7th Guest and early Sierra games.

I'm REALLY enjoying playing through the new Monkey Island game too. I <3 Steam. ”

Tarinth was the last to comment - about 1 month ago...

“Baldur's Gate = teh awesome. Can you say 'Butt Kicking for Goodness'?

I'm glad you also included Betrayal at Krondor. One of the best RPG's of the 90's, but mostly forgotten. Great game. They tried to make a sequel but forgot about everything that made the first one so good...”

tibbon was the last to comment - about 1 month ago... show previous hide previous

“@Tarinth Krondor was also one of the first games that offered a fully voice acted script if you bought the CD (I didn't, so I missed on it).

The sequels (there were actually two) were definitely bad. I did however get a bit into Feist's books in my early teens, which were fun. ”

dowekeller played Quake on 15/SEP/09

“Played me a level of Quake while waiting for a video to load”

created 15/SEP/2009

dowekeller played Quake on 11/SEP/09

“I like playing a level of a game like Quake, Doom, Wolf3d or Duke Nukem when I'm waiting for videos to load on Youtube. The levels on these games are short enough that they just give you a little...”

created 11/SEP/2009

dowekeller was the last to comment - 2 months ago... show previous hide previous

“What I find interesting is some videos load so fast I can nearly stream them, while others especially "Classic Game Room HD", take for ever to load. I think they are all on the same servers and at the same resolution if they aren't HD which CGRHD isn't, so they should load just as fast as the other.”