What Games Can I Play On My Power Mac G4

Battle Chess

Chess

Cro-Mag Rally

Doom

Duke Nukem

Lemmings

Lode Runner

Marathon

Sim City

Sim Farm

The Oregon Trail

Warcraft

Warcraft II

Word Munchers

Contact the developers for the system requirements.

Mind you, I would be surprised if any games will run with only 368mb of RAM!

Klaus1 wrote:

Mind you, I would be surprised if any games will run with only 368mb of RAM!

All the games i listed were developed when 64MB of RAM was considered "a lot".

How would these work on OS X with no classic support?

All versions of OSX that can run on your computer support Classic.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1192

Mount the NetBoot9.dmg disk image. Right (Control) click on NetBoot.pkg in the language you need, and select Show Package Contents (from the contextual menu). A Finder window opens. Go into the folder called Contents, and then into Resources. Find the file called NetBoot.pax.gz and drag it to the Desktop (or any other location). This is an archive file.

Double-click NetBoot.pax.gz to have Archive Utility extract a folder called NetBootInstallation. When double-clicking the NetBootInstallation folder, you may get an error message about "access privileges." Right (Control) click on the folder and select Get Info. In the Info window, toward the bottom where it says Ownership & Permissions, set it to (You can) Read & Write. Now, open the NetBootInstallation folder.

Find the file called NetBoot HD.img and double-click it to mount this disk image. Inside the disk image, there is a System Folder. This System Folder is 9.2.2, and it contains all the components needed for any Mac that can officially boot Mac OS 9.2.2 or run it as Classic under Mac OS X.

Drag this System Folder to the root level of your Mac's hard drive. If you want the included Mac OS 9 apps, also copy the Applications (Mac OS 9) folder.

Run System Preferences and go to the Classic pane, select that System Folder for Classic. Click the Start button to run Classic. After a few messages about updates, Classic startup completes, and you can run Mac OS 9 apps.

Before Bungie released HALO Combat Evolved on the Mac, they had a great game called Oni. Originally for OS 9, there was a patch for OS X released, but I think this required the OS 9 version to have been installed first. I am not sure where you can find it now. There was a Playstation console version. It was somewhat inspired by Japanese anime style like Ghost in the Shell, but is a unique storyline in itself. It features melee combat moves, rather than the typical FPS. There is a small modder/user community that has developed some new characters and textures to modernize the look of the game. The graphics/CPU requirements are not that demanding, I was able to run it on a upgraded G3 somewhat comparable to your G4.

http://halo.bungie.net/projects/Oni/

http://wiki.oni2.net/Main_Page

You might be able to find a free demo version, but I am not sure if it is for OS 9 or OS X.

Great tip/info, thanks! 🙂