I have found the 'games' folder...

[Carboy7]

I found the games folder on OS 9. Oh boy, was I in for a huge surprise.

(Sorry I don't have pics, yet. My camera died!)

First up is nanosaur, a real favorite. You are in control of a dinosaur with a variety of weapons, including (but not limited to) a laser gun, laser shotgun, and a nuke. Yes, a nuke. A small one, but a nuke. I just can't get over how hilarious this game is!

Second is Cro-Mag Rally. Also fun. You control a caveman from the stone age in a car. This game handles like MarioKart on drugs. Very arcade-like. The car choices include the Mammoth Mobile, the Bone Buggy, and the Hot rock. And yes, this game was ported to iOS.

The ones I haven't played are Bugdom, Otto Matic, and Deimos Rising.

 

[Johnnya101]

This is just in YOUR copy, right? Not all? I haven't found anything like that in mine yet...

 

[commodorejohn]

Hah, I remember Nanosaur.

 

[Carboy7]

This is in my copy, yes. It's on my iMac G3, currently.

 

[Johnnya101]

Just looked the Nanosaur one up. Still for download of Pangea!

 

[mossy_11]

Various Pangea games were included with new iMac and iBook purchases for a few years. This was part of a long-standing software bundling program (usually one or two games plus some other bit of third-party software that the whole family can enjoy) that started in the early 90s. Sometime in the G4 era Apple stopped doing it and switched to only including its own stuff (i.e., the iLife suite).

Thanks largely to that bundling program, Bugdom is the most successful Mac game ever.

 

[Carboy7]

Did Maelstrom get bundled with Mac even before the iMac era?

 

[jsarchibald]

I recall Maelstrom coming to me via a freeware CD, and the author was asking for donations.  What a great game!

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Sometime in the G4 era Apple stopped doing it and switched to only including its own stuff (i.e., the iLife suite).

Even as late as the early Intel era, they still bundled software - my MacBook came with Big Bang Board Games and OmniOutliner: http://web.archive.org/web/20060822100721/http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html

 

[jamie marchant]

I used to play some of those on the iMacs in our school's library I was in middle school. I think PangeaSoft is still around: http://www.pangeasoft.net/about.htmland you can still buy there games. These days they are making games for iOS. 

 

[olePigeon]

Mars Rising and Deimos Rising are both great games.

 

[Carboy7]

I actually found a nice glitch in Nanosaur, where you get infinite everything. Then I nuke the place, killing everyone.

 

[jamie marchant]

I know there is a glitch where if you jump to high you get infinite rocket fuel. 

 

[Carboy7]

yep, that's the one.

 

[l008com]

Find the game called Alice. It's an alice in wonderland game that is more like GTA than a kid's game