3 Fun Classic Macintosh Games That Run Well In Basilisk II on the PSVita – The Mac Was Actually Good For Gaming Once!
If you don’t know what Basilisk II is, then you’ve been missing out as it enables your PSVita to enter into a whole different world of games! In this article, we’ll be looking at 3 worthwile games that you should seriously play on your PSVita through Basilisk II, a 68k Mac Emulator.
1) SimCity 2000
The PSVita didn’t get any native city building/management games that are serious so why not play one in an emulator? The best candidate for this type of game is SimCity 2000, a game by Maxis that’s considered to be one of the most successful games of the 90s having sold 1.4 million copies between 1993-1999.
SimCity 2000 is a pretty fun game because it lets you be the mayor of a city that you build from the ground-up in which you can manage everything from education, to the water supply and even lets you unleash acts of god (or acts of Godzilla if you fancy that) on your city. Other than that, you can also dive into numerous scenarios in which you have to do your best to solve a specific problem before it gets out of hand.
If you’re a fan of older SimCity games, you can always check SimCity Classic which is another fun game that runs well on the PlayStation Vita through Basilisk II!
2) Burning Monkey Solitaire 2
Do you enjoy wacky games, monkeys and cards? If so, then Burning Monkey Solitaire is an excellent candidate for your time! This game does card games with a twist in which the actual gameplay mechanisms are faithful to the original games but the experience is made much more fun thanks to the cheeky monkeys that are present all over the game.
These monkeys do numerous things to spice up the game like saying silly quotes, making sound effects and most importantly, featuring on the cards that you play with! Other than a whole slew of monkeys, BMS also has a whole slew of card games available which include:
- Klondike
- Strict Klondike
- Freecell
- Canfield
- Pyramid
- Golf
- Calculation
- Little Spider
- Will O’ the Wisp
- 52 Card Pick-Up
3) Odyssey – The Legend of Nemesis
When it comes the RPGs, the PSVita has its own fair share of good ones like P4G and numerous Final Fantasy games but one can never quite have enough RPGs on their hands. Odyssey – The Legend of Nemesis is a Macintosh-exclusive RPG game that was released as freeware a couple years back. Unfortunately, it kind of got buried under numerous other great games and hasn’t got much attention in recent years.
In this game, you have to travel between 9 islands, all with different stories to listen and adventures to play through. Obviously, you’ll be fighting plenty of monsters but there’s more to the game than just that as it contains dozens of different people to speak to and the story is non-linear so you won’t get bored so easily.
If you’re a fan of RPG games and want to give an older one a go, then this game is certainly a very good candidate as it’s considered to be one of the best Macintosh RPGs of all time by some!
Conclusion
Classic Macintosh machines have quite a bit to offer and, in my opinion, should be given more importance nowadays. Unfortunately, the Nintendo Switch doesn’t currently have a port of Basilisk II for it but that’ll hopefully change in the near future and who knows, maybe it could even do a good job at running SheepShaver, a PowerPC Mac emulator, now that its CPU can be overclocked!
To get Classic Macintosh games, you can look on eBay or other websites but unfortunately, the easiest way to get them is through illegal ways these days.
A small tip derived while I was writing this article: Don’t extract things with StuffIt on your Vita as it’s painfully slow
sim city 2000 was such a fun game for what it was
someone shoul do a port of Heroes of might and magic 3 for the PSVITA 🙂 It will be awaysome to be able to play this game on the go 🙂
Couple things: I was a huge Mac Addict back in the day, and so 68k-PPCG3 Mac gaming is my jam. It’s been frustrating trying to get Basilisk II working on my Vita, however; for some reason I can’t get the ROM and disk files working properly.
That said, the Classic Mac has some awesome games going for it, and these three are just the tip of the iceberg. Other great games include:
>> THREE IN 3
An awesome puzzle game which has a lot of word play, number twists, memorization, and trial and error puzzles, which makes for a great time killer. Apparently it was ported to Windows, but I don’t know anything about that.
>> MARATHON
Before Halo, there was Marathon… Bungie’s amazing FPS which showed that Macs could do “Doom” better than Windows.
>> EXILE 1-3
The Exile series is a great RPG by Spiderweb Software which follows the journey of a group of humans who have been exiled underground by the EVIL Empire. The final game was my favorite, as it followed the Exiled on their journey back to the surface, only to find that some horrible stuff is happening there to keep them from finishing the journey. This game series is totally worth a try!
>> JARED
Just get Jared. (Unrelated to any prior representative of Subway)
This is just a few off the top of my head, but you can pretty much get them all at the Macintosh Garden, located at http://www.MacintoshGarden.org . There are other utilities there as well, so it’s worth checking out if you want to expand your Mac.
Hope this helps!
SimTower? 😛
Thing is, kind of hard to find MAC Games from back then 🙁
Also Pong Kombat 3 (Mortal Kombat+Pong in 1). Only thing is, it is a DEMO, requiring a Kombat Kode of sorts to Unlock it.
https://macintoshrepository.org
IS POSITIVE AGE OF EMPIRE AND AGE OF EMPIRE 2( REALSE ON MAC 1999)
I know i know. .wrong time.. wrong place… but.. just imagine..
kairosoft games on vita
All the Ambrosia SW games. Escape Velocity should run too.
Can anyone help me get this going? I’ve got Basilisk installed on my vita, and have found the rom and OS files so that I can successfully load to the Mac desktop. I have Simcity 2000 in .sit format in my disks folder (I’ve also tried cdrom, and files folders), I use ‘Select’ to mount either floppy or cdrom, but nothing happens. Do I need a different file format? I also tried a .dmg image file, but putting that in the cdrom folder makes it appear as an audio cd on desktop. I do need to add something to the config file to get it to mount? any help would be really appreaciated!
don’t need to pirate mac games. most of them are abandonware and could be easily downloaded from Macintoshgarden.org 😉