Gaming on OSX

The first gaming breakthrough for OSX (the operating system for Apple's computers) was in 1999 when Bungie, a small start up gaming company, announced that they would be releasing a revolutionary new game for OSX, Halo: Combat Evolved. This game had amazing artificial intelligence; the enemy would take cover when you shoot at them and when you threw grenades. Halo also had vehicles, which most other first person shooters did not have and it did not just have one vehicle it had almost a dozen. The last very interesting feature this game had was that it only allowed you to hold two guns at a time unlike most games where you could hold as many as you could find. Halo was the first of the modern games of the 21^st century, and it was for OSX. Now the mighty Steve Jobs did not think that this Halo game would sell very well so he did not support Bungie in their quest to drastically change the gaming landscape. Bungie then switched camps and started devolving for windows, soon after Microsoft bought them because Microsoft saw the potential in the Halo games. Ever since the only major games for OSX were Bugdom, Ottomatic, and Nanosaur all made from Pangaea Games. Of course there were others but most of them were Windows games that people played on a Windows partition. The next major step forward for gaming in OSX happened last year when Steam was released for Mac. That opened a whole new portal where a lot of Windows games were released for Mac. If you want to see a current list of games that run natively for Mac look here.