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MacCentral brings readers the latest news and info from the world of Macintosh gaming each day with the rest of our regular news headlines. There are always a few news items that don’t make it onto our regular news pages, and that’s why we have this retrospective, which we call The Week in Games.

Considered by many one the top cyberpunk games of all-time, Observer made our list of the top 20 Mac games of 2017. Featuring the voice of Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) and a Mature rating for many reasons, Observer is the game to go to for your horror fix if you have the computer for it.

Mah Jong Solitaire 1.50 released

BoneHead Projects has released Mah Jong Solitaire v1.50, a new version of their shareware Mac OS X-native tile matching game. The new version supports multiple tilesets, sports improved preference handling, and more.

Meteor Storm 1.5 available

Z Sculpt Entertainment has released a new version of its arcade-style action game Meteor Storm. Version 1.5 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.2, “Jaguar,” and sports analog joystick support, window mode and minimize functionality, and more.

Redline adds force feedback, more

Ambrosia Software’s forthcoming 3D racing game Redline is in development, and according to the programmer it now has force feedback support. “Drafting” is now supported, so when you’re riding in another car’s slipstream, you’ll hear wind noise quiet down.

RHEM demo available for download

Got Game Entertainment LLC has released a demo version of its Myst-like puzzle adventure game for Mac and PC. The game currently runs in Classic only under Mac OS X, but it’ll run on Mac OS 8.6 – 9.2 as well.

State of the Pilot tutorial available

Stoenworks has posted another tutorial aimed at flight simulator enthusiasts called “The State of the Pilot.” The new piece concerns issues like pilot employment, options, and the future for flight sim pilots.

Uplink now in beta

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In other Ambrosia Software news, the company’s forthcoming Mac conversion of the PC game Uplink has gone beta, according to the developer’s progress log. Uplink puts you in the role of a computer criminal, in which you can manipulate records, upgrade your systems, and even create a virus.

Elsewhere on the Web

Inside Mac Games has posted a review of Freedom Force, the superhero-based role playing game from MacPlay. MacGamer editor in chief Corey Tamas has posted his latest The View from Here editorial, entitled “Keyboard and Mouse.”

Closer to Home

On MacCentral this week, game-related headlines included the news that GameRanger has launched a premium service for its users, while retaining the free basic service as well. Pangea Software has announced Billy Frontier, a new 3D action game set on the alien world of New Texas. Aspyr Media has announced plans to produce a Mac version of Star Trek Elite Force II. A new episode of Lineage is now available for download. Feral Interactive has updated its Web site and provided numerous updates about its game development plans. The iGesture Pad debuted — it’s a new hand-sized touchpad that works by gestures instead of just single-finger motions, and it works for games too.

As always, we encourage you to let us know if you have ideas for ways we can improve our games coverage here on MacCentral, have questions we haven’t answered, or want to see your own Mac game or related service highlighted.

Nanosaur is a science fictionthird person shootervideo game developed by Pangea Software and published by Ideas From the Deep for Mac OS 9 and Microsoft Windows. The player takes on the form of a Nanosaur, a genetically engineered intelligent dinosaur from the future, sent back in time just prior to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

Story[edit]

In the distant year of 4122, a dinosaur species, Nanosaurs, rule the Earth. Their civilization originated from a group of human scientists who experimented with genetic engineering. Their experimentation led them to resurrect the extinct dinosaur species; however, their victory was short lived, as a disastrous plague brought the end of their civilization itself. The few dinosaurs resurrected were lent an unusual amount of intelligence from their human creators, leaving them to expand on their growing civilization. However, as the Nanosaurs were the only species on Earth, inbreeding was the only possible choice of reproduction. This method largely affected the intelligence of the various offspring, and slowly began to pose a threat to their once-intelligent society.

The Nanosaur government offers a quest that involves time traveling into the year 65 million BC, where the five eggs of ancient dinosaur species must be retrieved and placed in a time portal leading to the present year. Their high-ranking agent, a brown Deinonychus Nanosaur, is chosen to participate in this mission. On the day of her mission, she is teleported to the past via a time machine in a Nanosaur laboratory.

The Nanosaur arrives in a lush jungle, with twenty minutes given to collect the eggs before the meteor that caused the initial extinction of the dinosaur race hits the Earth. After battling various Tyrannosaurus rex's, the Nanosaur enters a volcanic crater, where she must cross several stone formations in a river of lava in order to retrieve the eggs. After making her way across the river, the Nanosaur detects the final eggs in a canyonoasis, where various dinosaurs, namely Dilophosaurus and Stegosaurus, are attempting to hinder her progress in order to protect their eggs. After evading defeat, the Nanosaur beams the final egg into the time portal, and is carried along with it back to the present.

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Following the completion of the Nanosaur's mission, the eggs are placed in nationwide laboratories, where the scientists intend on breeding them for their own purposes. Several months following this event, the eggs finally start to hatch.

Gameplay[edit]

The object of the game is to collect the eggs of five dinosaur and flying reptile species and deposit them in time portals to the future in twenty minutes; at the end of the countdown, the asteroid that caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event hits Earth. The Nanosaur is equipped with a 'fusion blaster' (a basic multi-purpose energy weapon), a jet pack allowing flight, a temporal compass for locating time portals, and a GPS locator for navigation.

The native animals will attack the Nanosaur when their eggs are threatened; species encountered include Tyrannosaurus rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Dilophosaurus (who spits venom as in Jurassic Park), and the flying reptile Pteranodon. As well as hostile creatures, the Nanosaur must also avoid water and lava, environmental hazards which slow the player down (or kill it).

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Legacy[edit]

The game was being ported to Linux by Three Axis Interactive, but the port was never completed.^[2] Around 2003 the source code of the game was made available by the developer under a restrictive license.^[3]

Nanosaur Extreme is another version of Nanosaur, released at a later time with heftier system requirements. It has many more enemies and weapons than Nanosaur, and it is described on the Nanosaur downloads page as 'what Nanosaur was meant to be - a total kill-fest'.

Nanosaur 2: Hatchling, a continuation of the original Nanosaur storyline, was released in March 2004. Nanosaur 2 is the first stereoscopic game released for the Mac.^[4]

References[edit]

1. ^Nanosaur v1.0.8 Instructions (Game manual). 1998.
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3. ^nanosource on pangeasoft.net
4. ^'Inside Mac Games Preview: Nanosaur 2: Hatchling'. Insidemacgames.com. Retrieved 2014-05-09.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

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