Pangea Arcade is actually a collection of three exciting games: 'Nucleus', 'Warheads', and 'Firefall', all of which are based on classic arcade themes, however, these new games have been completely modernized and loaded with visual eye candy.
What's New
Version 1.0.7:
Pangea Arcade is free from the Mac App Store for a limited time (normally $4.99).
MacUpdate admins: past time to update this entry. The App Store shows 1.0.8 having been there since 26-Jan-2011. The price is $9.99 (not $4.99) nor is it FREE any longer.
I purchased some 3d Anaglyph glasses (more expensive plastic glasses rather than the cardboard ones) to use with Nucleus but it was unusable because of the ghosting. It really needs a calibration setting. The game itself when played without 3d glasses is addictive and well made.
COMMENT:
PANGEA DEVs: I only have 1 gripe... it is on Warheads. It is very frustrating to run out of missiles so quickly! Warheads is my fave game - but it seems hopeless! If you can make refilling the defensive guided missiles easier or more frequent, that would increase the fun! It's a great, great game, but I hate running out of missiles within minutes, and just sitting there to die, or being killed by my own refills! It's quite a pessimistic, lonely game when I'm trying to save the world, and no one on my side is helping me refill the defenses! Maybe you can have an option where you get unlimited defensive missiles, or the refills don't explode, or the missiles refills automatically but slowly. Something - anything! I just hate waiting to die!!!!! It makes me sad watching my poor little cities blow up... I want a fighting chance!
REVIEW:
It comes with 3 simple games. Generally, they are excellent in themselves. For the most part, they don't try to be more than they are, except for the fact they are excellent remakes of Asteroids, Missile Command, and Centipede. SO expect near identical game play as the originals, but about 100 times for fun with terrific sight and sound. Depending on price, this is recommended if you love the originals! Everything about them is top-notch, yet simple. The Asteroids game may be based on asteroids or another later asteroids-copy, because not only do you fight an asteroid field, but you must also collect electrons to build atoms. So it gives this version more of a plot and makes it really cool, and kinda helps you in chemistry class as you build the molecular table in outer space!
These games are just the best remakes on planet earth. Don't expect hours of straight game play - because they are just simple games in the end - but expect a fantastic 5 to 15 minute break between work (maybe even 30 minutes if you love games like this). Just what you need when you want to blow things up for a few minutes while reliving the 1970s and 1980s!!! You'll have nothing but joyful nostalgia if you lived in the early 1980s!
Again, if the price is right - buy this!
It would be 5 stars, except for the Warheads outlook of imminent hopeless destruction when you run out of missiles.
I really only like Nucleus. The other 2 included games I probably won't play much at all. I find them way too hard right off the bat. And I find Firefall uninteresting (visually, and otherwise). But Nucleus alone might make the app worth it. So I ignored the other ones, and just rated Nucleus.
I like all the science elements - the black holes with their gravity wells, the electrons and the atoms - it's like something I might have dreamed up during a grade 7 science class.
I wouldn't mind being able to change the difficulty level, though. Because I'm not much of a gamer. I only play games sporadically, and I like to be coddled - less work, more pay-off. But that's just me.
Amazing collection of classic remakes - takes the wind out of the whole "there aren't any good games on Mac OS X" argument.
However, I had issues with controls sticking at various points throughout games (with the app completely in focus). Running 10.5.6 with the latest Apple Wireless Keyboard. Direction would stick, sending either my spacecraft in a perma-spin or player to the side of the screen. Also had problems with keys not registering during High Scores - unless I typed very slowly.
I have absolutely no problems with this keyboard anywhere else - including while trying to enter this particular mini-review at 100wpm.
This really sounds like an issue with the wireless keyboard. I'd try the game again with a regular keyboard and confirm that there's an issue with that one before I'd call it a game flaw...
I also had the same keyboard problem. And this is with a USB keyboard. I don't type nearly as fast as Chris, yet I still had keys not registering during high score entry, if I typed fast. It happened numerous times. I, like Chris, have not had problems with my keyboard elsewhere.
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Pangea Arcade is actually a collection of three exciting games: 'Nucleus', 'Warheads', and 'Firefall', all of which are based on classic arcade themes, however, these new games have been completely modernized and loaded with visual eye candy.
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DaymonJ reviewed on 16 Jan 2011
Best yet, it's free. App Store installed it just fine.
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Kae reviewed on 16 Jan 2011
No wonder it's free...
I'm running OS X 10.5.8 so I used the "Download Pangea Arcade for Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later" link.
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Jimblue reviewed on 16 Jan 2011
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Geraldo Pavlo Logesto reviewed on 27 Jun 2009
Great job! Many thanks for that!
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MacUpdate-User reviewed on 17 Dec 2008
PANGEA DEVs: I only have 1 gripe... it is on Warheads. It is very frustrating to run out of missiles so quickly! Warheads is my fave game - but it seems hopeless! If you can make refilling the defensive guided missiles easier or more frequent, that would increase the fun! It's a great, great game, but I hate running out of missiles within minutes, and just sitting there to die, or being killed by my own refills! It's quite a pessimistic, lonely game when I'm trying to save the world, and no one on my side is helping me refill the defenses! Maybe you can have an option where you get unlimited defensive missiles, or the refills don't explode, or the missiles refills automatically but slowly. Something - anything! I just hate waiting to die!!!!! It makes me sad watching my poor little cities blow up... I want a fighting chance!
REVIEW:
It comes with 3 simple games. Generally, they are excellent in themselves. For the most part, they don't try to be more than they are, except for the fact they are excellent remakes of Asteroids, Missile Command, and Centipede. SO expect near identical game play as the originals, but about 100 times for fun with terrific sight and sound. Depending on price, this is recommended if you love the originals! Everything about them is top-notch, yet simple. The Asteroids game may be based on asteroids or another later asteroids-copy, because not only do you fight an asteroid field, but you must also collect electrons to build atoms. So it gives this version more of a plot and makes it really cool, and kinda helps you in chemistry class as you build the molecular table in outer space!
These games are just the best remakes on planet earth. Don't expect hours of straight game play - because they are just simple games in the end - but expect a fantastic 5 to 15 minute break between work (maybe even 30 minutes if you love games like this). Just what you need when you want to blow things up for a few minutes while reliving the 1970s and 1980s!!! You'll have nothing but joyful nostalgia if you lived in the early 1980s!
Again, if the price is right - buy this!
It would be 5 stars, except for the Warheads outlook of imminent hopeless destruction when you run out of missiles.
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ticonuck reviewed on 17 Dec 2008
I like all the science elements - the black holes with their gravity wells, the electrons and the atoms - it's like something I might have dreamed up during a grade 7 science class.
I wouldn't mind being able to change the difficulty level, though. Because I'm not much of a gamer. I only play games sporadically, and I like to be coddled - less work, more pay-off. But that's just me.
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Chris Pirillo reviewed on 16 Dec 2008
However, I had issues with controls sticking at various points throughout games (with the app completely in focus). Running 10.5.6 with the latest Apple Wireless Keyboard. Direction would stick, sending either my spacecraft in a perma-spin or player to the side of the screen. Also had problems with keys not registering during High Scores - unless I typed very slowly.
I have absolutely no problems with this keyboard anywhere else - including while trying to enter this particular mini-review at 100wpm.
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Whichever i use, the game elements show significant red ghosting. This thing badly needs a calibration screen of some kind.
Late rated on 19 Nov 2011
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Gryphonent rated on 07 Sep 2011
Matyas.ka rated on 23 Jul 2011
+5
Remi rated on 23 Mar 2011
+9
OSX-FTW! rated on 16 Jan 2011
-7
Jonassh rated on 01 Dec 2010