
I had a lightsaber I’d gotten for Christmas - little more than a flashlight with a three-foot plastic cone on its end - and used it to stage mock battles with my friends in our yard, reliving Obi-Wan Kenobi’s epic confrontation with Darth Vader. Then things get really interesting.įlash back to me as an eight-year-old boy - back when I actually had hair. As time goes on, Katarn’s Force powers develop and reemerge. After an encounter with Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, Katarn begins to regain his Force powers, and he slings his lightsaber on his belt, setting out on a quest for both justice and vengeance. Katarn is thrust back into the center of things when a new and menacing evil comes forth. He’s a Jedi bad boy - a disciple of the Force who has given up his powers and chosen the swashbuckling life of a mercenary employed by the fledgling New Republic in the days following the collapse of the Galactic Empire (in other words, after the movie Return of the Jedi wraps up). Published on the Mac by Aspyr, Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast follows a dark-edged protagonist named Kyle Katarn. It’s a gripping 3-D–action game that’ll be the answer to the prayers of many a Mac Star Wars fan. Fortunately, loving Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast requires no Jedi mind trick. In recent years, however, some mediocre games (most of which never made it to the Mac) have tarnished the brand’s image a bit.



Unfortunately, QuickDraw 3D has not been updated past Mac OS 9, so experiencing the game used to require booting a PowerPC Mac into OS 9 - until this port came out.Īfter I finished porting Nanosaur, Pangea offered to let me port Bugdom. It is probably the most advanced game that uses QuickDraw 3D. The game was bundled with some Mac models of the era. You play as Rollie McFly, a pill bug on a quest to save ladybugs from King Thorax’s iron grip on the Bugdom.

This version, at, is approved by Pangea Software.ĭownload the game for macOS, Windows and Linux here: īugdom is a 1999 Macintosh game by Pangea Software. This is Pangea Software's Bugdom updated to run on modern operating systems.
