hey guys im new to pc and mac gaming. mostly i like single player adventure type games, RPGs, and stuff like assassins creed and so on. anyway, im mostly a ps'er but really prefer older games. i want to use my mac to play games like diablo 1&2 or fallout and so on. maybe some of the gta games idk. but i dont know how to go about doing this, can anyone give me some pointers of where to begin? im rockin a late 2011 MacBook Pro 13 in with an i7 and 8 gigs. intel hd 3000 graphics card. nothing too great so newer games are out of my reach. i do like sega and nintendo games and gameboy stuff and so on. can someone help a noob out?

Hey, welcome :)

Hmmm... What kind of pointers are you thinking of? Like what games have a Mac version, so you can just click on them and start playing, or how to run the Windows games you already own?

well i dont have any pc games, so basically i need the low down on my options. are there emulators for mac? what are good ones and how do you use them (add games, open games and save them) and if there are those click and play games where can i get them. how do i install them. whats a trusty torrent site for games. and such. also thank you for your hospitality i am glad to be here :)

thanks. i like the mickey mouse one.

Ok, ok, I suppose I should quit messing with you.
Here's a handy-dandy visual guide showing how to play games on a Mac:
http://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/3/2933/How_to_play_on_a_mac.png


*runs*

HAHAHAHA DIck! i was all like ahh thats cool hazing the noob still gonna help me out. NOPE!

I'd seriously help you if I could, but I know next to nothing about Macs. I've been a Windows user all my life.
I'll direct a Mac-using user I know over to this thread, though. Maybe he can assist you.
Edit: Well, I might be able to answer a couple of your questions. I think I heard somebody some time back saying something about this. Something or other with....emus? OpenEmu? I imagine the information you need on how to use it should be on its website. What do you mean by a "click and play" game? Erm...are you talking about pirating? That's rather frowned upon in these parts due to its illegal nature. Don't expect many people here to help you on that one. Or, if they do, they'd probably be somewhat disreputable members (such as KingBradley) whom I wouldn't exactly trust.

...oh no...
*covers eyes*

What? Did you want another stupid joke? I might have a few more here in my bag, I'll see what I can come up with.

ok ill cruz this place and see what i can find thanks a bunch. and gotcha on the pirate talk :X

Crap, last night this damn forum ate my response... retyping again, grrrrrr.

There are certainly "click and play" games for Mac. For example, right here, using filters for Mac in the search page: https://www.gog.com/games?system=osx_106,osx_107&sort=bestselling&page=1

Some are emulated old games, and some have a "real" Mac version, but that doesn't matter to you. If you buy them here, everything is already configured and you just download, install, click the game icon and play. Since many of those games are old or new indie games, their price on sales is just a few bucks. If you're not in a hurry you can check the weekly sales and/or wait for the next big sale. As you don't have any games, you can still choose many under 2-3$.

If a game doesn't have a Mac version at all, you can still try to run the Windows version. There are two main ways of doing this:

- Install Windows in your Mac. You can dual boot OSX and Windows using Bootcamp. The problem is you actually need a Windows license to do that. The advantage to this is you are actually running Windows, no emulation, and games will work in your Mac like in any other laptop/PC.

- You can use a program called Wine to "emulate" Windows on your Mac. It's not really an emulator, but imagine it is. You don't need a Windows license because everything runs inside your OSX, but you still need the game. Also, it can be a bit difficult to configure, but you can use a frontend like PlayOnMac to help you install, organise and run your games. The drawback with this approach is that some games might work, some might not.

Torrent sites? As zeogold already said, we don't talk about that stuff here :)

And oh, console emulators? I don't use any, but there must be lots. No problem with that. Another matter is how you get the ROMs, but then again we'll not discuss that here.