About the Macintosh Garden

The Macintosh Garden is an abandonware games archive, dedicated in particular to supporting the Macintosh computer platform. A notable feature of Macintosh Garden is its emphasis on game emulation, encouraging users to run historical and in some cases genre-defining games, on modern systems.

Games featured on the Macintosh Garden have been discontinued by their publishers and are no longer commercially available. The Macintosh Garden aims to preserve these games for future generations, providing documentation and downloads of the original game files. With respect to copyright, non-qualifying games are removed upon request and a link to the games purchase page is provided.

The website is primarily a wiki, allowing contributors to upload game files, screenshots and edit game descriptions and other details. Anonymous user ratings are allowed, however user registration is required to comment or download. Games are categorized by genre, year, author and publisher.

Originally founded in 2001, by the year 2007 the archive counted at over 900 games and 6960 user comments. Throughout this time the site was hosted by Home of the Underdogs until late 2008 when the host went bankrupt. The Macintosh Garden has recently been relaunched and plans are underway to preserve the archive itself with the University of Portsmouth's KEEP Project.