Back in the late 90s, I was introduced to the joy of network gaming on a Mac with a really cool little tank war game called Bolo. The basic idea behind Bolo was that you had an island, and whoever could conquer all the bases and all the gun emplacements (called pill boxes) on the island with their tank first, won the game. You could play against the computer or play against multiple people across your LAN.

The other night I was thinking about that game and wondering if it still existed. Much to my surprise it did. It was ported over to Mac OS X twice. The company that did the first port seems to have disappeared before they ever released the final version of the game. Thankfully, someone else took up the charge and it was ported a second time with a new name: nuBolo. The game play looks identical to the original version. What I’m waiting for now is an opportunity to play it again with an a former co-worker of mine who always kicked my butt when we battled each other.

Check out nuBolo here: http://www.nubolo.net/

–Pete