Best Touch Bar games and apps: How to have fun with your Macbook Pro’s Touch Bar. We list the best games and weird uses for the Macbook Pro’s Touch Bar, from Pac Man and Pong to Knight Rider effects, Nyan Cat and virtual instruments.
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One of the biggest new features on the 2016 Macbook Pro is the Touch Bar, a touch-sensitive strip that sits above the keyboard and delivers handy visual controls and time-saving shortcuts, tailored to your current task. We’re definite fans, as you’ll see in our full Touch Bar review.
You can also have a lot of fun with the Touch Bar and even play some basic games, thanks to some crafty tinkering from Mac fans. Here we’ve rounded up some of the best games and silly time wasters involving the Macbook Pro’s funky strip.
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Best Macbook Touch Bar games and apps: Pac Man
Everyone loves a bit of Pac Man, although you’d probably never think that this addictive arcade game would translate to the Macbook Pro’s Touch Bar. Well, you’d be wrong. It’s perfectly possible to play a version of the pill-popping game on that thin strip, by downloading it from here.
Sadly it’s a rather basic version, as you might well expect. The thin nature of the Touch Bar means you don’t get a full-on maze to negotiate, just a single row with cunning portals. And there’s only one ghost to evade, although he’s a nippy bugger.
Best Macbook Touch Bar games and apps: Get musical with Touch Bar Piano
If you want to practice your finger action on the move, you can use this nifty Touch Bar Piano to belt out a snippet of Chopin. Like those classic keyboards you can choose from a massive variety of sounds, including organs, guitars, wind instruments and weird special effects. Brilliant fun and a great way to annoy whoever’s sat next to you on the bus.
Best Macbook Touch Bar games and apps: Pong
One of the very first video games can now be played on your premium-priced laptop, using the Touch Bar for precise controls. Play against an easy or difficult to beat AI opponent, with the same fast-paced gameplay you remember from back in the day (if you’re old enough).
You can grab Touch Bar Pong here.
Best Macbook Touch Bar games and apps: Nyan Cat
We’ll allow the creator of this hilariously pointless Touch Bar app sum it up, as he does a better job than we ever could:
“Stupid Nyan Cat animation on your +$2k MacBook Pro’s Touchbar. Enjoy.”
If you still can’t get enough of Nyan Cat in 2017, your dreams are about to be realised. You can grab Touch Bar Nyan Cat here.
Best Macbook Touch Bar games and apps: Knight Rider
This Knight Rider homage is about as pointless as it is entertaining for fans of the Hoff’s old telly show. Load up the app and your Touch Bar will light up just like KITT while the original theme tune plays. The novelty wears off after about half a minute, but what a half a minute.
Interested? Grab Touch Bar Knight Rider here.
Best Macbook Touch Bar games and apps: Dino (Google Chrome easter egg)
The Dino secret hidden game is an easter egg hidden away in the Google Chrome browser. To access Dino, all you normally have to do is make sure your Macbook is offline and then browse to anything inside Chrome. You’ll notice a warning page pop up with a cute little dino pic. Now just tap the spacebar on your laptop and the dinosaur will pop to life and begin running. Tap the bar again to jump over the pesky cacti that get in your way, and see how far you can go before Dino becomes extinct.
You can also play a Touch Bar version of the Chrome Dino game at any time, if you’re a big fan. Just head over to Github and download the app, which gives you full Touch Bar controls and graphics. Interesting.
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The new MacBook Pro Touch Bar is here, so it's time to say goodbye to productivity.
From composing catchy tunes to playing games or making fart noises, Apple's latest MacBook Pro feature has inspired a slew of quirky apps and hacks that you'll want to try out.
Games For Touch Bar Macbook Pro
We're not saying they're all useful, but there's no denying they're entertaining AF.
SEE ALSO: Apple's MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is simply superb
Here are some of our personal favorites:
TouchSwitcher and Rocket
These apps are extremely helpful and make great use of the Touch Bar. After launching TouchSwitcher you'll be able to easily access and switch between all open applications on your MacBook without having to individually cycle through them.
Long gone are the days of wasting time looking for apps on your dock.
Similarly, Rocket allows you to switch between apps quickly, but lets you launch any app on your MacBook Pro’s dock, not just the ones in use. You can also use Rocket anytime, anywhere on your Mac, since it's a standalone menu bar app. This means you're not just confined to your touch bar.
Doom
Side note, as ridiculous (ly amazing) as Doom is running on the Touch Bar is… the HUD is equally great pic.twitter.com/RFwq7nJ7ae
— Adam Bell (@b3ll) November 20, 2016
Yes, the new Touch Bar runs Doom! Facebook iOS engineer Adam Bell brought the game that's been played everywhere from an early 2000s digital camera to an old Nokia phone, to the Touch Bar to prove you can play yet another squished little version of the classic game.
Bell configured the Touch Bar so it would display his health, ammo, weapons and other stats while the game itself appeared on the laptop's main screen.
I mean, it's obviously not an ideal setup, but hey, it works.
Nyan Cat
If nothing else, at least buy a new MacBook Pro to watch that adorable, rainbow-loving Nyan Cat fly across your Touch Bar. Using code posted to GitHub by Vatsaev Aslan, you can have one of the internet's favorite memes by your side to lighten the mood while you work.
KnightTouchBar 2000
Who wouldn't want to turn their MacBook Pro into Kitt from Knight Rider? With the KnightTouchBar 2000 from GitHub, you can zone out to the repeating Knight Rider theme song (this could get super irritating) while watching your Touch Bar mimic the illuminated front of everyone's favorite Pontiac Trans Am.
Touch Bar Piano
Touch Bar Apps
Thanks to app developer, Graham Parks, your fingers can easily take a break from typing on laptop keys to tickle some virtual ivory keys.
With 128 different instruments, such as drums, strings and even choir 'aahs' at your fingertips, Touch Bar Piano allows you to master the art of playing music on your Mac.
Pac-Man PacBar
Celebrate your love for 80s arcade games by bringing the beloved Pac-Man to your MacBook Pro Touch Bar. 'PacBar,' as it's called, lets you use your laptop's arrow keys to move a little tiny Pac-Man left, right, up and down to escape ghosts. It's available for free download on GitHub and the joy and nostalgia it will bring you is also priceless.
Lemmings
This may be the best app I've ever built pic.twitter.com/Z9WJi7e74G
— Erik Olsson (@valross2) December 11, 2016
iOS engineer and app designer, Erik Olsson, is throwing it back to the 90s by allowing you to transform your Touch Bar into a stage for some cute little green-haired lemmings to walk across.
With this perfect merger of 90s simplicity and modern day tech you can let the lemmings strut their stuff across the length of your laptop or stop them in their tracks with a simple tap.
Be sure you have some bumpin' Lemmings music playing in the background.
TouchBarDino
Pac-Man and Lemmings might be old-school but if you truly want to travel back to rudimentary graphics and utility, we suggest TouchBarDino. Guide your tiny little dino to safety by tapping on the screen by tapping on the screen to hop over cacti, but be warned, it's quite addictive.
TouchBar Santa
'Tis the season for Santa to grace your Touch Bar, falalalala la la la la. Perfect for the holidays, TouchBar Santa, available on GitHub, will have jolly old Saint Nick scampering across your laptop in his classic red suit.
What better way to get in the Christmas spirit while you're doing your last minute online shopping?
TouchFart
You've heard of 'touch to start' and now there's 'touch to fart.'
After you drop thousands on a new laptop, you deserve to act a little immature. TouchFart is here to help. The downright dumb app, available on GitHub, serves as a modern day whoopee cushion for Apple lovers. Thanks to two fart-related emoji (💩 and 💨 ) that will appear on your Touch Bar, you can prank friends with mortifying sounds at the push of a button.
Happy hacking and don't forget to use your Touch Bar to the fullest.
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