For PalmPilot users only. Here’s a little solitaire card game where the object of the game is to move all of the cards to the four corners in increasing order while following suit.
Feeling a little down or insecure lately? Or maybe you’re coming down with those winter blues. Enter Al Morale, your own virtual cartoon yes man who will fill your life with non-stop flattery, praise, and kudos while you work. He’s the co-worker you’ve always dreamed of. Everyone needs a little Al in their life... 68k and PPC compatible.
Alan’s Euchre 1.0 - Shareware
Alan Ewalt, aewalt@aol.com, http://home.earthlink.net/~nmewalt/
Here’s a Mac version of the card game Euchre. The game is played with a deck of 24 cards (9 thru Ace in each suit). The game is originally played by sets of partners, but in this version your opponents and your partner will be your trusty Mac. Be the first team to score 10 points. Requires a PPC.
An AI Called Wanda 1.11 - Drop-me-a-line-ware
John A. Hancock, jhancock@ri.cmu.edu, http://www.ius.cs.cmu.edu/~jhancock/
OK Marathon Infinity fans, you’re in for a treat. Here’s a scenario that features 3-way battle for the Jjaro AI with fluid alliances, a new texture set, 12 solo levels, and some tough puzzles. Seek and destroy! Requires Marathon Infinity and at least 12 MB RAM.
It’s Apeiron Through the Looking Glass meets Centipede in this fast-paced arcade game. Destroy the Pentipede and his motley crew of mushroom patch misfits before they suck the life out of you. The Bonus Pack includes 4 super cool add-ons (Star Trek, Simpsons, Star Wars, and Muppets) that will give your game a whole new look and feel. Totally addicting! Requires at least Mac OS 7.5.2.
This action and strategy game combines the adrenaline rush of arcade-style space shooters with the challenge of plotting real-time strategy moves against your opponents. The scenario: the human race of Apollo 2000 learns that Earth has been invaded by the Cantharan Order. You must fight the new enemies with the assistance of the Ishiman Protectorate and refit the Apollo 2000 (now dubbed Ares) with powerful weaponry. Requires at least Mac OS 7.5.2 and Sound Manager 3.1.
There’s no business like show business, unless you happen to be an actor who’s lost in a maze of rooms and corridors backstage. This theater-based adventure game stars you as the actor who must find your way through the backstage area and arrive onstage for the evening’s performance. Starring the one and only Carol Channing. Requires at least Mac OS 7.1, 68k or PPC, and 9 MB free RAM.
Get that trigger finger (er, mouse finger) ready! This shoot-em-up style arcade game features smooth video graphics for ultimate realistic obliteration. Armed with your assault weapon (3 in the demo), you must annihilate the terrorists without killing the hostages. If you don’t have the accuracy or speed, it’s “Hasta la vista, baby...”
You are Bob, a cute yellow fish, whose purpose in life (or at least in this game) is to find a way to each treasure chest that holds sacred pearls that protect the secrecies of Atlantis. There are many levels, each with a variety of mutants and bad guys destined to destroy your mission and you. Each level provides its own little game in itself with nice animated graphics and music. Registering will give you all 50 levels (10 in this unregistered version).
Brick Attack 1.0 - Shareware
Dan Zink, zink@uiuc.edu, http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/zink/
Retro’s in... and the brick is back. This new take on the classic game of “Breakout” has you destroying bricks while trying to catch prizes. Requires a PPC and 16 MB RAM.
BricklesDeluxe 1.0 - Shareware
Ken Winograd, ken@winograd.com
More Breakout-style fun to play while you ponder procrastination. Oh the time you can waste with a little blip of a ball and paddle...
CheckerWarz 1.0 - Shareware/Charityware
Michael Chinen, spynos@aol.com
Here’s a new and interesting way to play checkers on your Mac. The game play is standard in a traditional checkers sense, but the novelty begins when you jump over your opponents piece. You have the option of challenging your opponent to a CheckerWar which is, in a sense, a game within the game. Win the challenge and your opponent’s game piece turns into one of your own. Lose - YOUR piece will disappear. Are you up to the challenge? Requires a PPC and Color QuickDraw.
Crystal Rock 1.2 - Shareware
Matthew Beedle, MattBeedle@kagi.com, http://www.foxchange.com/
Little Ably grew up and fell in love with another fox named Pepper. Ably and Pepper went walking through the woods and all of a sudden Madison Cat warped them into some caves... gadzooks! Get Ably and Pepper out of the cave maze pronto!
This little HyperCard game challenges you to a game of darts on your Mac. Play the game of 301 or Cricket, by yourself or with a friend. Requires HyperCard Player.
This cute, fast-paced arcade game has you trapped in a maze surrounded by dragons. The object is to catch the bad ones in a net and then destroy them without harming any of the good ones. Handy Hint: set your monitor to 256 colors BEFORE you launch the game.
Right in time for the holidays. This animated fighting game transforms you into an elf with an attitude, as you attack the enemy elf with your swift maneuvers. Cute sound effects. Helpful Hint: set your monitor to 256 colors BEFORE starting the game.
Escape Velocity Override is the sequel to Escape Velocity. You are a space captain with only a small shuttlecraft, a bit of cash, and a strong sense of destiny. Explore populated worlds and rage wars against the renegades. This Bonus Pack edition includes a couple of different scenarios plus a few tools to help you create your own.
It’s a dog eat dog world, especially in this strategy and survival board game based on the delicate balance of nature. You control the fate of the creatures in this turn-based game of predator and prey by deciding who will eat and who will be eaten. Bon appetit! Compatible with 68k and PPC Macs running Mac OS 7.1.2 or later.
From the makers of ‘You Don’t Know Jack’ comes this insanity driven trivia game that mixes pop-culture trivia with crankin’ music and swirls it up in a game-show atmosphere. This twisted teen trivia game offers up questions from South Park to Shakespeare and the X-Files to X-Men. Simply hilarious.
Here’s one for the kiddies... this collection contains two games - The Great Light Bulb Adventure and DoodleFish demo. TGLBA is a first-person adventure game that finds you searching to replace a burned-out light bulb as you venture through the town of Oompish. DoodleFish demo is a simple “game” where the object is to catch a fish (there’s only one, but you can catch him up to 120 times). A good way to keep kids occupied for a long while...
MacTaipei 1.0 - Shareware
F. Breukelman, fb@knoware.nl
Here’s the Mac equivalent of Taipei, a solitairematching game played with Mahjong tiles. The object of the game is to remove all tiles off of the board by matching pairs. You can only remove tiles that are “free” - ones that you can shift left or right without disturbing other tiles. 68k version.
This shipwrecked-on-an-island game finds you struggling to survive with survivors of your crew with minimal supplies. You must construct a new ship before you starve or are attcked by wild animals or hostile natives. Explore islands, build houses, plant and harvest crops, build roads and bridges, and more. Requires 68k or PPC and at least Mac OS 7.0.
This demo release of Quest For Glory V: Dragon Fire is a “sneak peek” of things to come. This chilling RPG game is the fifth installment of the QFG games which lets players develop a character under three different classes and set him out on a venture. In this scenario, you are in the city of Silmaria, where the land is in dire need of a new ruler. A hero would most certainly fit the bill - could this be you? Prove to your subjects that you are more than capable by outsmarting and outfighting the competition. This early demo is limited in its gameplay and the final release is said to be a grander and much different beast (we can’t wait). Requires a PPC, 16 MB RAM, at least Mac OS 7.1, and a 4x CD-ROM drive.
Quiver 1.03 - Shareware
Scott Kevill, scott@telefragged.com, http://quiver.telefragged.com/news/
For all of you Quake fanatics. Quiver is a Quake level editor that allows you to design your own new worlds. It features CAD quality design, walk-through capabilities as you build, drag & drop, full-screen 3Dfx preview mode, and more. Requires a PPC, Mac OS 7.5 or later, Quake for Mac, and QuickDraw 3D 1.5.4 (part of QuickTime 3 install).
This adventure/arcade game takes you back to the days of the Neanderthals. Here, you discover the everyday life of exploring your territory, keeping up friendly contacts with tribes, trading objects, making assegai heads, and fighting for your life.
Snit 2 - Emailware
David Derwin, SlayerXO9@aol.com
Here’s a little desktop toy to keep you company... Snit is a completely interactive character plaything that can talk, eat, scream, and really annoy you while you’re working away on your Mac.
Starbound II is a commercial-quality strategic game where you attempt to expand your single planet into an empire of galactic proportions. This latest version comes complete with all six races, each with different ship designs and tactical strengths. Are you a diplomat or a conquerer waging arcade-style dog-fights? You decide... Requires a PPC.
For those of you without a lot of spare hard drive space to spare, this “smaller” version of Starbound II is for you. This version contains 3 of the 6 races. Starbound II is a commercial-quality strategic game where you attempt to expand your single planet into an empire of galactic proportions. Requires a PPC.
SUMO 1.0.2 - Freeware
Stephen Linhart, stephen@stephen.com, http://www.stephen.com
“In Sumo you are there... and ‘there’ is a surrealistic, alien version of sumo wrestling”. Well, it certainly is survival of the fittest... or roundest... marble. The object is to knock your opponent out of the arena. It’s big-time marble wrestling at its strangest...
A little take and spin on the classic game, Concentration. The object of this game is to remove all the tiles from the screen by matching tiles in pairs. However, you can only select tiles that have no other tiles on its right or left side. Tiles are stacked from one to four layers high. Requires a 68k or PPC, 10 MB RAM, and Mac OS 7.0 or higher.
This sword and sorcery game has you battling it out with nasty monsters and completing tasks under the watchful eye of the TaskMaker. It features over 18 different dungeons with traps, switches, fire, force fields, mazes, and more.
The Icthian Project Prelude - Shareware
D.C. Inc., doom127@earthlink.net
This adventure game takes you into the year 2300 AD. You, a prominent scientist, have returned from a mission to Icarud. Your assistant, Mortimer, tells you that the fusion generation unit you’ve been working on is nearly complete. However, you suspect that a competing scientific firm has something to hide...
Tired of your everyday boring tic tac toe game? Your basic 3x3 board? Well, now there’s something better. One more better. Tic tac toe on a 4x4x4x4 board. Challenge your Mac in the fourth dimension. Requires a PPC.
The sequel to TaskMaker. You’re the leader of the land and the protector of the people. Messengers come to you with word of innocent people in need of your help. In each task, you explore dungeons, battle vile monsters, and disarm traps to remove the implements of evil...
Join Lara in her quest for The Dagger of Xian, reputed to posses the power of the dragon. But beware, Lara is not the only one in search of the dagger! Drive, swim, climb and conquer Lara's way across the Eastern Hemisphere and beyond. The adventure begins at The Great Wall of China, but it's not long before Lara is racing snowmobiles in Tibet and speeding her way through the canals of Venice. Swing from chandeliers, uncover a sunken ship, and scale walls in exotic locations. With Lara's agility and your skill there is no prize that will go unclaimed.
Trilite 1.5 - Shareware
John Mauro, maurojc@cs.alfred.edu, http://www.cs.alfred.edu/~maurojc
Trilite is a game similiar to tic-tac-toe, but much more fun and challenging. The object is to get three adjacent squares set to your color, but you may only have 3 squares at a time. Requires Mac OS 7.0 or higher.
Waterloo Campaign 1.0 - Demo
by Design, Inc., Voice 800-527-7472, designinc@aol.com, http://members.aol.com/designinc
This tactical level, simulation simulation game takes place in France during the times of the famous battles between Napoleon and the allied generals, Wellington and Blucher. The game features command of troops, battalion level conflict, capture the flag, and more. Requires 8 MB RAM, System 6, 7, 8 compatible.
X-Files Trivia Challenge 1.1 - Shareware
Brian Kelley, bkelley1@nycap.rr.com, http://home.nycap.rr.com/compleatmac
The truth is right here. If you’re a devoted follower or fan of “The X-Files”, test your knowledge and memory by taking the X-Files Trivia Challenge. The program has over 200 questions that range in difficulty from newbie to X-Pert.
OpenGL version (you must have a 3D video card with OpenGL support installed to play this version). X-Plane is a realistic and colorful flight simulator that supports 3D terrain and elevation maps. It also simulates various weather conditions such as rain, thunderstorms, and turbulence. Requires a 100 MHz PPC, 64 MB RAM, Speech Manager, 3D video card, and 800x600 screen resolution capability.
Take to the skies in this realistic flight simulation game. The game features support for 3D terrain and elevation maps, and it includes a powerful physics modeler to simulate various weather conditions such as rain, thunderstorms, turbulence, and thermals. This demo is limited to 5 minutes of play per game. Requires a PPC and Speech Manager.
Forget dusting off that ol’ Scrabble board when you can play it right here and now. X-Words Deluxe is based on the classic game, but gives players an extended vocabulary list which includes Spanish, Italian, Science, Gaelic Manx, or even Shakespeare. The game also gives you various scenarios, each with different boards and bonuses, as well as your choice of a few colorful opponents.
