Recycling is a HyperCard shareware program by Joe Hammons that turns sorting trash into a timed thinking game for children of all ages. Players drag items into the correct recycling containers and try to see how many they can correctly recycle in a single minute.HyperCard educational gameBuilt as a HyperCard stack, Rec…

Reversi: The Eclipse is Freeverse Software's 1997 deluxe Mac shareware take on Reversi/Othello, designed by Lars Graulund. It pairs the classic disc-flipping board game with polished graphics, variable-strength computer opponents, and full Internet head-to-head play, all wrapped in Freeverse's trademark sense of humor.…

Cyan's 1997 first-person puzzle adventure, published by Brøderbund's Red Orb label across five CDs, drops the player into the fracturing Age of Riven, ruled by Atrus's tyrant father Gehn. There is no inventory and no death — only mute landscapes, mechanical Ages held together by a dying force, and the most painstakingl…

Road Kill 1.0 is a small Macintosh shareware game by Baehr in which the player guides Phuzzie, a baby squirrel, on a quest to reach Cloud 9 while dodging an oncoming steam roller. Wrong answers send Phuzzie to squirrel hell, making the title equal parts trivia quiz and cartoon hazard.GameplayEach screen presents a ques…

Robobattle is a Classic Mac shareware game centered on robotic combat, preserved as part of the broader trove of small independent Mac titles from the System 7 through Mac OS 9 era. It belongs to the long lineage of Mac robot-fighting games that ran from RoboWar through countless one-developer experiments.ConceptAs the…

It's difficult to describe RoboWar, the game created by David Harris nearly a decade ago. To some, it's merely an engrossing hobby. To others, it's no less than a full-fledged obsession. And there is a small group of core followers (myself included,) who consider RoboWar to be the greatest computer game ever created. …

Rock Solid is a 1998 Macintosh puzzle game in which the player engineers conveyor systems to haul mined diamonds from cave dig sites back to a central base. Equipment is placed one square at a time at fixed costs, turning each level into a careful optimization exercise of routing, digging, and budget.Engineering puzzle…

Roidz is a small Asteroids-style arcade game written in Pascal by an author posting as Pigeon (dethpigeon@hotmail.com). Released as a 0.9a build through the Info-Mac archive in December 2000, it ships with thorough documentation tucked inside the StuffIt distribution.A Hobbyist Pascal ProjectRoidz was assembled in Pasc…

Romi is a Rummy card game by Gerard Brochu of Universite Laval that pits a single human player against the computer at three difficulty levels. Built to run on virtually any Macintosh from System 6.0.4 onward, it shipped in English, French and Italian editions and became a long-lived staple of the Info-Mac card game co…

Romi is a Rummy card game for the Classic Macintosh by Gerard Brochu of Universite Laval in Quebec, letting a single player face the computer at three difficulty levels. Version 1.7.1 was distributed as shareware in English, French, and Italian editions, with this entry the third localized sibling in the Info-Mac archi…

Romi is a Macintosh rummy simulation written by Gerard Brochu and first released in 1994. It is played with two standard 52-card decks plus two wildcards, and lets the player face the computer across several difficulty levels. Multiple revisions appeared through the mid-1990s, ranging from a System 6 monochrome build t…

Round'n'Round (1997) is a non-violent puzzle game by Swedish developer Michael Andersson in which players rotate and connect curved track segments into closed loops. Completing a loop clears the pieces and makes room for fresh segments, with bonus tiles, hidden mini-games, and stereo music keeping the action varied acr…

RubikSolver 1.1 is a 3D Rubik's Cube simulator and solver for the classic Macintosh, written by Steven Loh and distributed through Info-Mac under the Primesoft banner. The cube can be rotated and zoomed in 3D space, scrambled with one click, and solved automatically in seconds.What it doesThe program presents an intera…

Runestone is an obscure Classic Mac shareware game preserved in the Macintosh Garden archive. With limited documentation surviving, it is known primarily through its BinHex distribution package and its evocative Norse-themed name, suggesting roots in the rune-and-saga aesthetic that flourished across small Mac titles o…

Santa Droppings Mac is a holiday-themed freeware action game for Classic Mac OS in which the player takes the role of Erni, the Aeternitas mascot, helping Santa deliver Christmas presents by dropping them down chimneys from above. The premise frames a simple aim-and-release arcade loop around a save-Christmas storyline…

Save The World is a 1999 arcade-action shareware game for classic Mac OS by Korean developer NoranGam Soft, distributed as a BinHex archive (save-the-world-102.hqx, version 1.02). The premise frames the player as a girl from a Mars Base sent to investigate an unnamed evil that has overrun a once-peaceful Earth.Setting …

ScanMon is a late-90s Mac shareware joke program by Jason Rainbows' Magic Theatre that pretends to turn your monitor into a flatbed scanner. The bit lands when you ignore the on-screen warnings and place your hand against the glowing scan area, triggering a startling gag designed to make a friend jump.The GagYou tell a…

Scarab is a Classic Mac-era shareware game preserved in the Mac Archive catalog. Detailed metadata for this title was not available from the project's curated sources at enrichment time, so the description here is intentionally minimal pending verification from the original distribution media or a trusted secondary sou…

ScreenTest is a movie trivia shareware game for the classic Macintosh by Brian Kelley (bkelley1@nycap.rr.com), uploaded to Info-Mac as version 2.0. The premise is simple: the program shows a quote and the player names the film. Each round runs twenty quotes drawn from a library of more than four hundred movies.How the …

Scribbles is a drawing and guessing game for the classic Macintosh by Jim DeVona, written as a project to learn the Mac Toolbox interface. Given a single reference picture, the player must identify the true match from among six closely similar copies, playable solo or head-to-head with another person.GameplayEach round…

An obscure 1997 Macintosh shareware title preserved as Secret Agent Joe 1.1.sit in the Internet Archive's Vintage Apple Macintosh Shareware Games Collection (Volume S), and documented by at least one third-party gameplay video on YouTube identifying it as a Macintosh game from 1997. No Macintosh Garden curator page, Mo…

Seismic Duck 1.6 by Arch D. Robison is an educational game that visualizes seismic waves travelling through the ground to teach how geologists prospect for oil. Players experiment with sound sources and sensors, then race to help a duck locate oil reserves before going broke. The game scales from grade-school accessibl…

Serie Foot is a Macintosh shareware football (soccer) program organized around Italian league play, preserved in the MacTrove archive as part of a small cluster of Italian-language Mac sports and game releases from the 1990s. Substantive curator-side documentation for this exact title is currently limited and the abstr…

Sewer Trouble is a small Classic Mac shareware game preserved in the Macintosh Garden archive. The catalogued release is distributed as a BinHex-encoded StuffIt archive in the idiom of mid-1990s Mac freeware, intended for System 7-era hardware and emulators such as Mini vMac and Basilisk II.About the entryThe Garden li…

Sheepshead (Schafkopf) is a popular family and community card game. Although the basics can be learned quickly, it has a number of subtleties which give it the ability to hold the interest of players over a long period of time. The rich history of this game has produced a number of local variations, but the basic outl…

Sheepshead 1.03 is a demo build of Uwe Rasche's Classic Mac adaptation of the trick-taking card game Sheepshead, submitted to the Info-Mac archive by Dr. John W. Sell of The College of Wooster. This release supersedes Sheepshead 1.01, refining the AI play routines and squashing several outstanding bugs.The gameSheepshe…

Shockwave Assault Cheaters is a small companion utility aimed at players of Shockwave Assault, the Macintosh release that bundled Electronic Arts' Shockwave: Invasion Earth and Shockwave: Operation Jumpgate. Macintosh Garden's catalogue describes the parent game as offering cheesy FMV goodness in a flight-combat shoot-…

Silver and Wood (stylized Silver&Wood) is a thinking-style puzzle game for the classic Macintosh, version 1.0 of which was uploaded to Info-Mac from a SilverAndWood@web.de address - a German hobbyist release with no publisher attached. It targets both 68k and PowerPC Macs and is pitched as low-footprint, casual play.Wh…

Silvergol is a small Classic Mac shareware game preserved in the Macintosh Garden archive. It targets the System 7 and Mac OS 9 era and is a representative example of the wave of independent Mac titles distributed through online shareware channels and CD-ROM compilations during that period.Classic Mac Shareware EraSilv…

SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony is Maxis's third Sim title, a 1991 life-simulation game by Will Wright and Justin McCormick that draws on Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson's research to model the lifecycle of a backyard ant colony locked in territorial war with a rival species of red ants.What you doYou take direct cont…

Sim Cinema Deluxe is Shannon Schroeder's 1999 movie-studio simulator for the Macintosh, in which the player runs a small Hollywood production company and tries to climb the box office through a pipeline of casting, filming, and release decisions. Version 2.5 - the build archived on Info-Mac - is the final release of th…

Maxis's 1993 isometric city builder gives the player a procedurally generated tract of land and centuries to grow it from frontier village to 22nd-century arcology. Will Wright and Fred Haslam added elevation, underground water mains and subways, nine power plant types from coal to fusion, terraforming, microsimulation…

SimCity, designed by Will Wright and released by Maxis in February 1989 for the Macintosh and MS-DOS, pioneered the city-building simulation genre. Players zone residential, commercial, and industrial land, lay roads and power lines, and balance taxes against services -- with no win condition, only the city you choose …

SimEarth: The Living Planet is a god-game from Maxis (1990), designed by Will Wright and programmed by Fred Haslam, that puts the player in charge of an entire world across roughly ten billion years of geological and biological time. Move continents, seed life, and shepherd a civilization to the stars.GameplayYou guide…

SimHarbor is a harbor-management simulation for the classic Mac OS by Paul Gronemeyer of AntSoft Entertainment. The city council hands you 200,000 pounds in starting capital and asks you to build a working Atlantic-coast harbor: lay piers, place equipment and storage, and service over 120 distinct ship classes.What you…

Simon is a 1997 Macintosh take on the classic electronic Simon Says memory toy, written by Fernando Lagos. The computer flashes a growing sequence of colored buttons and the player must echo it back, one tone longer each round. The simple loop turns into a surprisingly punishing test of short-term recall.GameplayWatch …