Thief of Hearts is a self-styled instructional graphic adventure released as shareware by Harley Bradley under the MagicHat Shareware label. It frames itself as a tongue-in-cheek dating tutorial in which nine animated guides walk the player through a sequence of pickup scenarios, classic mistakes, and date-night strate…

Three's is a small Macintosh puzzle game by M. Conrad (Mike) Tilstra, in which the player slides differently coloured pegs into matching rows or columns. As soon as a row or column is filled with same-coloured pegs it locks permanently; the puzzle is solved when every peg is locked into a like-coloured line.GameplayMac…

Thunder is a Battle.net chat client for the Macintosh by Seth Lowe, distributed through Info-Mac's game tree because it targets Blizzard's online gaming service. It brings the kind of robust chat and bot features long enjoyed by Windows users to Mac players of Diablo, StarCraft, and other Blizzard titles of the era.A M…

Tickle-Me Pikachu is a 1999 novelty toy by Ben Stommes of BEN Software, written for classic Mac OS. The player picks a hand or a feather and pokes around the screen looking for the ticklish spots that will make Pikachu laugh, in the spirit of the era's Pokemon-themed desktop curios.Find the ticklish spotsGameplay consi…

Tic-Tac-Toe is a 1993 Macintosh shareware implementation of the classic three-in-a-row pencil-and-paper game, written by Jordan Pinsker. The release supports both single-player matches against the computer and head-to-head games between two humans sharing the same Mac, packaged in a no-frills System 7-era interface.Gam…

Tic Tac Toe 4D is a Classic Mac take on the higher-dimensional version of the familiar paper game, expanding the 3x3 grid into a stack of boards that players visualize as a four-dimensional space. It belongs to the small family of mathematical and abstract strategy games that circulated as Mac shareware.Beyond the 3x3 …

TicTacTom v1.0 is a small Tic Tac Toe program for the classic Macintosh, submitted to the Info-Mac archive by TomWalaka@aol.com. Unlike most Tic Tac Toe utilities of the era it supports two boards: the standard 3x3 grid and a 3D 4x4x4 variant in the spirit of Qubic, giving it a little more depth than the usual one-scre…

Time Waster Collection is a small classic Mac OS shareware bundle of casual mini-games, distributed via Info-Mac in October 2002 as time-waster-collection-30.hqx (5.1 MB, version 3.0). It belongs to the late-Classic-era genre of "office distraction" compilations: a single download wrapping several short-session arcade …

Tomato Head is a 1996 children's creativity toy in the spirit of Mr. Potato Head: you dress and accessorize a cartoon tomato body by dragging articles of clothing onto it. The Mac release was distributed by Bry-Back Manor and mirrored to the Info-Mac archive as a BinHex 4.0 stuffit package.What you doThe Macintosh Gard…

What is TotoTurbo? TotoTurbo is a FAT application that runs natively on Macintoshes and Powermacs. TotoTurbo enormously facilitates your formulation of complex systems of Totocalcio,Totip, Enalotto, LotoFoot and Israelian Toto. TotoTurbo 1.4.3 lets you: - create systems from only 1 column to 15 triples - constrain th…

Grey Tower (also released as The Tower) is Louise Hope's World Builder adventure, first released in 1996 as a black-and-white build and rebuilt as a color 68K version (v1.4) in 1999. Macintosh Garden tracks expansions and re-releases all the way through 2014, making it one of the longer-lived titles in the World Builde…

This entry catalogs Tracktor Beam v1.2, the bug-fix follow-up to William Thimbleby's 1999 action-puzzle game from UK shareware label Tri-Bar. The premise is unchanged: pilot a small ship that ferries objects between locations using its tractor beam, with the v1.2 update focused on PowerPC stability and packaging.What i…

Trainspotters Puzzle is a fitword crossword generator and solver for the classic Macintosh, written by Tore Mortensen and distributed as shareware via Info-Mac. It builds fitword puzzles from any chosen word source, including plain text files or computer-generated 'license plates', and lets you solve them on screen.Wha…

Traversal is Catara Software's $10 shareware puzzle game for early Mac OS X, billed by author Catara as an "addictive coffee-break game" - a round or two finishes in the time it takes a latte to cool. The object: eliminate as many tiles as possible from the board without boxing yourself in.The puzzleEach round starts w…

Trinity is a 1986 interactive fiction adventure written by Brian Moriarty and published by Infocom. An American tourist vacationing in London during the Cold War escapes a sudden nuclear attack by stepping through a door floating in the air, and is drawn into a meditative, anti-war journey across the history of atomic …

Trinity, from Divinity Software, is a 1999 multiplayer board game for the Classic Mac OS by James Mastro. Players take turns placing triangular tiles on a shared playfield in a manner reminiscent of dominoes, building patterns and competing for position from a top-down view.GameplayEach turn a player places a triangle …

Released by Stick Software (Ben Haller) in 2004 as $15 Mac OS X shareware, Trisection reworks the Tetris formula on a grid of equilateral triangles instead of squares - players score by completing solid-color triangular regions rather than clearing horizontal lines, a constraint Haller pitched as "much more intellectua…

Tri-Tac-Toe is a 1994 Macintosh take on classic tic-tac-toe by Seth Tabberer, published by Sandy Knoll Software. It dresses the familiar three-in-a-row grid in 3D-rendered playing pieces viewed from a tilted board perspective, giving the simple game a more substantial visual presence on color Macs.GameplayThe rules are…

Trojka is a 1994 falling-block puzzler from Maarten Los of E4-Software that twists the Tetris formula: you clear sets of three or more same-colored blocks, but only along rows or diagonals. Vertical columns refuse to disappear, so every drop forces you to plan in two directions at once.How it playsYou steer pieces with…

TRON-ish is a Mac spinoff of the classic light-cycle game from TRON, in which players race trails of light across the arena and try to box opponents into a wall, an obstacle, or one of the trails left behind. Lost Minds released the title through Foxchange Software in 1998 for 68k Macs running System 7.Light-Cycle Comb…

Turtle Dice is a 1998 shareware Yahtzee-style dice game from Greg Pierce and Turtle Productions, distributed for classic Mac OS as a compact .sit archive. It implements the familiar five-dice scoring categories without trying to expand the format, making it a quick-play title aimed at solo or pass-and-play sessions on …

Turtle Dice is a 1998 Mac shareware dice game by Greg Pierce of Turtle Productions. It is a clean, straightforward implementation of a Yahtzee-style scoring game, designed for the Classic Mac OS desktop and rendered comfortably on 256-color displays of the System 7 and Mac OS 9 era.Yahtzee-Style Dice ScoringPlayers rol…

UHS Mac is the Macintosh build of the Universal Hint System reader, version 4.0, published by Illume Software. Universal Hint System files give step-by-step solutions to puzzle-based adventure and role-playing games while letting the player reveal one hint at a time, from subtle clue down to full answer.ConceptUHS is a…

Ultimate Pool is a $20 shareware physically-realistic pool simulation for Power Macintosh. The balls, table, and cues are scaled versions of their real-world counterparts, and balls roll and collide using simulated physics rather than scripted shot outcomes. Seven computer opponents of varying skill provide single-play…

Unicycle! is a 1997 side-scrolling arcade game for the classic Mac OS by Brian Kendall, the developer behind The Demented Cartoon Movie. It pairs cheerful, very catchy chiptune music with straightforward, addictive gameplay that escalates into genuinely challenging later levels and a famously surreal bonus round.Pedal,…

Unreal 1.0 is the original 1998 first-person shooter from Epic MegaGames, ported to the Macintosh by Westlake Interactive and published by MacSoft. Players awaken aboard the crashed prison ship Vortex Rikers on the alien world Na Pali, piecing together a story through translated text logs while battling the Skaarj.Engi…

Westlake Interactive's January 17, 2000 Mac port of Epic and Digital Extremes' 1999 arena shooter brought the Unreal Engine 1's gladiatorial multiplayer to PowerPC with a single-player ladder against bot champion Xan Kriegor and six modes: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Domination, Assault, and Last Man…

USA Puzzle is a small jigsaw stack built for SuperCard Player, presenting a map of the United States that the player reassembles state by state. It is one of the many lightweight, single-purpose entertainment titles distributed through the Info-Mac archive in the mid-1990s.How it playsThe puzzle ships as a SuperCard pr…

Valentine Time is a free children's holiday activity for the classic Macintosh, distributed by the late-1990s educational mini-publisher Bry-Back Manor and uploaded to Info-Mac by an author writing from a Catzlover@aol.com address. It pairs a make-your-own-Valentine craft tool with a simple Valentine-themed game intend…

Valley of the Vampire is a short HyperCard freeware game by Josh Hague and Ross Montgomery, self-described as a rather pointless first effort in which the player tracks down a vampire, dispatches it by pressing the correct button, and then heads home to clean their room. The Info-Mac release ships as an installer.Gamep…

Venus, distributed on Info-Mac as Venus Oracle, is an obscure HyperCard stack billed as a deity-deck dedicated to the Roman goddess of love. It bundles mythological background, small games, and an oracle generator into one self-contained interactive experience for Classic Mac users.ConceptThe stack centres on Venus as …

Video Poker is a 1992 HyperCard implementation of the classic five-card draw video poker machine, written for Macintosh by Don Hewitt. Distributed as a single HyperCard stack, it lets players choose between black-and-white and full-color presentations from the opening screen, making it an unusually polished freeware en…

Wadtool is a Mac graphics management utility released in December 1998 by Phaedrus Qtensilius of Quakeintosh, aimed at level designers working with id Software's Quake. Despite the Doom-style WAD nickname, the program targets Quake's texture wads, filling a long-standing gap in Mac-side editing tools.OriginAnnounced on…

WallRunners(tm) v2.0 -- "The Simply Challenging Game(tm)" WallRunners, which in its primitive days was known as SuperBike, is a very simple, yet extremely addictive shareware game for Mac OS. The two-player mode is an absolute blast! In the not-so-distant future, cybersports, played across the Internet, are the prima…

Blizzard's 1995 real-time strategy sequel pushed Warcraft's human-vs-orc war into SVGA color, gave it ships and zeppelins, and introduced the fog of war that became an RTS staple. Two factions, fourteen missions per side, eight-player Battle.net-style multiplayer over IPX or modem — and a soundtrack by Glenn Stafford t…

Warm Fuzzies is a 2001 arcade game by Angela Brett, ported to Mac OS X as her first Cocoa application. Players inhabit a world divided between cheerful warm fuzzies and grumpy cold pricklies, and the goal is to convert the latter into the former, brightening the world one creature at a time.Origins on an AmstradThe aut…