Fawn is a 1995 HyperCard role-playing game by Greg Gillis, released through Armadillo Games as the studio's first RPG. The player takes on the role of Lance, a member of a special agency on the distant planet of Fawn, joined by Vincent and Sarah on a mission to right wrongs, solve puzzles, and unravel a strange sequenc…

Fighting Fantasy Fighter is a HyperCard helper stack by Adrian Gudas (az591@torfree.net) for fans of the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. It automates the books' dice-based combat so that readers can resolve battles cleanly without "fudging" rolls, and it can even roll up a fresh a…

John's Fire Witch is John T Baker's 1995 interactive fiction piece, a cold-weekend mystery set in Columbus, Ohio in December 1990. Built with the TADS parser, version 1.01 strands the player in a friend's locked apartment as a blizzard hits and a stranger story begins to surface.SetupYou arrive in Columbus expecting to…

Synergy Inc.'s 1993 Japanese interactive movie, expanded by Cryo Interactive into the 1997 four-CD Past as Future edition, drops you into a dieselpunk dictatorship where streamlined trains, brass instrument panels, and 1930s flying machines are state-of-the-art tomorrow tech. You play a government agent hunting the mis…

Game w/Fields is a HyperCard "shell" for building your own graphic adventure games on the Macintosh, posted to Info-Mac in the mid-1990s by Cindy M. Carney. Inspired by ICOM Simulations' classic Deja Vu, it ships as an unfinished framework released to the HyperCard community in the hope that another author will flesh i…

Gate is a 1993 action-adventure for the Macintosh by Joerg Kienzle. It blends arcade combat, exploration, and brain-teasing puzzles into a fast, smoothly animated quest to escape a castle prison, battle the captor's minions, and restore peace to the surrounding land. Smooth animation, music, and sound effects round it …

Gate (Kanji edition) is the multilingual release of Joerg Kienzle's 1993 action-adventure for the Macintosh. The player is a warrior thrown into the castle prison of Darg the Firemaster and must escape, battle enemies, solve puzzles, and defeat Darg in a duel to restore peace to the land of Divesia.The Kanji editionTwo…

Giza is a Mac-exclusive 3D first-person adventure by Bob Mancarella of Squeegee Software (later Caesar Software), originally released in January 1996 and updated through version 2.1.7 in January 2000. You play a scientist racing to save the Great Pyramids of Egypt from imminent destruction by recovering hidden secrets …

GM Screen Pro is a shareware SuperCard standalone application designed as a tabletop role-playing game referee's toolkit, intended by its author to be the best general RPG aid software available. It was created by Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere of Opifex Phoenix, who wrote over thirty professionally published adventures and…

Hax is a 1999-2000 fantasy role-playing scenario for the popular Macintosh shareware engine Realmz, written by John Rawlins (boru@rainbowdragon.com). Adventurers travel to the Madwood in search of the elusive town of Hax, said to overflow with gem-bestowed powers; many a brave soul has sought to open a trade route ther…

Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars is a 1996 turn-based strategy video game developed by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing and published by the 3DO Company. The game is the second installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic series and is typically credited as the breakout game for the series…

Hunter, in Darkness is a 1999 interactive fiction work by Andrew Plotkin, written in Inform and distributed as a Z-machine story file. A spare, atmospheric reimagining of the classic Hunt the Wumpus, it strips text adventure conventions down to single-word commands and lets the cave do the talking.A reimagined Wumpus h…

Invasion of the Goofy Aliens 1.0.0 is a 1998 SuperCard-based comedy shooter by Gooey Orbit Software, distributed through Info-Mac by jzack@suffolk.lib.ny.us. After friendly-looking aliens land on Earth and overstay their welcome -- raiding refrigerators, overfilling bathtubs, and trashing the house playing Twister -- y…

Drew Pictures and Spectrum HoloByte's 1993 CD-ROM thriller hands you remote control of a zoological research drone aboard the Earth destroyer Jeremiah O'Brien, where a mutagenic virus has rewritten the crew's DNA, tricked the ship's Defender droid into killing them, and locked the ship onto a planet-cracking attack run…

Jailbreak 1.0 is a 1998 graphic adventure game by Asa Swain of AArdvark Software, built with the StoryMaker authoring tool. The player takes the role of special agent 489, captured in a military complex after stealing important documents, and must use wits and a handful of items to escape.PremiseThe setup is classic sp…

Jewel of Arabia: Dreamers is a 1998 top-down party-based RPG developed and published by Quarter Note Software for the classic Macintosh, and it is the opening chapter of a planned Jewel of Arabia trilogy. The game stands out in the late-90s Mac RPG scene for swapping the genre's standard Tolkien-derived setting for an …

Jigsaw, subtitled An Interactive History, is a 1995 text adventure by Graham Nelson written in Inform. The Info-Mac edition packages Release 3 (serial 951129, Inform Library 6/1) as a Mac application, ported by Andrew Plotkin so System 7 users could play one of the most ambitious works of interactive fiction without a …

Journey: The Quest Begins is Infocom's 1989 illustrated fantasy adventure, written by Marc Blank. It pairs first-person narrative prose with static color artwork and replaces the studio's traditional text parser with a point-and-click verb interface, making it one of Infocom's most accessible later releases.From Text P…

File Name: legendary-lair-101.hqx Program Name: Legendary Lair Version: 1.0.1 Creation Date: 8 May 2001 System Requirements: Any PowerPC Mac with Mac OS 7.6.1 or higher, 24 Mb RAM, and 256-color monitor. Description: Legendary Lair is a turn-based, strategic, adventure game where the player explores and collects trea…

The Light: Shelby's Addendum is a science-fiction mystery text adventure written with TADS, the Text Adventure Development System. It was distributed as $10 shareware; the author asks that anyone wishing to reprint or redistribute the work contact mlkuehl@students.wisc.edu for permission first.GenreThe work is a parser…

Lmt Demo is the preview release of Legions of Min'Taut, a HyperCard-driven 3D point-and-click adventure from Likely Software circa 2000, distributed through Info-Mac as a teaser for an upcoming full-length game in which the player tries to open a portal to the Gate World in search of a missing stepfather.Setting and st…

Louis Street Adventure is a 2001 maze-and-objects exploration game built by Lisette Gagne-Yingling with her children Misa and Francis, then aged ten and nine. Players wander a neighbourhood maze, picking up valuables, meeting a small cast of characters, and working through tasks before celebrating at the end.A Family P…

Synergy Inc.'s December 1992 silent CD-ROM adventure, directed by Japanese visual artist Haruhiko Shono, drops the player into a deserted domed city on a red planet and asks them to fiddle with every console, switch, and machine they encounter. There is no dialogue, no text, and no inventory - only exploration through …

MacWesleyan v. 1.0 is a text adventure set at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, written by Neil deMause (neild@echonyc.com) and copyrighted 1995. It was uploaded to Info-Mac under game/adv/ as mac-wesleyan-10.hqx and is freely distributable over the internet.PremiseThe player's goal is to obtain all the n…

Map of Vast Mines is a Classic Mac shareware title preserved in the archive of small independent games from the System 7 through Mac OS 9 era. The title evokes the sprawling minesweeper-and-dungeon-mapping genre that was a staple of hobbyist Mac development.ThemeThe name suggests a mine-exploration or mapping puzzle, a…

Maya is a 1998 Mayan-themed adventure game by Brian Jones Productions, built with Al Staffieri's GameMaker engine. You play an archaeologist hunting the legendary Scepter of Quetesoma, and after weeks of searching you stumble onto an unmarked tomb and volunteer to descend into it.PremiseThe setup is pure pulp archaeolo…

Mister Monster Maker 1.0 is a companion authoring tool for Sword Dream, Luca Accomazzi's modular Macintosh role-playing engine. It replaces ResEdit-based scenario building with friendly, ClarisWorks-style assistant templates, letting designers craft monsters, treasures, spells, encounters, and over a dozen other entity…

Mr Cats Quest is an obscure Classic Mac shareware adventure preserved on Macintosh Garden, distributed in the typical late-1990s BinHex-and-StuffIt format. Detailed marketing materials for the title have not survived in the archive, so the BinHex wrapper itself is the primary artifact: a self-contained capsule of the g…

Mud-Haven is a comprehensive telnet-based Macintosh client built specifically for multi-user dungeons (MUDs). Released in 1999 by DarkSide Productions, it bundles aliases, advanced triggers, macro keys, arrow-key navigation and a pre-populated MUD manager into a single shareware package aimed at serious mudders.What It…

NetRPG is a Macintosh-era internet server application that lets a small group of friends run tabletop-style role-playing sessions remotely over TCP/IP. Rather than a self-contained game, it provides the chat rooms, dice, and session plumbing that a human gamemaster uses to run an adventure for connected players.How it …

Not Adventure II is a parody adventure game for the classic Macintosh and the sequel to the original Not Adventure. It pokes fun at the conventions of text and graphic adventure games of the era, presenting puzzles, locations, and dialogue that subvert player expectations rather than rewarding the usual verb-noun probl…

Rocket Science Games and SegaSoft's five-CD adventure, released January 10, 1997 on Windows and May 13 on Mac, sets you down in the year 2066 as nanotech engineer Lilah Kerlins, asleep in a tent next to a black mountain that should not exist. The mountain is what is left of Ceres, an atmospheric repair satellite that h…

Odyssey is a Classic Mac adventure and role-playing game by Nick Aschbrenner with TrailBlaze Software, distributed via Info-Mac. You play Bill Fey, Alaska's finest at search and rescue operations, called into action by an urgent fax while the rest of your team is away in Anchorage trying to control a disaster.Setting a…

Omega is a 1989 strategy game from MicroMagic that casts the player as a cyber-tank designer and programmer rather than a driver. You spend your budget on chassis, weapons, and sensors, then write the artificial intelligence that drives the tank in battle, with the actual combat playing out automatically once your desi…

Omega File Converter is a small utility built around Stuart B. Marks' Omega game and toolset for the classic Macintosh. It translates Omega-related data files between formats so that saved games, character data, or scenario files can move between releases or be inspected outside the main program.PurposeProvides a focus…

The Path to Fortune is Volume One of The Windhall Chronicles, a parser-driven text adventure designed by Jeff Cassidy and co-written and programmed by C.E. Forman using Inform 5.5. Distributed in 1995-1996 as a Mac interpreter bundle, it carried a $10 shareware request for maps and an Infocom-style hint book.The Windha…