3-D Cannon by billc@CS.Stanford.EDU is a Macintosh shareware artillery game that updates the classic two-player tank-duel formula with real-time 3D polygon graphics, texture mapping over fractal terrain, and a chase camera that follows each shot through the air to its impact point.Gameplay loopTwo players command stati…

Released in 1995 by Slovis Software (Jeff Davis and Chris Sloane), Action Dome -- known in full as Alien Action Dome -- is a top-down arcade game where you guide Glerp, an awesomely huge super alien, through forty stages of bowl-collecting peril before a roving monster munches him into oblivion.GameplayThe action takes…

Allostris is a 1996 Tetris-inspired puzzle game by Frithjof Kohl that opens up almost every aspect of the genre to player tinkering. Instead of fixed tetrominoes, you design your own falling pieces, choose the playfield size, and tune drop probabilities, then race to top per-set high score tables.GameplayThe core loop …

Andy's Tracks is an add-on track pack distributed under the subject line "It's Christmas Already" by AndyRob1@aol.com. The BinHex header describes it bluntly as "a gift for anyone who owns a copy of Dirt Bike 3D" - meaning it is bonus content for the Mac shareware game Dirt Bike 3D rather than a standalone title.What i…

Apeiron is Ambrosia Software's 1995 Macintosh shareware reimagining of Atari's 1980 arcade classic Centipede, designed by Andrew Welch. It pits the player against a writhing centipede that snakes down through a mushroom field, with fleas, spiders, and scorpions stirring up the play area. Widely praised as the definitiv…

Avalon (full title Avalon 2029) is a single-player shoot-em-up action game for Macintosh by Bill Corbett, released as shareware around 1997 and distributed through Info-Mac. The player commands a tank fixed at the bottom of the screen and blasts waves of enemies running across the playfield, working through five distin…

Bachman is a 1992 Pac-Man-inspired arcade game by Swedish developer Ingemar Ragnemalm, presented from a pseudo-3D third-person perspective rather than the usual top-down view. Players steer Bachman through maze-like levels, scooping up power pills and grabbing temporary speed boosters while dodging or chasing the resid…

Balloon Man is a 1996 shareware arcade platformer for the classic Macintosh by Lasse Erik Krabye, released under the Zirk Studios label. The player pilots a literal balloon-shaped hero who drifts through space, collecting disks to advance and weaving past sharp star hazards that pop the balloon on contact.GameplayEach …

Barrack is a 1996 shareware arcade game by Greg Lovette, published by Ambrosia Software. The player walls off a playfield full of bouncing balls into ever-smaller pens, trying to seal off enough territory to clear the level without getting hit. It is openly described as a JezzBall clone with strong Qix DNA, dressed up …

Meticulously crafted by Greg Lovette, Barrack is a game that is hard to pigeonhole. It exhibits a precarious balance between action and strategy; thinking and reflex. The feeling you get from playing Barrack is an eccentric harmony between the automatic, mind-numbing pleasure of Tetris and the kind of action found in M…

Barrack Banner Replacement is a small player-made modification for Ambrosia Software's 1996 arcade game Barrack, created by Steven Marcotte (sdoran@cis.ksu.edu). Using Photoshop and ResEdit, the author moved the in-game title banners so that each label sits directly above the information it describes, smoothing out a l…

Barrack Discretion is a tiny patcher for Ambrosia Software's arcade game Barrack that permanently overwrites two of its more colourful in-game sound effects. It is aimed at parents and players who would rather not hear the game's "Oh My God" and "Shiiiiii" samples during play.What it doesThe utility opens the Barrack S…

Battalion is a freeware OpenGL-powered arcade-action game by Andy Johnson in which you pick one of four giant monsters and rampage through a small town, smashing buildings and toppling skyscrapers while a panicked military rolls in tanks, jets, artillery shells, and energy weapons to try to stop you.Monsters versus the…

Battle Pong (subtitled The Legend of Tabmok Gnop) is a 1997 freeware Mac arcade title by Brandon Kuroda under the Krappy Software banner, and the spiritual sequel to his Pong Kombat. It pushes the Pong-as-fighting-game gag further by giving each paddle two-axis movement, super meters, and run mechanics borrowed wholesa…

BattleTanks is an artillery-style strategy game by Swedish developer Niklas Frykholm, released in 1995 as part of his shareware package. Up to ten players take turns lobbing shells across destructible terrain, choosing from sixteen different weapons in an effort to blow each other up in classic Scorched Earth fashion.G…

Bert is a 1994 Q*bert clone by Swedish developer Ingemar Ragnemalm that swaps the arcade original's orange protagonist for a caricature of Swedish politician Bert Karlsson, hopping around an isometric pyramid of cubes and changing their colors while dodging adversaries.GameplayClassic Q*bert mechanics: jump diagonally …

Bikaka is a Tetris variant for the classic Macintosh by Swedish game author Ingemar Ragnemalm, who released a long line of small Mac arcade titles in the 1990s. Instead of the familiar square grid, Bikaka drops its falling pieces onto a hexagonal playfield, which changes both the shape vocabulary and the strategy.The h…

The Bilestoad v0.9e is an unfinished mid-1990s Macintosh demo of Marc Goodman's notorious 1982 Apple II combat game. Players control armored "meatling" knights in a top-down arena, hacking at one another with axes and shields. The Mac demo previews a never-completed remake of the original cult-classic bloodsport.Settin…

Bill the Demon is a strategy-arcade game by James Burton in which you play Bill, a small but plucky young demon descending through the nine circles of hell to prove his worth. The game features a scrolling background, colorful graphics, and plenty of surprises along the way.PremiseYou take the role of Bill, a fledgling…

Bill the Demon (Black and White Version) is the monochrome build of James Burton's 1996 freeware platformer, distributed via Info-Mac as bill-the-demon-bw.hqx alongside the color release. Burton, then at Stanford, packaged it as a Strategy/Arcade title for any black-and-white Mac with at least a 640x480 display.Premise…

Bloodlust is a PowerPC 2D flip-screen platform/action game for the Mac by David Johnston, archived in Info-Mac as bloodlust.hqx. The submission casts the player as an explorer trapped underground on an alien planet, with the overall objective laid out as escape back to the surface.ControlsThe author designs the game ar…

Blown Eye Preview is an early sneak peek at a PowerPC-only shoot-em-up in development by R. Bauer (rebauer@studi.unizh.ch) and distributed through the Info-Mac archive. Pitched as a Mac take on classic side-scrollers like R-Type and Nemesis, the preview shipped a single playable level from the planned classic world.R-T…

Blox Arcade is a 1995 Tetris-style puzzle game for the Classic Mac by Danny Espinoza. The shareware release packages three different variations on the falling-block formula in a single application, giving players a choice of rule sets within the familiar stacking-and-clearing loop.Three modes of falling blocksRather th…

Boat Wars is a Classic Mac shareware naval combat game distributed in BinHex form during the System 7 era. Players maneuver vessels and exchange fire across an overhead playfield, in the lineage of turn-based artillery duels and tank-style shooters that thrived on the Mac shareware scene.GameplayTwo-boat duels emphasiz…

Bob 1.21 is a shareware action game by R. Murphy in which the player controls secret agent Bob in a sequel to a thwarted alien invasion. Two years after Earth defeated an alien attack, intelligence reports that survivors are building an underground base on the planet, and Bob is sent in to finish the job.PremiseThe sto…

Bob's Bricks is a 2001 Macintosh shareware arcade game by Greg Gillis of Armadillo Games. Despite the title, it is not a Breakout clone: the player guides Bob, an ex-construction worker, beneath a continuous barrage of falling bricks across five levels in a quest to recover his lost memories.GameplayEach level is a sin…

Boingo Electro is a freeware sketch of a neat little game idea by Dadgum Games. As a little wild-haired fellow named Boingo, you hop about to project pulsing power jewels from deadly electric raindrops while avoiding electrocution. Don't let the freeware label fool you; it's addictive. This is the original 1.1 release,…

Bonk is a 1991 Macintosh shareware game by Mike Darweesh, described by its author as "a simple game inspired by the gopher games in some video arcades, the ones where you Bonk the gophers on the head with a soft mallet." It is a Whac-A-Mole style click-fest tuned for the Classic Mac mouse.Whac-A-Mole GameplayCharacter …

BonkHead Cheater is a small 1996-1997 utility by Cristiano Verondini that boosts the number of lives in saved games for the Macintosh arcade title BonkHead. Players simply drag a saved game file onto the application, and it rewrites the save to grant extra lives before the next play session.What It DoesThe tool operate…

BonYx 2.02 is an addictive little puzzle game for the classic Mac that draws inspiration from Tetris and Columns. Players click on series of colored stones, lining up matching colors to clear them and progress to the next level. Released by Impression89 in 1995 for System 7 through Mac OS 9 on 68k hardware.Simple click…

Boogalooper (Boogaloopers v1.2) is a 1997 Stick Man Games arcade title for Power Macintosh in which the player loops a tether around drifting energy balls called Boogas to clear them from the Void. The mechanic is a Mac-shareware spin on Atari's rare 1982 vector arcade game Quantum.PremiseThe Void sits between the matt…

BOOM is a 1997 shareware arcade game by Federico Filipponi at Factor Software, often described in its own marketing as Bomberman meets Doom: a top-down maze blaster where a green-armored space marine tears through 80 bomb-strewn levels of alien soldiers, mid-level monsters and bosses across eight themed worlds.Gameplay…

Released in 1997 by Texas-based shareware author Shannon Schroeder (locowolf), Borscht Raider is an overhead arcade game that puts you in the boots of a feisty Russian protagonist scouring Earth -- and beyond -- in pursuit of his favorite treat: bowls of borscht.GameplayLevels play out as obstacle courses viewed from a…

Released in 1990 by Tom Spreen, Breaker is a top-down arcade game in which players guide a character named Og around a maze, eating food while the shape of the playfield is constantly reshaped by the player and other characters in motion. The result is a frenetic, ever-changing puzzle of pursuit and evasion.GameplayPla…

Brettrix is a Classic Mac OS shareware title preserved in the Mac archive collection. No detailed catalog entry for this release is currently available from the project's primary curator sources, so the description here is intentionally limited to what the archived package itself documents.Archive statusThe title is he…

Brick Attack is a 1998 Breakout-style arcade game for PowerPC Macs by Dan Zink. The player paddles a ball through thirty top-down levels, smashing bricks of varying durability and snagging falling letter prizes for power-ups, with five levels free and the remaining twenty-five unlocked by registering the shareware.Thir…