NS-Tower is a 1996 arcade platformer from Japanese developer Nagi-P Software, presented as the inverse of the studio's better known NS-Shaft. Where NS-Shaft sends the player tumbling downward through a moving stack of platforms, NS-Tower flips the loop and asks the player to climb upward instead, dodging hazards as the…

Nuke Demo is a playable demo of Nuclear Hammer, a late-1990s first-person tank combat game from Banshee Software set on the dusty plains of Mars. Distributed on Info-Mac as nuke-demo.hqx, it previews single-player missions in a hovercraft-tank for Power Macintosh systems running Mac OS 7.5.3 or later.Setting and storyN…

Nuts And Bolts is a 1998 Macintosh shareware action game by Ronan Dowling, released under his BigFishLittleFish Software label. You control a friendly, roller-skating robot whose job is to roam each level collecting every nut and bolt in sight while stomping the small blue creatures scuttling underfoot.GameplayEach sta…

Ophiuchus is a side-scrolling shooter set in a lunar canyon, released in 1997 by Adam Winiecki under the Judah Software label. The player flies through tight rock corridors dodging rapid fire, guided missiles, and enemy bases scattered along the way. A small loadout of decoys, cloaking devices, and other deception gadg…

Outpost Nexus is a 1995 arcade shooter for the Classic Mac by Des Courtney, in which the player defends a fixed base against waves of incoming attackers. Its tone leans light and humorous rather than grim, and a steady stream of power-ups keeps the action from settling into a single rhythm.Base-defense arcade actionThe…

Override Maps is a downloadable map file companion to Ambrosia Software's 1998 release Escape Velocity Override, the sequel to the original Escape Velocity. Bundled as a roughly 310 KB resource, it offers reference cartography for the sprawling EV Override universe and complements scenarios and add-ons distributed alon…

Oxyd is the award-winning Dongleware puzzler that turned the Macintosh desktop into a marble-rolling laboratory of bits and bytes. Players guide a black marble through beautiful landscapes, manipulating switches, mirrors, and the life-giving Oxyds themselves to keep the digital world from suffocating.PremiseThe life-su…

Pattris (also distributed as Pattris++) is a 1999 Tetris-inspired puzzle game for the Classic Mac OS by Valeri Marcello. It distinguishes itself from the falling-block formula with a single-block piece that acts as a filler and shoots additional blocks into the well, blending arcade reflexes with puzzle stacking.Gamepl…

Released in 1999 by Matt Segur (msegur@nwu.edu) and distributed through the Info-Mac archive as peng-10.hqx, Peng! 1.0 is a fast-paced two-player 3D action game for Power Macintosh. The author frames it, half tongue-in-cheek, as the eternal battle between good and evil — light and dark, Leon Trotsky and Henry Rollins.G…

Per.Oxyd is Dongleware's 1993 sequel to the cult marble-puzzle game Oxyd, expanding the original's mouse-driven landscapes to 200 levels and over 250 interactive elements while keeping the same trademark goal: roll a black marble and open the Oxyd stones in matching pairs.How it playsYou guide a single black marble acr…

Ping Pong Deluxe is the inaugural release from Slipped Disk Software, developed by John Dalgliesh and posted to the Info-Mac archive as the ultimate two-player Pong simulation. The submission cheekily disavows fondness for the ancient white-ball-and-paddle original, then sets out to make Mac users the best version anyw…

Pod Armory Map is a player-made reference map of the Armory level from Bungie's 1993 first-person adventure Pathways into Darkness. Contributed to Info-Mac in March 1995 by Lucas Meyer, the file is a single-screen overview that helps players navigate one of the trickier early dungeon floors of the game without resortin…

This entry preserves a player-made map of the large Hell Palace area from Prince of Destruction, a shareware first-person dungeon crawler released for the Classic Mac in the mid-1990s. The file was contributed to Info-Mac on 24 January 1995 by Pamela Sears (psears@scripps.edu) as a reference aid for navigating that lev…

Poing! is a 1993 arcade game for classic Macintosh by Semicolon Software, billed on its Macintosh Garden page as "a fast, colorful, musical, noisy arcade game." It ships with 50 pre-built difficulty levels of bumper-and-flipper mazes and adds a level editor so players can practice individual stages or design entirely n…

Polybrid 1.0.9 is a falling-block puzzler from STH (ecl.psu.edu) that hybridizes the author's earlier Polytris and Poly-RC. It uses the polyomino piece shapes of Polytris but borrows the color-matching clear rule of Poly-RC, asking players to keep the well from filling up.PiecesPolyomino blocks made up of one to four s…

Poly-Kin is the Puyo Puyo-style entry in Daxeria's Poly-Series collection of Macintosh puzzle games, posted to Macintosh Garden in February 2016. Falling pairs of colored blobs drop into a well, and matching four or more of a kind clears them and rains garbage on your opponent.Part of the Poly-SeriesThe Poly-Series gat…

Poly-RC 1.09 is a falling-block puzzler from STH (ecl.psu.edu) in which short rows and columns of one to four squares drop from the top of the well and stop when they hit other blocks or the floor. The objective is to stay alive by clearing the board.How blocks clearSquares vanish when the player arranges three or more…

Polytris is a Tetris-style falling-block puzzle for the classic Macintosh, distinguished by its use of polyominoes of one to five connected squares rather than the traditional seven tetrominoes. Authored by STH at Penn State (STH@ecl.psu.edu) and distributed via Info-Mac, the version found in the archive is 1.09.How it…

Pong (specifically Pong2, also called Pong Squared) is a Corey Miller one-player Mac shareware twist on the Atari arcade classic, in which you defend not one wall but all four sides of a square arena, deflecting an ever-faster ball back into the playfield across 19 increasingly hectic levels.The twist on the originalWh…

Pong Kombat is a freeware Mac arcade title by Brandon Kuroda (released as Pong Kombat 3 in January 1996), descended from Michael Gagne's 1994 DOS original Pong Kombat published by Gagne Software. The game crossbreeds the primordial simplicity of Pong with the lurid grandstanding of Mortal Kombat 3, complete with paddle…

Andrew Campbell's 2001 release for Ambrosia Software is a brightly cartooned hybrid of Breakout and Pong, played head-to-head across a shared brick field. Two paddles face off on a single screen, smashing blocks into each other's territory while seven oddball "pops" — each with a unique special move — try to outscore, …

Postman Pat is a 1997 arcade-action shareware title by Garth Shoemaker in which the player controls a cyborganic postal carrier designed to deliver the mail in adverse conditions. With projectile junk mail and a grenade launcher in hand, the rule of thumb is that if something moves, it gets shot.Decommissioned but Stil…

Powerball is a 1994 Breakout-styled arcade game for Macintosh, written by Wolfgang Weber and distributed through Magnetic Software. The Macintosh Garden description sells it as fast 256-colour animation paired with music, sound effects, and the familiar paddle-and-bricks loop polished for the classic Mac desktop.Breako…

Pangea Software's August 1995 overhead run-and-gun, published by Interplay's MacPlay label, casts you as a tin action figure rampaging through a department store after closing time to rescue plush Fuzzy Bunnies from a toy uprising. The game shipped pre-installed on Performa Macs and won Macworld's Best Arcade Game of 1…

Power Pong is a faithful, no-frills Macintosh remake of the original 1972 Pong arcade game, written by David Hay and published as shareware by Caveman Creations in the mid-1990s. The author's own one-line pitch sums it up: "a modern rendition of the classic game of Pong. Nothing fancy, just pong."GameplayTwo paddles, o…

Power Pong 1.0.1 Updater is a patch by David Hay that brings PowerPong from version 1.0 up to 1.0.1. The update fixes a number of bugs, most notably restoring the main menu on displays larger than 640x480, a common limitation for shareware titles of the period.What the Patch FixesThe headline fix targets the main menu,…

Prima Materia is a 1996 freeware action arcade game by Art Kerns of Scumby Software (art@scumby.com), an enthusiastic homage to the brick-busting classics Arkanoid and Breakout that ships as a public beta -- version 0.1.1 -- compiled with CodeWarrior.GameplayYou wield a paddle at the bottom of the playfield, keeping a …

Jordan Mechner's 1989 cinematic platformer, ported to the Mac by Presage Software for Brøderbund, gives the player sixty real-time minutes to fight through twelve levels of a Persian palace, rescue the Sultan's daughter, and run the vizier Jaffar through. Its rotoscoped animation — traced from film of Mechner's brother…

PYRAMAD - The Egyptian Pyramid Game The secret pastime of the ancient Egyptians has finally been revealed. Pyramad will fascinate you as well with its intriguing combination of luck and skill. As you will discover, the real curse of the Pharaohs was that they could not stop playing this game! Pyramad is simple to pla…

Qrax (a.k.a. Prometheus) is a 1997 Mac arcade game by Quarter Note Software in the Qix tradition. You steer a small node around a rectangular playfield, drawing lines to claim territory while avoiding patrolling Sparx and the bouncing Firestix that ricochet through the unclaimed area.Capture the playfieldEach level is …

Querkz is a fast-paced Mac shareware falling-blocks puzzle game by Judah Software in which the player swivels paddles to line up colored 3D blocks four-in-a-row before they pile up. Version 1.5 adds two new block sets, a CloudRodent guest from sister title Cloudz, and a fresh music track.GameplayBlocks descend continuo…

Renegade Space Ninja is a 1996 side-on one-on-one fighting game for the Macintosh by Phil Stroffolino. A legendary ninja convenes a tournament on a mysterious island to settle a power struggle among rival factions, and you pick a fighter and brawl your way through the bracket against CPU opponents.PremiseThe setup fram…

Released in 2000 by Z Sculpt Entertainment (the small Boise, Idaho studio of Zackary Black and Zack Morris), Retro is a top-down arcade shooter for classic Mac OS that frames itself as a knowing throwback to the golden age of coin-op video games. Players blast through level after level of waves and bosses, with optiona…

SCS Mines is a 1995 Macintosh Minesweeper clone by Aaron Davidson, released as freeware under his Silicon Creek Software label. It keeps the familiar grid-and-flags loop and adds a satisfying bomb-explosion sound for every misstep, three difficulty tiers, custom game options, and a local high-score table.Minesweeper, w…

SCS Snake is a Macintosh take on the classic snake arcade game by Aaron Davidson, distributed on Info-Mac as scs-snake-131.hqx (version 1.3.1). It belongs to the small SCS family of compact Mac games released by Davidson, which also includes the minesweeper variant SCS Mines.GameplayThe player steers a perpetually grow…

Secret About Box is a Breakout-style arcade game that originated as a hidden Easter egg inside Mac OS 7.5. According to its Macintosh Garden entry, this release was hacked out of the System 7.5 resources and repackaged in Desk Accessory format so it could be opened from the Apple menu on its own, without invoking the s…