Awesome Resurrection

Awesome Resurrection is an obscure mid-1990s Macintosh shareware release distributed through UK Apple-magazine cover discs and preserved across the VintageAppleMac.com collection in numbered installments (Awesome Resurrection II, Awesome Resurrection 3, and Awesome Resurrection 4), each shipped as a self-contained StuffIt archive.

Setting and theme

Like the bulk of the cover-CD shareware that filled UK Mac magazines from roughly 1995 through 2000, the series carried minimal framing fiction beyond its grandiose title. The numbered installments suggest an episodic arcade conceit rather than a continuous story arc.

Gameplay

Specific mechanics are not documented in surviving public sources; the title appears only in the bulk shareware indexes assembled by VintageAppleMac.com from mid-1990s through early-2000s Apple Mac magazine cover CDs. Each installment ships as a small standalone StuffIt archive, consistent with the lightweight desk-accessory or arcade-style shareware that dominated those discs.

Development and release

The series surfaced as part of the wave of UK cover-disc shareware curated for magazines such as MacFormat and Macworld UK; it was later swept into the VintageAppleMac.com preservation effort, which captured the discs using OS 9.2.2-native tools. The author is unrecorded in MobyGames, Macintosh Garden, and Macintosh Repository as of 2024.

Reception and legacy

No contemporary review coverage survives in the public record. The title's continued circulation rests entirely on the cover-CD preservation chain rather than dedicated curator pages, placing it among the long tail of small Mac shareware that the mainstream archives have not yet catalogued individually.