Bogus Guru
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The Bogus Guru is a 2000 freeware mini-game compilation for classic Mac OS by Epic Banana (brothers Ryan and Gib Foltz), built with Klik & Play. Despite the System 7-era "Guru Meditation" nod in the title, the package is straight-faced absurdist comedy: a deliberately nonsensical menu screen wraps four short, tonally weird mini-games behind a single combined scoring system.
Setting and theme
Like the rest of the Epic Banana catalog, Bogus Guru trades on lo-fi sprite art, deadpan humor, and intentionally ridiculous premises. The four sub-games span unrelated genres and aesthetics, unified mostly by the studio's house style of cheap clip-art-grade visuals and joke-first design.
Gameplay
The compilation contains four mini-games: Rage of the Possum, Mannequin Wars, Non-Suicidal Edgar, and The Hunted. Each is a short arcade-style diversion playable from the shared launcher, with scores aggregating across the set. None requires more than a few minutes per session; the appeal is novelty and the tone rather than depth.
Engine and technical changes
The package was authored in Klik & Play, Clickteam's drag-and-drop game-maker, and runs as a fat binary on Mac OS 7 through 9 on either 68k or PowerPC hardware. Distribution sizes are small (around 2.6 MB stuffed, 5 MB BinHex on Info-Mac).
Development and release
Epic Banana was the freeware label of Ryan and Gibrian Foltz, prolific in the late-1990s Mac shareware scene with roughly seventeen Klik & Play and Cocoa joke games including A Day at Work, Walton's Rampage, and Pedestrian Devastation. The Bogus Guru was posted to Info-Mac in April 2000 and remains preserved on Macintosh Garden and Macintosh Repository.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
