Sea Dreams

SeaDreams 1.1.1 is a SuperCard point-and-click pirate adventure for the classic Mac OS. The player is shipwrecked aboard the sunken Titanic, taken over by the ghosts of "dirty rotten nasty old scurvy pirate thieves," and must navigate a maze of underwater rooms in search of their hidden treasure.

An overboard adventure

Submitted to Info-Mac by jzack@suffolk.lib.ny.us, SeaDreams describes itself as "An Overboard Adventure." The hook is intentionally tongue-in-cheek: the buried prize may turn out to be "a somewhat, to some, valuable, wooden barreled scuttlebutt," and the writing keeps the same salty, comedic register throughout.

Built in SuperCard, not HyperCard

While the gameplay feels like a HyperCard adventure -- linked rooms, click-driven exploration, a giant interconnected maze -- the title is actually built in Allegiant's SuperCard, which gave authors color graphics and richer media than HyperCard offered out of the box.

System requirements

SeaDreams runs on any grayscale or 256-color Mac with 5 MB of RAM and System 6.0.4 or later, putting it comfortably within reach of mid-1990s 68k machines as well as early Power Macs running the Classic environment.

Distribution

The 1.1.1 release was distributed as sea-dreams-111.hqx through the Info-Mac game/adv archive and mirrored via funet, where this entry is sourced.