Poing

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 new ones.

Gameplay

Poing! plays from a top-down perspective: the player guides a ball through a field of bumpers and flippers, racking up points as the ball ricochets around the playfield. The 50 packed-in levels ramp the difficulty steadily, and a practice mode lets the player isolate any single board to drill it.

Custom levels

A built-in editor lets players assemble their own mazes from the same bumper-and-flipper vocabulary. Custom boards slot into the same practice and play loops as the official 50, extending the game's life well past the packaged content.

Presentation

True to the marketing copy, the game leans on bright color art and an active soundtrack and effects mix - a deliberate counterpoint to the quieter, more cerebral Mac shareware games of its moment.

System support

Poing! is documented as compatible with System 7.0 through 7.6 and Mac OS 9, on both 68k and PowerPC Macs, making it easy to run on essentially any color-capable classic Mac or modern emulator.