Kings Corner

King's Corner is a Macintosh solitaire card game written by Craig Marciniak and released in 1994. It deals the player one card at a time and asks them to place it into one of sixteen spaces that form a square, working face cards into the corners and edges. It is a compact, single-window shareware title typical of the mid-1990s Mac scene.

Gameplay

Each turn the player receives a single card from the deck and chooses one of the sixteen open positions in the square layout. The aim is to seat each face card in its proper slot along the perimeter, while clearing tens and matched pairs whenever the board fills up.

Author and release

The game was written by Craig Marciniak and distributed as Macintosh shareware in 1994. It is a small 68k application designed to run on the Macs and system versions common in that period.

Style

King's Corner sticks to a clean, uncluttered presentation: a single window, standard playing-card art, and simple click-to-place input. The result is a quiet patience game that fits comfortably on a small black-and-white or low-color display.

Emulation

The title runs under Mini vMac for monochrome System 6 and 7 setups, and equally well under Basilisk II for users who prefer a color System 7 environment.