Diaper Dash

Diaper Dash is a 1998 freeware arcade game for PowerPC Macs by Sliced Meats Development, built in Macromedia Director 6. Despite sharing a name with the later PlayFirst time-management title, this is a Frogger-style traffic-dodger in which the player guides an infant across a busy highway to reach baby bottles waiting on the far side.

Gameplay

The view is top-down across stacked traffic lanes, and the baby moves one step at a time under arrow-key control. Each lane carries vehicles at varying speeds and intervals; reaching a bottle clears the round and tightens the timing for the next one. The cited tagline ("Remember Frogger?? Well at long last, here's your chance raise the stakes. This ain't no little amphibian you're dealing with. This time it's an infant.") is unambiguous about its inspiration.

Engine and technical changes

The Director 6 runtime targets System 7.0 through Mac OS 8.6 on PowerPC hardware. The release is distributed as a single StuffIt archive (version 1.2) and is included in the Ultimate Dozen Dash Collection compilation indexed on the Internet Archive.

Development and release

Sliced Meats Development was a small late-1990s Mac freeware label; Diaper Dash was their highest-profile Director title and was reposted to Macintosh Garden in 2022 by curator moof. It received no commercial distribution.