Dropper

Dropper is a 1990 color puzzle game for the Macintosh by C.K. Haun, published by RavenWare and later Pointware. Cubes drift down from the top of the playfield and the player stacks them so that four of the same color line up horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, vanishing for points.

Gameplay

The mechanic is simple but compulsive: steer each falling cube into a column, build matching runs of four, and try to keep the stack from cresting the top of the window. Long diagonal chains and chain reactions are the main route to a high score.

Origins and authorship

The author, C.K. Haun, was a long-time Apple developer who released Dropper as a small color shareware title in 1990. Distribution moved between RavenWare and Pointware over the early 1990s as the game accreted minor updates.

Distribution

The version preserved here is Dropper v1.1.2, listed in the funet games index as "stack dropping cubes." It runs on virtually any color-capable Classic Mac and is commonly bundled in shareware compilations of the era.