Mwar

MicroWar (filed in the Info-Mac archive as mwar) is a Space Invaders-style arcade game by Pierre-Alain set in the cruel micro-computer industry. You command a lone Apple Macintosh holding the bottom of the screen against advancing hordes of substandard Wintel PC clones - a partisan satire of the 1990s platform wars.

Gameplay

Movement uses the arrow keys, with weapons fire targeting the descending PC formations. Each new level accelerates the horde, while flying saucers periodically drop bonuses and death marks: dodge the Microsoft and Intel pickups and rush to grab the Apple and Motorola ones.

Visual Identity

The 1.0b3 update folds in background screens adapted from Apple's print ads of the era, leaning even harder into the platform-loyalist humor that drives the whole concept.

Update 1.0b3 Changes

This beta improves full-screen handling, broadens the bonus mix, and tightens difficulty across the board. It also corrects a timing bug that caused the game to run unplayably fast on PowerMac G3 hardware, and graphics have been polished throughout.

Distribution

Released as freeware/shareware by Pierre-Alain (maddog.prod@altavista.net) under the MadDog label, with project pages historically hosted on Mygale (www.mygale.org/11/maddog).