Hellcats Over the Pacific is a flight simulator focusing on the Pacific Theater of World War 2. The player assumes the role of a Grumman F6F Hellcat pilot in both land and carrier-based missions using guns and bombs.
Hellcats used a special algorithm that Eric Parker initially programmed on a Sun SPARCstation to speed up the display of graphics on the screen. Hellcats offered amazing 256 colors at a time when 16 colors were the norm and (for the time) insanely smooth and fluid animations.
The game was a huge hit on the small Macintosh gaming market, selling more than 50,000 copies. It ranked for years in the "most popular games" sections of magazines like Inside Mac Games and won Macworld magazine's yearly award for the "Best Simulation Game".
She's your cybernetic fantasy!
You've got a hot date with Valerie! Explore Val's "virtual world" and learn the true meaning of the term cybererotica!
An intuitive point-and-click interface makes Virtual Valerie virtually yours to play with. She's your cybernetic fantasy and you control the action! Hilarious rip-roaring entertainment in a sexploration adventure!
Halloween Night II is a 1989-1991 children's game by BugByte Inc. for Macintosh. On Halloween night, monsters knock at your door looking for candy. You hand them candy, cheer them up, and wait for the next monster to come by. While you're waiting, you can pet your cat or look out the window.
Theldrow is a turn-based computer role-playing game, written in 1989 by Glenn Andreas. The game featured a turn-based first person perspective interface similar to early Might and Magic games, pixel art (originally black-and-white), and a very original fantasy setting. It is a very difficult game.
In this metapuzzle game, created by puzzle designer Cliff Johnson, the player is the letter 3, which, during a power surge, has been zapped from a spreadsheet report into the bowels of the computer. 3 needs to repair the system, avoiding a virus detector and outwitting the taunting pi symbol, and ultimately get back home.
There's over 80 puzzles including:
Geometric lift puzzles – 3 needs get from one side to the other by walking on lifts moving up and down in certain patterns.
Mesh puzzles – a mesh (of 3x3 to 9x9 sizes) must be changed to match the pattern shown.
Missing vowels – missing vowels must be added to common proverbs or homophones.
Trapdoor puzzles – 3 must open or close doors, which will in turn trigger other doors, in order to get the whole set of doors in the same state.
Reordered word puzzles – 3 rearranges a word by clicking three letters which will each time switch two letters and form another word.
Logic puzzles – a grid of items needs to be rearranged in a specific order to m
Caper in the Castro is the first known LGBT video game. The player assumes the role of a lesbian detective investigating the disappearance of a drag queen in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco.
The game was distributed by BBS, with donations requested "to an AIDS-related charity of your choice for whatever amount you feel is appropriate". It was eventually commercially released as Murder on Mainstreet with all LGBT content removed.
MacGolf Classic is a 3D golf simulator adding more golf courses than it's original MacGolf. Also color is added to benefit from the Macintosh Classic Color computer.
A freeware game distributed in the late 80s via Macintosh's HyperCard system. It is a point-and-click adventure game where, after spending time in cryostasis a lone astronaut crash lands on earth. Seeking shelter in an abandoned mall the player must find a way out and figure out what happened to the Earth.