Identify This '90s Mac Educational Game

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I believe it was the early '90s and it was on a Mac. It was a game where you played a horse (there may have been other characters) and your cursor was a carrot and it followed your cursor through a maze. The maze had doors where you had to answer questions to break the door down in sections. As you answered a question, a percentage of the door would fade away showing what is on the other side. I played this game along with Math Racer and Storybook Weaver; this game is the missing educational game puzzle piece from my childhood.

Also you viewed the maze from an overhead point of view, then when you reached a door, it would kind of zoom down, becoming first-person.

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Definitely NumberMaze.

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Mid early to mid 90's point and click RPG on Mac

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When I played this game it was 1994-1995 and I remember playing it on Mac (that was all we had in our schools computer lab). It was a point and click adventure similar to the Swords and Sandals series.

Although the graphics were very simple, they were already in color, so I know it was not an Apple 2 game. There was no animation, but only still pictures.

You named your hero and would click on the arena and choose from a large list of monsters from a rat to black dragons. You could upgrade your gear and buy new things in the armory, all using point and click interface.

I know there may be a few games in this era with this description so if any of you have any ideas ask me a question and maybe it will drudge up some more memories of the game.

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This game has to be Darkwood.

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Identify Monopoly-like game for old Macintosh

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The few things I can remember, besides that it's awesome, is as follows.

• The game takes place on a board, much like Monopoly.
• The title corresponds to something like Jones or James.
• You collect money, and can put them in the bank, but sometimes the bank gets robbed
• When you're out of money, you lose. When this happens, a screen showing a slightly overweight guy, standing naked with a barrel covering his torso and lower-body. The background-color of this screen is, if I recall correctly, yellow.
• I'm pretty sure you throw a dice between turns
• Last time I played this was around 1997 on an old Macintosh
• This game was hard, although I might have been too young to fully understand it correctly

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Sounds like Jones in the Fast Lane.

Edit: Looks like JITFL wasn't available for Macintosh, and a quick search didn't turn up any references to clones. Otherwise it seems to be a good match.

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Help identifying old Mac game with sharks, puzzles

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In fifth grade (~1997), I remember playing one of my first games for the Mac. You took a cartoony-looking fish (shark?) and moved him around with the arrow keys, pushing rocks and bubbles for some reason. There were also enemy sharks who would eat you. I also remember being so proud of having the highest score in the world after playing for several hours straight during summer school, so I think there was an online scoreboard (either that, or I misunderstood the scoreboard :( ). The game was 2D tile-based with no scrolling, and though the levels had some puzzle elements, I think the objective was to kill all the enemy sharks somehow.

Has anyone played this game?

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Sounds like you're looking for Bubble Trouble by Ambrosia Software.

A version that runs on Mac OS X was made available as well. (And it's Universal so it runs natively on Intel Macs)

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Roguelike game where you need to retrieve an orb back from the dungeon

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I'm looking for a roguelike game I remember from my childhood, running on Apple's Macintosh Plus machine.

Details I remember:

• It was a top-down view game with a deep dungeon you would explore, and you were able to develop your characters with spells / abilities - in short, a roguelike.
• Its graphics used actual images, it was not ASCII-based GUI.
• I don't recall if it had any 'save' feature or if death was permanent, and I don't remember if the levels were randomized.
• The ultimate goal was to find some "orb" and bring it back to the surface.
• Upon victory (and it wasn't easy), there was a picture of happy townspeople cheering, or something similar.
• The only monsters that I remember were dragons and "ice balls", which looked really similar to the orb you were supposed to retrieve.
• Some levels had boulders you could push around, and one of the later levels had some weird floorplan with lots of these boulders.

I guess the game is from circa 1987, and it was possibly monochrome (or was just displayed as monochrome on the macintosh's display).

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I think it's this one :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Revealed

http://www.gamefaqs.com/mac/938009-the-dungeon-revealed/faqs/46761

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Can you name an early 1990s tank based shooting game on Macintosh System 7.5?

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There was a very simple tank shooting game that came out in the early 1990s for Macintosh System 7.5 (I was able to run it on System 7).

I only have some very random memories about it; anyone have an idea on what it was called?

Game features:

• Tank shooter, in a fixed arena (squared box).
• Internal and aerial view of tank.
• Wire frame mode for slower Macs.

Game objective:

• Score points for destroyed enemy tanks, within a counting down round time.

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Thanks to @tzenes suggestion of 'Battlezone' that looked similar in the wire frame mode, but not quite what I remember.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)#Clones

In the 'list of clones' I was able to go through and discover, the game I was thinking of:

It was...

Spectre VR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(computer_game)

It looks to be available for purchase on the iPhone too:

http://spectre3d.com

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Old Macintosh game where you explore a spooky house after a car crash

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Played on a Mac in the early 90s. The beginning starts out by your car crashing into an old spooky house. And you go inside to look for help. It was in first person, but clicked left, forward, back, etc to navigate. You could interact with the environment as well. If you did the wrong steps the skeleton ghost lady (I remember her bonnet) would appear and it was game over. The game was in black and white.

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Sounds a lot like Uninvited.

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Identify a shooter game with mushrooms, snakes and lobsters?

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I played a game in the mid 90s that was on the Apple Mac (Power PC I think), which involved shooting a snake like creature that came down from the top of the screen.

The game had a static background, with your ship at the bottom. You could move it from side to side, and up and down as well I think. There were loads of mushrooms all over the screen which disappeared when shot, and powerups drop from them occasionally.

Lobster or crab things would appear near the bottom left or right of the screen, and move across, destroying mushrooms and trying to kill you.

Any ideas?

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Sounds to me like you're describing a Centipede clone, which in this case might be Apeiron, released in 1995 for the Mac. Apparently it's still available for purchase, but the only images I can find are for the sequel, Apeiron X.

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Taskmaster for Macintosh?

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I played this game when I was a kid (probably 1994ish) and loved it. I'd like to find a copy that I can download/buy that will work on my PC. Does anyone know where I can find information about this game?

There is a game of the same name about office work or something. This is NOT what i'm looking for. In the one i'm talking about you fight monsters with swords and the like. I think a company called Amana made the game but am not 100% on that.

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You can download TaskMaker here (it looks like you have to paypal a guy $10 for a serial - sketchy!), though running it on a modern Mac or PC is unlikely without emulation software.

Luckily, emulating Mac OS 7 isn't out of the question on a modern Mac. On a PC, your emulation options look a little less favorable.

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