I have been searching everywhere for the original 1989 CD-ROM release of The Manhole.
As far as I know, only the 1995 'Masterpiece' version is available for purchase either new or second-hand. I couldn't care less about the color version - I want to see and hear it like I remember it from my childhood.
So, I would be very grateful if someone could help me locate this.
I have never heard of a CD release for the Manhole that was black and white. Then again, I remember getting a full-color print out of screenshots from the colorized version of Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel somewhere on the Internet. I've been told that a colorized version never existed, but from what I remember in the screenshots IS what's in Beyond the Mackerel, which I discovered years later. Bizarre, huh?
I first saw the Manhole CD version back in 1990 running on an SE/30 with an external CD-ROM drive, those huge single-speed things that sat underneath the Mac itself.
It certainly exists - I clearly remember the full voice, crisp b&w graphics on the SE/30's small screen, and the *very* slow loading CD-drive, which nevertheless was amazing to me at the time. It was the first CD game I had ever seen.
Wikipedia makes reference to it, saying the original b&w disk version was released in 1988, with the CD version following in 1989.
