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Architecture: 68k
Maze Wars+
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| Author: | Alan McNeil |
| Publisher: | MacroMind Inc. |
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Download mazewarsplus.zip
(1.61 MB)
For System 6.x - System 7.0 - 7.6
For System 6.x - System 7.0 - 7.6
This is the Mac version of Maze War, which you can read more about at the DigiBarn's Maze War Retrospective or Wikipedia.org.
CompatibilityArchitecture: 68k
Comments
Tried to install and play on a Mac OS 9.2
Sadly, It failed to run.
The designer/programmer of this game also designed the coin-ops Berzerk and Frenzy, both maze shooters, for Stern Electronics back in the 80s. Great interview with Alan at http://a9k.info/qna.html
Of course what I really remember from this period of time was an Atari ST game, MIDI Maze:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Maze
I've uploaded a new archive with bootable disk images of version 1.0 (which I just obtained) and version 1.1 (which had been here and on Le Grenier du Mac but not in a bootable image) and scans of everything included in the 1.0 package. There were no instructions in the box, though they are not really necessary. If anyone finds themselves in possession of anything related to this game, printed manual or otherwise, please let us know here. This was a significant early Mac game!
Are you sure Publisher is Macromind, could it probably be Engine?
What a hoot, I supervised a lab of 20 Mac Plus's at my university while I was a student there. On the annual open day, I had all of them running MazeWars, we were packed out all day.
I can't imagine Adobe having a cease-and-desist over this one.
Maze Wars was one of the first networkable video games, which was originally developed on Xerox research machines. It used the then-unknown Ethernet to allow multiple players to shoot each other in a simulated environment. Having never played the Macintosh version over a network, I can only assume the modem and LocalTalk icons are for networking the game. See the Wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_War