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Amazing

Rating:	Your rating: None Average: 4.7 (9 votes)
Category:	Puzzle
Perspective:	Top Down
Year released:	1984
Author:	Steve Capps
Publisher:
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Amazing.zip (10.98 KB)
MD5: 780a9026dc61767bafa999b1110e59da
For System 1 - 5 - System 7.0 - 7.6

Emulation
This game works with: Mini vMac

True classic maze creation game with options to create very complex, intertwined mazes that can be printed. It was made part of the 128K Mac's Guided Tour, and bundled with the published version of another Steve Capps game, Through the Looking Glass.

Capps wrote Amazing during Christmas week of 1981. It later came to the attention of Macintosh product training manager Hasmig Seropian, who felt it had at least three virtues for the Guided Tour. First, and most important, it seemed to atomize computer anxiety. "In a lot of instances," Seropian says, "people who were petrified of the computer didn't have any trouble going right up to a maze." In addition, it helped develop hand-eye coordination with the mouse, a device many Mac owners were meeting for the first time. Third, it gave users something to do while they awaited the appearance of more applications software.

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A penguin with a party horn hails one's triumphant arrival at the goal. Capps drew the animal on MacPaint one night when he had nothing else to do. He had been urged to provide some form of gratification to successful players and resisted as long as he could. Then he supplied a few of what he calls his "non sequiturs," such as penguins on roller skates. "It was sort of a joke on them," he says.

— ST.Mac, July 1984

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Vintage Mac or emulator only

Comments

by CalTheOnly - 2014, August 16 - 9:14am

Best mazes ever. Hard to find a simple maze game as good as this one.

by vintagegeek - 2013, May 16 - 7:54pm

I tried this under 7.0.1 on my IIsi and 6.0.8 but it would crash and reboot my system under every scenario. Oh well.

by wazeem - 2011, November 22 - 11:47am

I think if you like this game then you should consider a job with PCB design!

by someonebitmaleg - 2011, April 12 - 4:25am

It was a good little game. I remember it well. It's able to generate every new maze from a random seed. This ensures that the game is different every time.