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.
CompatibilityCapps 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
Vintage Mac or emulator only
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Best mazes ever. Hard to find a simple maze game as good as this one.
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.
I think if you like this game then you should consider a job with PCB design!
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.
Works in SSW 7.0 on my SE.
Edit: Replaced 'xxx 7' with 'SSW 7' - IIGS User
longlivemacs:
Probably not. As far as my investigations can show, this one is System 6 only. Not surprising, since it was published 25 years ago!!
can this run on any later systems??
ohhh I remember this one
Good, because SSW 7 lags on my Mac SE!
Edit: Replaced 'xxx 7' with 'SSW 7' - IIGS User
Stick to Mini vMac with System 6 to run this one. Locks up in Basilisk II.