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Greebles

Rating:	Your rating: None Average: 4.8 (16 votes)
Category:	Arcade
Perspective:	Top Down
Year released:	1997
Author:	Peter N. Lewis
Publisher:	Stairways Software
Engine:

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greebles.sit (1.19 MB)
MD5: e889abcf0da8b61bf7cae57d5d587c41
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9

Download (external link)

Emulation
This game works with: SheepShaver, Basilisk II, Mini vMac II

A very similar concept to Ambrosia's Bubble Trouble although more complex and chaotic. Both of these are in part, based off of SEGA's 1982 arcade game Pengo.

Up to four players locally (or eight if playing on a network) drive tanks around the play area, pushing blocks into a variety of hostile critters, (the Greebles) ranging from flies to Dumper Trucks. An assortment of attributes power-ups contain within crushable blocks keep each one of the game's 100 levels interesting, from temporary invulnerability to blocks that explode on contact with everything when pushed.

This is a fantastically put together little game with charismatic music, hilarious gameplay and immense replayability. A standout title for Macintosh Shareware.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC

Works in classic

Comments

by 24bit - 2014, January 15 - 11:32am

Seems its freeware meanwhile. Many thanks to those donating the serials!
Serials (provided by Stairways Software)

Name: Greebles
Serial: 54AAAZVC24M4B2BP64

and here are extras for network play...

Serial: 3LJQNZ11T4CLGJY3MU
Serial: 54AAAZVC24M4B2BP64
Serial: 2NCF74LVGJC89FSEAS
Serial: C6KRWGB5SMQH5FCT1S
Serial: D5EFDQQQ9VQDBJ8LU6
Serial: 3H74W92BST3UAM9BK7
Serial: 716PZS7PTS8Y2ZV4F9
Serial: LEGKM3M25P0W63EMGT
Serial: A28K3ZH10DC94YWFQN
Serial: DE4UTTPJ1Q46NQ1JFS
Serial: LEKDTV6JRA4BHQTNFL
Serial: ND5YQHX4XEYFU80ZPK
Serial: G551DP1QFVQU2JDVUJ
Serial: 53L3TRED0NQZM00Q8C
Serial: F9DMYFLVC6PRCBZZNH

by WeirdoYYY - 2013, February 13 - 6:11pm

Spent hours on this with my cousin back in the day. The final levels are absolutely ridiculous. So fun though.

by YYsMG - 2012, October 22 - 1:25pm

I can run this game on Sheepshaver off the shared folder, but if I copy it to the HD it wont boot and spits out a type 3 error. Any ideas why this is?

Edit - Never mind, a restart sorted it

by themacmeister - 2010, March 17 - 1:02am

Stairways Software wins again. Don't forget to try MindThump - the greatest game ever made!

by IIGS_User - 2010, March 16 - 9:09pm

Works in classic

Doesn't mean it works in Mac OS X (at least) at all.
Please do not mention Mac OS X compatibility if you detect the game works in Classic.
Intel Mac owners will be very confused at this place, as they will get a msg like

'Classic Environment not available on this Macintosh.'

- Thanks to the editor who removed Mac OS X compatibility.

by Knight_Ken - 2010, March 16 - 12:22pm

Same for me i love it!!!

by YYsMG - 2009, August 20 - 7:57am

Epic game, i spent hours as a kid on one of the later levels, 'A Round Dozen', filling the screen with greeble generators and firing blocks into the resulting chaos