#Shufflepuck game mac#

This is my favourite part of the game mechanics. Defeat Princess Bejin and she’ll provocatively reveal some cleavage When you get the puck past them there is a satisfying smashing sound accompanied by a brief but bizarre animation of the screen cracking where the puck left the table. You can choose to take on a single opponent from the eight occupants of the Café or play them all in a tournament.Įach opponent has various quirks to their game play to test your skills. Shuffelpuck Café uses a perspective trick to give a somewhat 3D feeling of playing air hockey against an opponent directly in front of you. “What does that word mean?” I asked, wide eyed and oh-so innocent!Īfter quickly navigating beyond this slightly embarrassing moment my Uncle set me up with my first game.

#Shufflepuck game mac#

On my Uncle’s Mac this read: “Some Cunt”. It proclaimed proudly the name of the Current Champion. The game was originally going to be a shuffleboard sim, hence it not being called Air Hockey Cafe!Īs I looked at the faces of my potential opponents staring back at me, my eye was drawn to the display board at the top of the image. I was impressed however by the detailed illustration of the café’s (ironically) colourful characters. Playing games in black and white was not something I was used to. As he fired up the Mac, I was initially disappointed by the monochromatic display. I do recall visiting my uncle one wet autumn Saturday and asking him: “Do you have any games on that computer?”įortunately for a bored kid on a rainy day my Uncle was able to answer that he did have a game for me.

Being the child of an actor, music tech didn’t impress me much as a kid. He’s a prolific composer of library music and had a Macintosh Classic in his home studio. The only reason I’d heard of the future richest tech company in the world was my Uncle. In fact, my 10-year-old former self was barely aware that Apple existed. One brand that tended not to feature in playground conversation was Apple. In 1990, when a 10-year-old kid thought about video games on a home computer, they would have probably been picturing Sinclair, Amstrad or Commodore.