Take something mundane like air hockey add aliens and immediately turn it into something deeply enjoyable...voila: Shufflepuck Cafe.
The Scene: A rainswept neo-noir night in some deserted part of the city, down on your luck you catch the glow of a neon sign reading: Shufflepuck Cafe. 'What the hell!', pushing open the door you are assailed by swanky 8bit bistro music, a menagerie of characters, whose business is probably split between here and Moss Eisley and a gleaming shuffle puck board commanding pride of place in the center of the room. The place is buzzing, in a feat of blithe anachronism an obliging cyborg chalks up the tournament hopefuls on the blackboard and there is still room for one last entrant! Who would have guessed the night would turn out like this!
If at first it seems strange that shuffle puck has survived in its original form so far into the future; your doubts will be obliterated as you get embroiled in your opening tournament match against Chip (the nebbish goof who seems alarmingly out of place...perhaps he is having an 'After Hours' sort of night), the joy of viciously rocketing a rubber puck in the direction of his milksop personage is truly one of the highlights this digital era has to offer. As the tournament progresses naturally the foes get tougher: yet each has his strengths and weaknesses (my favorite is the dapper crocodillian alien who starts the match playing at his full abilities but is increasingly confounded by his love for space maritinis). Finally having beaten the intimidating reigning champion Biff Raunch, your name is written up on the board and you can rest your weary shufflepuck hand and wallow in the small measure of fame you have garnered in this most eclectic of cafes!
Numerous versions of this game exist; including the original classic on the Apple Mac, a decent MS-DOS version, Amiga and even a Japanese Famicom release. The graphics, music and even characters all differ slightly between each version. There are even a few total remakes and variations on the theme of which I have yet to investigate.
The Scene: A rainswept neo-noir night in some deserted part of the city, down on your luck you catch the glow of a neon sign reading: Shufflepuck Cafe. 'What the hell!', pushing open the door you are assailed by swanky 8bit bistro music, a menagerie of characters, whose business is probably split between here and Moss Eisley and a gleaming shuffle puck board commanding pride of place in the center of the room. The place is buzzing, in a feat of blithe anachronism an obliging cyborg chalks up the tournament hopefuls on the blackboard and there is still room for one last entrant! Who would have guessed the night would turn out like this!
If at first it seems strange that shuffle puck has survived in its original form so far into the future; your doubts will be obliterated as you get embroiled in your opening tournament match against Chip (the nebbish goof who seems alarmingly out of place...perhaps he is having an 'After Hours' sort of night), the joy of viciously rocketing a rubber puck in the direction of his milksop personage is truly one of the highlights this digital era has to offer. As the tournament progresses naturally the foes get tougher: yet each has his strengths and weaknesses (my favorite is the dapper crocodillian alien who starts the match playing at his full abilities but is increasingly confounded by his love for space maritinis). Finally having beaten the intimidating reigning champion Biff Raunch, your name is written up on the board and you can rest your weary shufflepuck hand and wallow in the small measure of fame you have garnered in this most eclectic of cafes!
Numerous versions of this game exist; including the original classic on the Apple Mac, a decent MS-DOS version, Amiga and even a Japanese Famicom release. The graphics, music and even characters all differ slightly between each version. There are even a few total remakes and variations on the theme of which I have yet to investigate.
- Shufflepuck Cafe (aka シャッフルパック カフェ), a really nice sports game sold in 1989 for DOS, is available and ready to be played again! Also available on Mac, Amiga, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST, time to play a paddle / pong and sci-fi / futuristic video game title.
- TuxPuck is an OS X port of the Linux game. It's a kind of air hockey simulator, along the lines of the awesome Shufflepuck Cafe, it's also fiendishly hard. It is released under the GPL, you can read more about the original game and get the source code on the TuxPuck homepage.
One puck, and only two competitors. One is the computer, and the other is, of course, you. You get a chance to match your skills at this Air Hockey style game, over 'Cantina Band' inspired music. Deflect the puck around the walled area using your bat, trying to knock it into your opponent's goal.The. Download the best games on Windows & Mac. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies, and lots of pure customer love.
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Finally allow me to decree conclusively that there is no better interstellar era shufflepuck game in existence!
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Developers: Christopher Gross, Brøderbund Software Publisher: Brøderbund Software Platform: Mac OS Classic Released in US: 1988 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. |
Air hockey. Air hockey never changes.
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Icons
These portraits of Skip and Eneg may have been designed for dialog boxes like those seen below. (If the close-up of Eneg is hard to recognize, it's because he lacks that philtrum between his nostrils in all other art.)
Dialog Boxes
File Management
The retail Mac version has no save or load functionality, but these vestigial error messages hint that it was once otherwise.
'ZedSiva'
ALRT 23, 'debug', contains this enigmatic string:
Other Errors
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Not even shrinking the game's RAM allocation until it could barely launch or deleting all of its PICT resources were enough to trigger these two alerts. (In fact, the game played as usual with the puck and paddles floating in a black void!)
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Swapped Names
On the title screen, the credits for Gene Portwood and Lauren Elliott will trade places (up to three times, if you don't click first). This graphic suggests that something similar was planned for the about box, but no combination of modifier keys, other input, circumstances, or waiting has made it say anything other than 'Gene Portwood & Lauren Elliott'.
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Anti-Piracy Credit
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CODE 4, the disk check routine, contains the signature of the firm behind it:
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