Shufflepuck Cafe (Mac OS Classic)

Shufflepuck Cafe
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.

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

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!)

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".

Anti-Piracy Credit

CODE 4, the disk check routine, contains the signature of the firm behind it:

Shufflepuck Cafe
HLS Duplication