What is Game Room?

Sierra’s GameRoom provides an entertaining frolic through six classic parlor games, offering enough variety and fun to keep any hyperactive kid (or adult) entertained for hours. You can play pinball, darts, pool, table tennis, table hockey, and shuffleboard — without getting your hands chalky or having to board a cruise ship with Kathie Lee.

Games launch from the main interface, which resembles a frat-house game room. One weirdness: While the main interface launches most games smoothly, it quits to launch pool and pinball, making it seem as though these were separate apps kludged on at the last minute. In some games (such as table hockey) you play against a computer opponent. Other turn-based games (such as shuffleboard) add multiplayer support. The variety of preferences available is a plus — for instance, shuffleboard offers four different tables, and pool gives you the option of playing eight ball, nine ball, or snooker.

While there’s good value in this pack, some of the games are duds — in particular, shuffleboard and darts. It was hard for us to get enough delivery force using the mouse — our shuffleboard puck barely traveled and our dart throws looked as if we had limp wrists. Another annoyance: ping-pong caters to a two-button mouse serve — one-button Mac mice be damned (you can use the keyboard, though). And Mac OS X gameplay was buggy. Still, GameRoom is a solid offering that should appeal to the lounge gamer in everyone.

Lu, Cathy. (July 2001). GameRoom. MacAddict. (pg. 56).

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Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.5 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver