## Description

At launch, two days after Ridley Scott’s 1984 commercial, the Apple Macintosh
hit the store with a bold plan to present itself as a business machine to
rival anything IBM had for the home consumer. To distance itself from the
seemingly disposable home video game units tarred in the North American video
game crash of 1983, the machine’s marketing division avoided appearing
concerned for its gaming potential, maintaining distance even between in-house
efforts like Through The Looking Glass. Nonetheless, two games were included
among the Macintosh operating system at launch:

* First, there was the multitaskable _Puzzle_ desk accessory, a sliding-tile game with its tiles numbered rather than patterned with images. ( _Puzzle_ remained with Macs until it was replaced with _Jigsaw_ in 1994 with Mac OS 7.5, and a similar game is included in the OS X Macs of today.)

* Second was _AMAZING_ , bundled with the “Guided Tour of Macintosh” diskette (and audiocassette!) included with the computer (and, curiously, also with distributions of _Through The Looking Glass_ ). As its name suggests, it’s a maze game where the player uses the mouse to trace a path connecting two points, a square and a circle, within a maze. Mazes of multiple difficulty levels are included.