Let The Games Begin

Chapel Hill, N.C.--Watch out for surprise salvos, spooks on suicide runs,
enemy supply ships, bonus prizes on parade, and a cast of nasties bobbing
and weaving, evading your every move! Readers of MacArcade: Don Rittner's
Top Shareware Game Picks are duly warned as they enter the treacherous
realms created by this unique collection of Macintosh shareware games, new
from Ventana Press.

"Everyone plays games--and shareware lets you do it without breaking the
bank," says Mac games guru Don Rittner. MacArcade presents the best of the
lot for Systems 6 and 7: 40 low-cost or no-cost games as good as or better
than commercially available software. This package does more than just
whet readers' appetites for fun. It includes ten games on two disks, ready
to pop into the computer and play.

Featuring game descriptions, hints and tricks for enhancing computer
performance and evading soaring nasties, quirky bios and photos of even
quirkier shareware authors, MacArcade epitomizes the playful spirit of the
Macintosh community. (Rittner confides that Ben Haller, Solarian II
author, promised to cut his hair into a mohawk and dye it purple if
Ventana would publish his picture in color--we didn't.)

Novices will appreciate the book's thorough explanation of "this
'shareware' thing" and the online services where the games reside, as well
as suggestions for optimal hardware and software configurations.
Experienced Mac aficionados may find inspiration in the shareware authors'
own stories of their games' evolution.

Ever the champion of interactivity, Rittner encourages readers to help
select the best new games that will appear in future editions of MacArcade
by providing a reply card with space for readers' picks in the back of the
book.

A consummate gamesman since purchasing one of the first Macs in 1984, Don
Rittner also runs the MUG News Service (MNS), created and manages the
online forum for the Society for Environmental Journalists and founded and
presides over Computer Users for Social Responsibility, Inc. He is the
author of EcoLinking: Everyone's Guide to Online Environmental Information
(Peachpit Press), the first electronic directory of Missing Children and
several articles in MacUser and MacWeek magazines.

MacArcade comes with two disks and is softcover, 7" x 9", 200 pages with
illustrations and shareware author photos. Suggested retail price: $27.95.
ISBN: 1-56604-038-8.

Ventana Press publishes books that help computer users make the most of
their hardware and software. Best-selling titles include The Mac Shareware
500, The Official America Online Membership Kit & Tour Guide (Macintosh
and PC versions), The System 7 Book, Looking Good In Print and Voodoo DOS.
All titles are available in bookstores and through Ventana Press, P.O. Box
2468, Chapel Hill, NC 27515

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