One of my favourite games as a kid. There was an entire… genre? of games like this. Especially on the Mac. Journeyman Project, Spaceship Warlock. All the Cyan games of course. HyperCard-likes I’m going to call them.
It’s hard to explain today why it felt so advanced in 1991. The fact that it ran from CD on the expensive, exotic Macintosh II while other games were low-res and loaded from floppies on MS-DOS or Amiga was a big factor.
Here’s a nice blog post about the game: https://tagn.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/remembering-spaceship-...
I got it in this really cool shaped box that came with like 15 games. I’ll have to recall what it’s called. Something like the “Macintosh CD Game Pack”
I remember it included Powermonger, Spectre VR, Power Poker, Labyrinth of Time, Populous 2, and many more.
I got this game for Christmas and wasn’t really bright enough to get through the whole thing at 7 but it was a really interesting game that I’d forgotten about until now.