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Wayne Gretzky Hockey (Mac OS Classic)

You miss DIVIDE BY ZERO ERROR percent of the shots you don't take.

Revisional Differences#

The only versions known to exist are black & white 1.0 and color 1.01. The latter was completed in January 1991, about a month after the game shipped, and was available to early buyers through a $10 trade-in program. It replaces the title screen design of the MS-DOS and Atari ST editions with that of the Amiga edition.

v1.0

v1.01

The expanded color palette brings with it a frill that was absent from the 1-bit monochrome release: skate marks accumulating on the ice.

Hidden Credits#

The title screen and about box solely credit Bethesda Softworks, but a two-string STR# resource called "Other Messages" exists (only) in version 1.0:

Macintosh Conversion by

Chuck McMath & Manuel Pérez

This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically: Is there a way to see this in-game?

References#


  1. The v1.0 master disks were created in early December, and the product was in customers' hands by the 28th.↩︎