35 years later, the great Shufflepuck Cafe game is, finally, available on the 8 bits Apple II line of computers.

Download:

Requirements:

• An Apple ][+ or more recent, with 64kB of RAM or more.
• A mouse (and MouseCard on ][+ and IIe, in any slot but slot 3).
• A real Apple II – emulators don’t do the game justice¹.
• The game is visually more enjoyable on a monochrome screen. This is a design choice. (If you are using a color monitor in conjunction with an RGB card (EVE, Feline, Video-7 or Apple RGB card, the game will be in black-and-white as intended)

More information:

I have tried to be faithful to the original game, and the implementation is almost complete. The only missing things are the player pusher’s configuration, and the mid-table blocker. I have had great joy developing it, and I hope you will have as much pleasure playing it on your Apple II.

Here is a short teaser of the game, against one of the toughest opponent.

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1. Known emulator issues
   – AppleWin mouse emulation makes the game almost unplayable.
   – Virtual ][ mouse emulation makes the game almost unplayable.
   – MAME apple2e emulation flickers awfully. Use apple2c emulation. Mouse emulation feels kind of wrong and the pointer leaving the window makes playing annoying. Use -nowindow.
   – Apple2ts.com flickers, feels slowed down. ↩︎