So, it's time to come clean. In the project description, I said that Datajack will be the spiritual successor to a 90s klik n play game: in fact, I was referring to The Establishment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sao6I9EGvSo .
In the 90s, with my brother Gib, I released many freeware games for the Mac under the name "Epic Banana". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Banana
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/epic-banana/
Note that this was long before "epic" became a staple of internet and irl lingo.
Epic Banana was best known for "A Day at Work," "Another Day at Work: Wednesday", "Yogurt Commercial", "The Establishment", "Office Building" etc. They were for the most part small, quirky games. Our focus was in pushing games and gameplay outside the traditional genres of action (so that you can play a videogame about acting in a yogurt commercial), adding details that were totally unnecessary to gameplay (like attracting police attention in a golf game), and just plain having fun.
Grey Gerling has been excellent enough to put together the Epic Banana archive (entirely without my help!) here: http://www.barfquestion.com/eb_site/eb_index.html You can still play these games if you have a PPC mac or emulator.
Maybe some of you remember Epic Banana, but probably most don't. The Mac game scene was great, innovative, communal and ultimately pretty small. I'm glad people have still kept the EB torch burning throughout the ages. Our return to the software scene will be EPIC- and of course, all our games will continue to be 100% free.
Ryan "Rickshaw" Foltz
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