Richard Moss

“Just hours after Apple first showed AppleTalk to the public, a large group of attendees headed to Chinatown and took over the back half of a pizza parlour. They set up two networks – one for each game – with around twenty Macs, played for several hours, then left the store as they’d found it. Years later one attendee, Jack Kobzeff, described it as a ‘hit-and-run, plug and play net game party’. ‘Net parties’ – or LAN parties, as they’re better known today – would become a fixture of both the Mac and PC gaming communities through the late 1980s and 1990s, but this was likely the first.”
― Richard Moss, The Secret History of Mac Gaming

“Cheshire continued to work on the game in his spare time, but it would never reach a wide audience on the aging, underpowered BBC Micro. If the game were to survive, it had to move to a newer platform. The Mac was the obvious choice. Unlike the PC, it had built-in networking capabilities and a standardised graphical interface, and the same piece of code could run on every Mac from the Mac Plus onwards – regardless of colour capabilities or screen size. It would take less work to do a better game.”
― Richard Moss, The Secret History of Mac Gaming