ActionSoft has released Midnight Mansion, an action game for the Mac that will take players back to the glory days of coin-op arcade games as they explore eight mansions filled with traps, puzzles and secrets on a quest for treasure. You must ride on conveyor belts, avoid zappers and dodge monsters as you collect keys to unlock doors to gain access to new areas of each haunted mansion.
Midnight Mansion features 32-bit graphics and a pro soundtrack. It also sports a tutorial and three levels of difficulty; the full game has over 750 rooms to explore. Blood effects can be turned off to make the game totally family-friendly, and a “suspend game” feature lets you stop and pick up where you left off later. System requirements call for Mac OS 9.1 or later, or Mac OS X v10.1.5 or later, G3 or faster, 15MB RAM, QuickTime 4.0 or later. You can download and try it for free, though the full game costs US$20 to unlock.