# ID the Mac/SNES game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2007, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-mac-snes-game/413803 "2007-07-31T10:44:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-mac-snes-game/413803/1 "2007-07-31T10:44:08Z")
A 3-D tank game, set in some sort of cybernetic world, appeared first on the Mac, then the SNES. I can’t remember the name, just a tonne of abuse for buying something so crap from school mates. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-mac-snes-game/413803/2 "2007-07-31T11:30:09Z")
IDed it myself, along with the people who cruelly mocked me for purchasing it 😛 [Spectre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_%28video_game%29) (which I enjoyed playing…) ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-mac-snes-game/413803/3 "2007-07-31T15:17:36Z")
Are you sure it’s not Battlezone-- vector graphics and such? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-mac-snes-game/413803/4 "2007-07-31T15:30:15Z")
Nope, Spectre. **Pushkin** ’s right. Battlezone was Spectre’s father, though. I had fun with Spectre, too. Outdated game now, though. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-mac-snes-game/413803/5 "2007-07-31T15:30:19Z")
[QUOTE=capybara] Are you sure it’s not Battlezone-- vector graphics and such? [/QUOTE] Spectre was “Battlezone Pro” - I have the original manual right here… ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-mac-snes-game/413803/6 "2007-07-31T15:41:30Z")
Oh man, I loved Spectre. I was working deadlines at a newspaper, which could get really stressful at times. You’d be head-down, grinding away at something like 2am, then there’d be the unmistakable little beepy fanfare that announced that someone had just started a networked game of Spectre. Screw the deadline. We’d drop everything to shoot co-workers for fifteen minutes or so. Wish I could find an OS X compatible version. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-mac-snes-game/413803/7 "2007-07-31T22:34:49Z")
Its Spectre all right, I remembered it by putting myself back in the SNES days at school, mid-90s and I’ve just spent £40 on Spectre when I could have had [Zombies Ate My Neighbours](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombies_Ate_My_Neighbours). I’m sort of trying to buy back my teens on Ebay 😛 ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-mac-snes-game/413803/8 "2007-08-01T03:18:42Z")
[QUOTE=Pushkin] Its Spectre all right, I remembered it by putting myself back in the SNES days at school, mid-90s and I’ve just spent £40 on Spectre when I could have had [Zombies Ate My Neighbours](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombies_Ate_My_Neighbours). I’m sort of trying to buy back my teens on Ebay 😛 [/QUOTE] I remember this game! I bought it for 3 bucks at Bud’s (RIP). My favorite was the laughing decoy. AH-hah-hah AH-hah-hah