Secret About Box

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Category	Arcade Game

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Secret About Box is a Breakout-style arcade game that originated as a hidden Easter egg inside Mac OS 7.5. According to its Macintosh Garden entry, this release was hacked out of the System 7.5 resources and repackaged in Desk Accessory format so it could be opened from the Apple menu on its own, without invoking the secret About box trigger.HeritageThe game is widely noted for its symbolic link back to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak's early careers at Atari, where Wozniak helped design the original arcade Breakout.Form factorDistributed as a Desk Accessory rather than a standalone application, so it lives in the Apple menu and opens in a small window over whatever you are working on.CompatibilityTargets System 7.0 through Mac OS 9. The Macintosh Garden listing notes that it cannot run in the background, so it pauses when another application is brought to the front.SubmissionThe Macintosh Garden entry was submitted by IIGS_User on December 28, 2017, and has accumulated a small thread of user comments since then.Why it mattersIt preserves a piece of Apple folklore - an in-OS toy that most users never knew existed - in a form that runs outside its original host system.