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Slick Willie Iii 0.6

File slick-willie-iii-06.hqx
Size 1,172.0 KB
Version 0.6
Category Arcade Game
Mac OS System 7
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Slick Willie III is a 1998 Macintosh arcade shareware game by Brian Cyr and Jim Byer, released under the CyByrSoft label. A topical political parody, it casts President Bill Clinton against a fresh roster of caricatured enemies drawn from the era's headlines, with refreshed graphics over the previous Slick Willie II release.GameplayPlayed from a top-down perspective, the game has the player guiding Slick Willie through arcade-style action levels while fending off the latest batch of presidential adversaries. New background music tracks accompany the on-screen mayhem, lending the parody a more polished feel than its predecessors.TechnologyThe game is built on the Sprite Animation Toolkit (SAT) engine and reuses the codebase of HeartQuest as a starting point, a common pattern among late-1990s Mac shareware authors. The release was numbered version 0.6 by its creators.Politics as contentThe Slick Willie series belongs to a small wave of Clinton-era satire shareware on the Mac, where opponents and visual gags are pulled directly from the day's political news. Slick Willie III refreshes that material rather than reworking the underlying mechanics.System requirementsRuns on 68k Macs under System 7.0 through 7.6 or Mac OS 9, and requires Color QuickDraw with at least 256 colors available. The download weighs in at roughly 862 KB.

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