Maui Wowee - 1.0

35 years ago, Maui Waui would have been featured in a Cheech and Chong smoker. This dog downloads from a whizbang site that launches ads in your face (http://www.macgamestore.com/detail.php?ProductID=428), costs $20 (less a penny), occupies 12.1 Mb unzipped, comes as a DEMO not true shareware and gives you 60 minutes of demonstration play, most of which is occupied by screens that say "Loading" or "Help" or "Levels", puts "MauiWowee.app" on your menubar, grabs your screen and changes resolutions for you, and asks for your name. I entered "Stupid" because I downloaded and launched this pup without knowing its antecedents. The program dutifully displayed "Aloha and Welcome, Stupid" at the bottom of the screen. It comes with bouncy, cheerful music that is well, bouncy. And cheerful. And you can turn it off, although that will eat into your 55 minutes of remaining game play (by now) as you figure out how to do that chore. The actual "game" is a bit counterintuitive, despite the instructions. While you can click and drag a square to another location, the program then launches a complicated redraw that bears no resemblance to what you expected to happen and may fire off three or four "matches". Oh, yes, forgot to mention: Besides being un-Mac-like, with no nods whatever to HIG, the program is sloooooow. Enjoy. The game itelf looks interesting, but considering the quality of other similar kids' games that can be delivered at glowing speed and raging Technicolor on Mac OS X Panther, this one has some serious growing up to do. Tikis, yeah, it's got tikis. And tedium.