![]() ![]() Every match is tense, and yet there’s also something quite comforting about the way the immersive perspective wraps you in its hold.Īside from the title theme and a jaunty jingle played in between rounds, Shufflepuck Café is music-free, leaving you only with the ambient sound effects of the bar. As you play, all other concerns fade, and time stands still. You should feel afraid most of the alien patrons are degenerate thugs or powerful gang lords, but all that seems to matter to them is shufflepuck. You’re in a seedy bar on some planet, god knows where in the galaxy. Sit at a desk, let the glow of the cathode ray tube wash over you, and as the blackness of the room blends with that of the screen, you’re no longer at that desk. But the effect is a potent one nonetheless. Maybe it’s just an absence of detail, an attempt to conserve the power of the hardware, or a holdover from the game’s monochrome Macintosh roots, perhaps. There’s quite a lot of black in Shufflepuck Café. No, this is best experienced on original hardware, through a CRT monitor and in a dimly lit, if not entirely dark room. You can’t get the most from this game by playing on a crystal clear display, in a window, with your favourite collection of GIFs and a folder of tax returns beaming back at you. I find Shufflepuck Café is best played now, exactly as it was when I first discovered it on a mate’s Amiga 500 back in the Nineties. Every element of the game works to suture the player into its narrow slice of alternative reality so well that all else momentarily ceases to exist. ![]() But Shufflepuck Café’s great illusion isn’t just a matter of control. Presented from a first person perspective, your only avatar is an air hockey puck, controlled with absolute one-to-one precision simply by moving the mouse around. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.On a purely mechanical level, Shufflepuck Café is so simple that it’s genius. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine. ![]() There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic.
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