The Triple Play corporation of Lafayette, IN staked its name on an
unusual gimmick: selling its games three to a floppy. However, this
trio of board game adaptations - based on backgammon, Mastermind, and
mancala - failed to arouse much interest, leaving Game Disk Number One
for Macintosh as the only thing the company ever published.
A MacWorld ad offered "$4000 in prizes in the BACKGAMMON TRIPLE PLAY-
OFF," but every user-facing sign of the contest was scrubbed from the
Backgammon app on this bootleg diskette, possibly by the pirate who
cracked it. The full rules are found in the text document "<<Play-off"
in the "Files" folder, but it's unknown whether the twenty $200 prizes
were ever awarded.
> I haven't tried the other two games, but I was disappointed with
> Backgammon. Although it has some great features (you can undo one
> whole roll, ask for suggested moves, see all possible moves, have
> the last move marked, and save a game), I don't really call
> something "backgammon" unless it uses the doubling cube.
> \- Arthur Naiman, MacBook
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