The coolest part of this game is when you get a tinfoil upgraded, and you can confidently glide through the house without fear of impact. Glider PRO sets the player off as a paper airplane gliding through some labyrinthine mid-90s household. There are mild puzzle elements throughout involving circuit breakers and light switches, as well as navigational challenges. Keep an eye out for candles as well, you can use their thermal updrafts to get a bit of a rise. Even in the modern age, I'm not sure this in-depth paper airplane based gameplay has been surpassed.

I don't know if you can beat this game. I played it as a child and I have since moved on from Mac OS circa 1990. I'm not even sure if I would want to beat it if I could; there's something appealing to these seemingly endless games we keep stored in our childhood memories. Challenges that then seemed insurmountable might be trivial now, but then the reward will be proportionally so diminished. If you happen to have a working copy of Mac OS9 I think you can do worse than playing this game, but also, maybe just buy a new computer.

Reviewed on Apr 15, 2022


2 Comments


1 year ago

nice review streamo!

1 year ago

that's right