Well, this was back before Macs really worked properly. You needed much more command line knowledge than anyone in our family had; sure, it had a CD-ROM drive and could do fancy things (I remember playing with a voice-recording application and learning how to set the system alert sounds to clips of me saying dumb stuff), but none of the software that you actually wanted to use worked because it was for Windows, none of the Mac software worked beyond the basics because you needed to know the ins and outs of how to set it up, occasionally it would do stupid things like crash because one program somewhere was set to colour-mode when the OS was running in black-and-white mode (for some reason), and then you'd get that lovely helpful error message with the icon that looked like a bomb, which is great for calming people down and encouraging them to think problems through rationally.

I remember Darwin's Dilemma being a fun little puzzle game, though. Though even that would occasionally generate unwinnable levels through the curse of the RNGenie.

D.F.