History VideoGame / Pararena

''Pararena'' was an early [[TheNineties nineties]] UsefulNotes/{{Macintosh}} game by John Calhoun. Its premise could be summed up as "one-on-one Film/{{Rollerball}} with {{Hover Board}}s, on a satellite dish [[RecycledInSpace In Space]]."

* JustForPun -- Mister Eaze and Miss Teak.

* NoOSHACompliance -- Averted. Your armor cushions you from all injury, the [[TeleportersAndTransporters transporter]] is flawless at recovering players flung into space, and there's a helpful "Caution!" sign above the ball return (even though it's impossible for anything to go wrong there in-game).

->'''''Ladies ... and ... gentlemen!   PARE ... A ... RENA!'''''
-->-- The announcer

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* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition -- Parodied by the "limited edition" splash screen in some of the freely distributed versions.

* GeniusBonus -- Earth's rival in the sport is "the central commerce colony of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Taygete in the Pleian cluster]]."

As to fan requests for an [[IOSGames iOS]] version, the WordOfGod is [[http://toucharcade.com/2011/09/26/john-calhouns-mac-classic-glider-coming-to-ios/#comment-320131850 "Maybe"]] (with an acknowledgment that ''Pararena'' would be perfect for tilt controls).

''Pararena'' was an early [[TheNineties nineties]] {{Macintosh}} game by John Calhoun. Its premise could be summed up as "one-on-one Film/{{Rollerball}} with {{Hover Board}}s, on a satellite dish [[RecycledInSpace In Space]]."

* MagnumOpusDissonance -- Calhoun once called this the game of which he was proudest, but estimated that it had one-tenth or less the popularity of his [[ToughActToFollow smash hit]] ''VideoGame/{{Glider}}'' due to its steeper learning curve. Still, every now and then "someone from Chicken, Alaska" would contact him to say that "''Pararena'' was the best game ever written."
* TheMerch -- [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyi/429682471/ "I don't know what this shirt is selling...but I'm buyin'!"]]
* {{No OSHA Compliance}} -- Averted. Your armor cushions you from all injury, the [[TeleportersAndTransporters transporter]] is flawless at recovering players flung into space, and there's a helpful "Caution!" sign above the ball return (even though it's impossible for anything to go wrong there in-game).

* GeniusBonus -- Earth's rival in the sport is "the central commerce colony of [[ClassicalMythology Taygete in the Pleian cluster]]."

Version 1.x (1990) was a {{Shareware}} title on Calhoun's "Soft Dorothy" label, with registration unlocking more features, opponents, and rulesets. Version 2.x (1992) was a [[UpdatedRerelease boxed retail product]] from Casady & Greene, adding color graphics, a tournament mode, and head-to-head network play at up to 60 frames per second. Rules, physics, options, AI, graphics, and sounds were tinkered with over multiple updates.

''Pararena'' was an early [[TheNineties nineties]] {{Macintosh}} game by John Calhoun. Its premise could be summed up as "one-on-one Film/{{Rollerball}} with {{Hover Board}}s, on a satellite dish [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]."

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY -- According to the online manual, it's "pair-uh-'''ree'''-nuh."

* MagnumOpusDissonance -- Calhoun once called this the game of which he was proudest, but estimated that it had one-tenth or less the popularity of his [[ToughActToFollow smash hit]] ''{{Glider}}'' due to its steeper learning curve. Still, every now and then "someone from Chicken, Alaska" would contact him to say that "''Pararena'' was the best game ever written."