What is Stephen King's F13?

We started off skeptical. But then, as we customized our Mac into a virtual haunted house, this program grew on us. Stephen King’s F13 is an interactive CD that possesses your computer with freaky pictures, sounds, and games. Simplistic and somewhat overpriced, it nevertheless works — sort of.

Games range from the lame (passively dropping animals into a piranha tank) to the inexplicably amusing (chasing and smashing bugs with a rolled-up newspaper). You can choose from any number of screen savers, and spooky pictures (such as floating eyeballs). Sounds complete the ambiance. Admittedly, it’s fun opening up your email to the sound of ripping flesh.

The CD also features a full version of Kings’s novella “Everything’s Eternal,” which has never been distributed in book form — a bonus except that there’s no option to print out the text, so your poor eyes will have to resign to reading it onscreen. Overall, the CD is a bit thin on content and overpriced for what it offers, although Stephen King fanatics may still find it a scream.

Lu, Cathy. (June 2000). That's Infotainment! MacAddict. (pg. 80).

Download Stephen King's F13 for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.5 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver