Lazarus Archive · LZ-06295

Emerald Arena: The Return

Meridian Software, 2002. Game for the Macintosh.

Description

A maze game for the Macintosh, released by Meridian Software in 2002 and never reissued.

Provenance

Deposited by Western Ranges Software Preservation Group, which had held it unread for years. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
2d313e7a25188d6ef60d0e7f1b43a6be89a08d4d0878bf0e306a890442fc25bd
Last verified
Sep 9, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MACOS-8 · lz-m68k core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-MACOS-8, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Macintosh.

Cite as: Meridian Software, Emerald Arena: The Return (2002). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06295.

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