Let's look at another Classic-era black-and-white Mac game icon. This one's from Bill Appleton's World Builder game-making tool (made in 1984, released in '85), which let you create your own adventure/RPG hybrids (or pure point-and-click adventures, if you had the patience to create all the hotspots). He himself made the commercial game Enchanted Scepters with it, but there were several popular shareware titles by other authors.

Anyway, what I love here is how the icon takes the design language of the Mac's own UI — that a hand with a pen or brush indicates an app used for creativity — and extends it to a third-party application meant for making media-rich Mac games. And the fact that it looks like the hand is marking out the world just perfectly fits both the name and the function of the software — the World Builder is used to build virtual worlds. I think it's a neat collision of ideas. #macicons