The Mac Games Release List
by Paul Natsch

This is the most comprehensive and informative release list for the Macintosh gaming community. Take the release dates with a grain of salt because they are VERY tentative!  In fact, some of these titles may never see the light of day.                                           

Summary of titles released in February
• Trump Castle 2 - Capstone

Summary of titles released in March
• Eight Ball Deluxe - Amtex Software (From the people who gave us Tristan, but much
   better then Tristan)
• Super Mines - Callisto Corp. (Commercial minesweeper type game)
• Market Garden - Three-Sixty (Next battleset in the V for Victory series)
• Spectre Supreme - Velocity (Much improved over original with new enemies and more
   options)

April
• Cerulean - Casady & Greene
• The Iron Helix  (CD-ROM) - Drew Pictures (Explore a derelect spaceship with a
   probe and try to prevent a war)
• Crystal Crazy - Casady & Greene (Totally new Crystal Quest type game)
• Lunicus (Released 4/11/93) (CD-ROM) - Cybersoft (Interactive cruise through a
   3D world to save the future.  Virtual reality environment, original soundtrack, and
   talking Cyber Puppets.  From Dark Castle creator Bill Appleton)
• Space Madness - High Risk Ventures (Defend the universe from invading aliens)
• Harpoon Designer Series 2 - Three-Sixty (Includes 50 page data annex and Official
   Guide to Harpoon Tactics)
• Uninvited - ICOM (Will now run on the latest Macs under System 7)
• Carriers at War - SSG (Naval simulation that will take full advantage of the Mac's
   capabilities)
• Rex Nebular - Microprose (Sci-fi graphic adventure with humor)
• King's Quest 6 (Released 4/12/93) - Sierra (Next in the popular series. Rumored to
   be 18+ megs in size with improved Mac game engine and support for Quicktime)
• Virtual Valerie: Director's Cut (CD-ROM) - Reactor (Virtual Valerie 1 with added
   video never seen before)
• Wilderness - Avalon Hill (Sequel to Legend of the Lost Realm)
• Awesome Adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo 2 (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods (Next
   in series, entitled "The Dinosaur's Egg")
• Sherlock Holmes 3 (CD-ROM) - ICOM Simulations
• Soul Gunner (CD-ROM) - Subaru (Virtual Reality-like tank combat simulation)
• Inspector Gadget - Azeroth
• Caesar's Palace - Virgin Mastertronic
• Dragon's Lair 3 - ReadySoft
• The Classic 5 - MacPlay
• 1942: "The Battle of Midway" (CD-ROM) -- Figment Interactive Design (Strategy
   wargame using Quicktime movies)
• MacWars (CDROM) - Figment Interactive Design (Incorporates Quicktime movies)
• Hole-in-One add-on disks - Digitek
• G-netix - ISM
• Hill Street Blues - Digitek (Play your favorite characters from the TV show)
• Sargon V - Spinnaker 
• Falcon 2.5 (B&W) - Spectrum Holybyte
• Screen Antics - Dynamix/Tunnel Productions
• Omar Sharif On Bridge - MacPlay

May
• AD&D Unlimited Adventures - Strategic Simulations (Create your own AD&D
   adventures in the Gold Box format)
• Space Quest 5 - Sierra On-Line
• Casserine Pass - Three-Sixty (Next battleset in the V for Victory series)
• Darkseed - Cyberdreams (Sci-fi/Horror adventure with artwork from H.R Giger)
• Castles 2 - MacPlay (The original Castles was cancelled for the Mac, but Castles 2 is
   much improved and will feature a great Mac interface)
• Total Distortion (CD-ROM) - Pop Rocket (Billed as a Rock & Roll graphic adventure
   game)

June
• F/A-18 Hornet - Graphic Simulations
• The GGA Tour (CD-ROM) - ICOM Simulations (A golf game that uses wacky locations
   and scenes for each hole)
• NFL Challenge: Premium Edition - XOR
• The Lost Admiral - OOP (Strategic war game that is very popular on MS-DOS
   platforms right now)
• Route 66 - Casady & Greene (Spyhunter type game)
• Virtual Valerie 2 (CD-ROM) - Reactor
• Better Dead (CD-ROM) - ARTSector One Inc. (Enter a strange, ominous, breathtaking
   photorealistic 3D world where you seek out and implement humankinds one last, 
   desperate hope for survival)
• Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist - Sierra (From Al Lowe, creator of Leisure Suit
   Larry)

July
• Star Trek 25th Anniversary - MacPlay (Graphic role-playing adventure with your
   favorite Star Trek characters from the old Trek)
• Hellcab (CD-ROM) - Warner New Media (An adventure in which you must travel
   through time and save your soul from Satan) 

August
• Strategic Conquest 4.0- Delta Tao 
• Eric's Ultimate Solitaire - Delta Tao 
• Windstalker - Delta Tao 

September
• Chessmaster 3000 - Software Toolworks 
• Crusaders of the Dark Savant - Sir-Tech (Takes full advantage of Mac's capabilities.
   8-bit color) 
• F-117A Stealth Fighter - Microprose (Port is being done by the same team that brought
   Civilization to the Mac) 

4th Qtr and Beyond
• Spaceship Warlock 2 (CD-ROM) - Reactor (January 1994)
• Screaming Metal (CD-ROM) - Reactor (October 1993)
• In Search of the Fabulous Fuzzbox (CD-ROM) - MacPlay
• Day of the Tentacle - LucasArts (Graphic cartoonish adventure. Sequel to Maniac
   Mansion)
• SimCity Supreme - Maxis (complete rewrite)
• Decisive Battles of the American Civil War Vol. 3 - SSG
• Hole-in-one Miniature Golf Deluxe - Digitek
• Stalingrad - Three-Sixty (Next battleset in the V for Victory series)
• Citadel 2 - Postcraft International (This sequel is suppose to be in color)
• Fleet Commander - Internecine (Sub simulation)
• Nobunaga's Revenge - Koel
• Uncharted Waters - Koel
• Dark Sun: Shattered Lands - Strategic Simulations (Completely new Mac engine that
   takes full advantage of the Mac) (November)
• Might & Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen - New World Computing (Late '93/Early '94)
• SimCity 2000 - Maxis 
• Sim Farm - Maxis
• El-fish - Maxis
• U-233 - Deadly Games (Type VII German U-boat in the North Atlantic) (Fall)
• Return of the Phantom - Microprose (Graphic adventure)
• DragonSphere - Microprose (Graphic adventure)
• Prince of Persia 2 - Broderbund (PC version first, then Mac version) (Late
   '93/Early '94)
• King's Quest 6 (CD-ROM) - Sierra (The multimedia version with full voice support
   done by real actors) (No date set) 
• Pirates GOLD - Microprose (Under consideration for the Mac by Microprose)

Keep in mind that if you're in the industry or "in-the-know" about certain upcoming releases, YOU can contribute GREATLY to this listing.  Please E - mail me at the addresses below if you have additional information that you see may be useful to this list.  I'm basically looking for HARD FACTs or GOOD rumor. (Corrections also appreciated)

Paul Natsch
America Online -PaulN24
Prodigy - JBFM05A