Contributors: Tuncer Deniz, Babak Gohari, Michael Rutman
This is the most comprehensive and informative release list for the Macintosh gaming community. Take the release dates with an ion of salt because they are VERY tentative! In fact, some of these titles may never see daylight.
Summary of titles released in June
• Decisive Battles of the American Civil War Vol. 3 - SSG
• G-NETIX - ISM
• The Iron Helix (CD-ROM) - Drew Pictures (Explore a derelict spaceship with a
probe and try to prevent a war)
• Microcosm 2 - Softstream
• Operation Intercept - Softstream
• Super Maze Wars - Calisto (Spectre-like network game)
Summary of titles released in July
• Carriers at War - SSG (Naval simulation that takes full advantage of the
Mac's capabilities)
• DragonBlade - RJ Best (A traditional RPG which takes players into eerie dungeons on a
Quest to free an imprisoned Wizard. With original graphics created by a San Francisco
artist, sound effects which will keep you on the edge of your seat, and enhanced
animation)
• Dragon's Lair 3 - ReadySoft
• Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist - Sierra (From Al Lowe, creator of Leisure Suit
Larry)
• Hellcab (CD-ROM) (Released) - Warner New Media (An adventure in which you must
travel through time and save your soul from Satan)
• Zone of Avoidance (Released) - Casady & Greene (Defend a 2001-like space station
from an alien attack)
August
• 727 Flight Simulator (Released Phase I) - Robert Dorsett (A full-function,
professional-level flight and systems simulator with state-of-the-art realism and flight
dynamics, worldwide navaid and approach systems database)
• Awesome Adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo 2 (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods (Next
in series, entitled "The Dinosaur's Egg")
• Awesome Adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo 3 (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods (Next
in series, entitled "The Hypnotic Harp")
• Bridge Deluxe with Omar Sharif - MacPlay
• The Classic 5 - MacPlay
• Crystal Crazy (Released) - Casady & Greene (Totally new Crystal Quest type game)
• Darkseed - Cyberdreams (Sci-fi/Horror adventure with artwork from H.R. Giger)
• Dragon Boy - Leviathan Corporation (An action/adventure game featuring a
fire-spitting boy)
• Eric's Ultimate Solitaire - Delta Tao
• The Even More Incredible Machine - Dynamix (Thinking game like a computer erector
set)
• F/A -18 Hornet - Graphic Simulations (Highly anticipated flight simulator from the makers of
with your favorite Star Trek characters from the old Trek. Same as disk version, but
with added speech supplied by William Shatner and Leanord Nimoy)
• Strategic Conquest 4.0 - Delta Tao (Update to the classic wargame. Two new units, new
algorithms)
• Third Reich - SSG (WWII strategy game)
• Virtual Valerie 2 (CD-ROM) - Reactor (New graphics and sophisticated 3D modeling,
animation, digitzed sound effects, and an original music score)
4th Quarter
• Air Warrior - GameTek/Kesmai Corporation (Will support stand-alone play,
head-to-head and the GEnie multi-player option. Includes all new ground graphics and
3D shading models)
• Carriers at War 2 - SSG (The second, much more advanced chapter of the WWII Naval
Strategy game)
• Castles 2 - MacPlay (The original Castles was cancelled for the Mac, but Castles 2 is
much improved and will feature a great Mac interface)
• Empire Master 3.0 - Chris Elliot (Full color, totally configurable redo of the classic
strategy game)
• F117A Stealth Fighter - Microprose (Port is being done by the same team that brought
Civilization to the Mac)
• In Search of the Fabulous Fuzzbox (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A Macromind Director
comic-book like CD-ROM game)
• Jump Raven (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (Combat Flight Simulator in a futuristic setting
that uses tons of weapons, full dither, smoke screens, flaming shrapnel, etc.)
• The Lost Admiral - OOP (Strategic war game that is very popular on MS-DOS
platforms right now)
• MacArthur's War - SSG (Island hopping in the Pacific)
• MYST - Broderbund (A non-linear HC-based full animation game. It has awesome
graphics and sounds. In Beta test)
• Rivers of Dawn (CD-ROM) - New World Computing (a Multimedia RPG title that gives
the player FULL control over full motion, 30fps, video characters. Rod Roddenberry,
the late Gene Roddenberry's son, has been tapped to play the lead role in Rivers of
Dawn. This game is also said to contain a high level of playability not found in other
CD-ROM games. Acclaimed artist Pepe Moreno of Hell Cab fame will design the
graphics for this game)
• Total Distortion (CD-ROM) - Pop Rocket (Billed as the first "Music Video Adventure
Game" in which the player travels to the "Distortion Dimension" in search of fresh
material for music videos. Mingle with virtual rock stars and make your own music
videos. The game is filled with interactive 3D animation, challenging games, talking
characters, and creative activities)
• U-233 - Deadly Games (Type VII German U-boat in the North Atlantic)
• Valkyrie - GameTek (A helicopter simulation designed by Donald Hill Jr., who is
previously known for P-51 Mustang)
• Warlords 2 - SSG (Much more advanced than the original Warlords, with more
monsters, changing map, and more units)
1st Quarter 1994 (January-February-March)
• A-10 Attack - ParSoft Publishing (Designed by Eric Parker who designed the
award-winning Hellcats over the Pacific. A-10 is supposedly used by real simulation
pilots and still runs on a Mac at super high fps. It is rumored that this flight sim
contains some really advanced breakthroughs never seen before)
• CyberRace - Cyberdreams (Revolutionary 3D combat and racing sim that uses
ultra-fast voxel landscapes, ray-traced racing vehicles that you can customize,
cinematic 256-color, between race sequences, hundreds of plot variations, digitized
actors and dialogue, stunning sound effects, and a outstanding musical score by a Emmy
award-winning composer)
• Empire Deluxe - New World Computing (A world conquest game)
• Fun House - Amtex Software (More pinball from the guys who gave us 8 Ball Deluxe)
• Might & Magic: Arena - New World Computing (Described as a cross between
Wolfenstein 3D and Ultima, Arena will reportably feature continuous motion graphics
and a scenario editing feature)
• Predator - Dark Vision (Licensed by Fox and will be released after Dark Vision's
Aliens game)
• Prince of Persia 2 - Broderbund (Will have better graphics and more enemies)
• Return of the Phantom - Microprose (Graphic adventure)
• Screaming Metal (CD-ROM) - Reactor
• Spaceship Warlock 2 (CD-ROM) - Reactor
• Stalingrad - Three-Sixty (Next battleset in the V for Victory series)
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 rumors. (Corrections also appreciated)
