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 August
• Crystal Crazy - Casady & Greene
• King Arthur's Magic Castle - Orange Cherry New Media
• Oh No More Lemmings! - Psygnosis
• Pathways Into Darkness - Bungie Software
• Rex Nebular - Microprose
• Spaceway 2000 - Casady & Greene
• Star Trek's 25th Anniversary - MacPlay
• Strip Poker Professional - Artworx
• Sword-Juno-Gold - Three-Sixty
• Take-A-Break Crosswords - Dynamix
• Uninvited - ICOM
• Word Connection - Action Software
Summary of titles RELEASED in September
• 727 Flight Simulator - Robert Dorsett (Systems Release only; see November also)
• Hill Street Blues - Digitek (Play your favorite characters from the TV show)
• Jeopordy - GameTek
• The Legend of Kyrandia (CD-ROM) - Virgin Games (Same as the disk version, but
with 85 megs of added speech)
• MacAttack - GameTek (A 3-D shoot-’em-up game much in the same tradition of the
old coin-op game Tempest. The game will feature 30 levels of game play, five
different skill levels, and support for any size monitor)
• The Magic Death (CD-ROM) - CMC (A murder/mystery type game with multiple
endings and different killers. Uses full-motion video, sound, animation)
• TaskMaker 2.0 (Released) - Storm Impact (A MAJOR upgrade to XOR's 1989
TaskMaker. A huge, 256-color or b/w RPG with over one-hundred million pixels
of dungeons and villages to explore)
• Urban Commando - RJ Best (Lets players blow off steam by blowing up vile
creatures such as: Devious Lawyers, Unforgiving Bill Collectors, Evil Metermaids,
Piggish Roommates, Grubbing TV Evangelists, and more, with bazookas, grenades,
and flamethrowers. Features full-color graphics, sound, and animation)
• Windstalker - Delta Tao
November
• 727 Flight & Systems Simulator - Robert Dorsett (System sim [see September] plus
6 dof flight model, world navaid database, night view, 3D display)
• The C.H.A.O.S. Continuum (CD-ROM) - CMC (Incorporates images and special effects
created in SGI workstations, using the most powerful 3D and modeling software on
the market)
• Dracula Unleashed (CD-ROM) - ICOM Simulations (In this game, players are
transported back to Victorian England where they will travel through London,
gathering information, objects, and valuable contacts. The player's five-day
mission is to identify and destroy Dracula before he destroys them. Dracula
Unleashed features 135 scenes with multiple endings, and a total of 96 minutes of
color motion video)
• Hole-in-one Miniature Golf Deluxe - Digitek
• NFL Challenge: Premium Edition - XOR (Color with more features)
• Royal Flush - Amtex Software (More pinball from the guys who gave us 8 Ball
Deluxe)
• SimCity 2000 - Maxis
• Valkyrie - GameTek (A helicopter simulation designed by Donald Hill Jr., who is
previously known for P-51 Mustang. Includes ten flight missions and features
seven selectable viewing angles, a full size cockpit, and full-screen display)
• Victory at Sea - Three-Sixty (World War II naval warfare game)
December
• Aliens - Dark Vision (Licensed by Fox and rumored to be released by the end of
1993)
• Alone in the Dark - I-Motion (This outstanding looking horror/action-adventure
game features amazing 3D graphics with up to nine different camera angles.
• Crusaders of the Dark Savant - Sir-Tech (Takes full advantage of Mac's
capabilities. 8-bit color)
• Deliverance - Inline Software (A serious fighting game with 256 colors, amazing
full screen scrolling speed, and 8 levels of non-stop action)
• El-fish - Maxis (Breed your own fish)
• Leisure Suit Larry 6 - Sierra (The next game in Al Lowe's "Adult" orientated
adventure series following the adventures of Larry Laffer)
• Oxyd 2 - Inline (Commercial version of the popular shareware game)
• PGA Tour Golf 2 - Electronic Arts (Reported to include a better looking interface,
four different golfers to choose from, a “skins” game, new courses, speed
improvements, and 13” monitor support)
• Police Quest 4 - Sierra (The fourth installment of the realistic Police Quest series.
Police Quest 2 & 3 were never made for the Mac. Will use photorealistic graphics)
• Star Trek's 25th Anniversary (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (Graphic role-playing
adventure with your favorite Star Trek characters from the old Trek. Same as disk
version, but with added speech supplied by William Shatner and Leonard 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, digitized sound effects, and an original music score)
4th Quarter (October-November-December)
• 3D Astro Chase - First Star
• 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: Siege & Conquest - MacPlay (A game of medieval diplomacy, treachery, and
power. Will combine the original PC version of Castles with the upgraded strategic
elements of Castles II)
• Crosswords 1 - Dynamix
• Crosswords 2 - Dynamix
• Empire Master 3.0 - Chris Elliot (Full color, totally configurable redo of the
classic strategy game)
• F-117/A Stealth Fighter - Microprose (Port is being done by the same team that
brought Civilization to the Mac)
• Gabriel Night - Sierra (An interactive movie about a writer in New Orleans
working on a voodoo novel. He is plagued by a series of nightmares and begins living
out the dreams, which turn out to be part of a 300-year-old family curse. The
game will feature a fine cast of Hollywood actors including Tim Curry, Mark
Hamill, Michael Dorn, Efram Zimbalist Jr, and Rocky Carol)
• Hoyle's Classic - Sierra
• 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)
• Quest for Glory 1 - Sierra (Fantasy/Role-playing in the Sierra style)
• Spectre VR - Velocity (This upgrade challenges you with a new generation of
enemies and weapon systems and gives you the ability to fly. Also will include the
new VRchitect, which allows you to customize or create Spectre matrixes)
• 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)
• 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)
• Flashback - MacPlay (Loosely based on Out of this World, but much more detailed)
• Fun House - Amtex Software (More pinball from the guys who gave us 8 Ball
Deluxe)
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (CD-ROM) - LucasArts (Full speech support)
• Lands of Lore - Virgin Games/MacPlay (A huge, fantasy role-playing game)
• The Legend of Kyrandia 2 - Virgin Games/MacPlay
• Populous 1 - Electronic Arts
• Populous 2 - Electronic Arts
• Power Monger - Electronic Arts
• 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)
• 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)
• Screaming Metal (CD-ROM) - Reactor
• Showdown - Electronic Arts (A poker game)
• Spaceship Warlock 2 (CD-ROM) - Reactor
• Stalingrad - Three-Sixty (Next battleset in the V for Victory series)
• Syndicate - Electronic Arts
• Viking: Fields of Conquest - Realism Entertainment (Wargame like Warlords for
color Macs only)
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 Email 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)
