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The Mac Games Release List
by Paul Natsch & Tuncer Deniz

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.

* means new to list

Summary of titles Released in March
• 3-D Astro Chase - First Star/MacPlay
• Castles: Siege & Conquest - MacPlay
• Flying Nightmares - Domark
• PGA Tour Golf 2 - Electronic Arts
• Power Poker - Electronic Arts
• Quest for Glory 1 - Sierra
• Soft Kill (CD-ROM) - Compton's/Matrix

Summary of titles Released in April
• Critical Path (CD-ROM) - Media Vision
• F117A Stealth Fighter - Microprose
• Operation Crusader - Avalon Hill/Atomic
• Sim City 2000: Great Disasters - Maxis
• Sub Battle Simulator - Alliance
• Vegas Games - New World Computing

 Summary of titles Released in May
• Awesome Adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo 3 (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods
• Awesome Adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo 4 (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods
* Fury of the Furies - Kalisto/Atreid Concept
• Jeapordy: The Sports Edition - Gametek
• The Labyrinth of Time (CD-ROM) - Electronic Arts
* Nerodancer (CD-ROM) - Pixus Interactive (A high-tech interactive adventure
    in the first person point-of-view which utilizes state-of-the-art multimedia
    technology by merging live motion film and video with 3D computer animation,
    interactive game-play and original soundtrack.  This game is self-rated MA-18
    for Mature Audiences over the age of 18 due to nudity, and adult situations)
• Prince of Persia 2 - Broderbund
• Solitaire Antic - Masque Publishing
• Syndicate - Electronic Arts

June
• Aliens (CD-ROM) - Dark Vision (Licensed by Fox and based on the movie of the
   same title)
• 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)
• Carriers at War 2 - SSG (The second, much more advanced chapter of the WWII
   Naval Strategy game)
• Dracula Unleashed (CD-ROM) - Viacom New Media (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)
• Dragon's Lair (CD-ROM) - ReadySoft (A fantasy adventure where you become a
   valiant knight on a quest to rescue a fair princess from an evil dragon.  Based on the
   arcade classic)
• Empire Master 3.0 - Chris Elliot (Full color, totally configurable redo of the
   classic strategy game)
• Fun House - Amtex Software (More pinball from the guys who gave us 8 Ball
   Deluxe)
• Grandmaster Chess - Capstone
• Harpoon 2 - Three-Sixty Pacific (This sequel will incorporate new graphics, a
   better interface, and smarter artificial intelligence.  The first BattleSet will
   consist of 20 challenging scenarios focusing on contemporary hotspots around the
   world.  Other new features include live-action video sequences of weapon launches
   and target strikes, and two-player modem play)
• Hill Street Blues - Digitek (Play your favorite characters from the TV show)
• Hole-in-one Miniature Golf Deluxe - Digitek
• In Search of the Fabulous Fuzzbox (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A Macromind Director
   comic-book like CD-ROM game)
• Links Pro - Access (Golf game based on the extremely popular Links 386 for the
   PC. The Mac version will look a lot like the PC version, but it will contain a few
   improvements.  The game is being designed to take full advantage of the Mac
   interface and graphics and is being programmed by Mark Adams who is one of the
   best Mac programmers in the business)
• The Lost Admiral - QQP (Strategic war game that has been very popular on MS-DOS
   platforms)
• Necromancer (CD-ROM) - Reactor (A horror/adventure game)
• Pirates GOLD - Microprose (A greatly enhanced version of the original classic in
    full color)
• Power Monger - Electronic Arts
• Predator (CD-ROM) - Dark Vision (Licensed by Fox and will be released after
   Dark Vision's Aliens game)
• PT Boat Simulator - Alliance (A new updated version of Spectrum Holybyte's classic
   PT-109 game.  Will support B&W and 640 X 480 X 256 color graphics and the
   new Macintalk)
• Rebel Assault (CD-ROM) - LucasArts (Highly popular game based on the Star Wars
   universe with footage from the actual movies)
• Return to Zork (CD-ROM) - Activision
• Royal Flush - Amtex Software
* Theme Park - Electronic Arts (Create your own amusement park)
• 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)
• Virtual Valerie 2 (CD-ROM) - Reactor (New graphics and sophisticated 3D
   modeling, animation, digitized sound effects, and an original music score)
* Zig Zag - QQP

July
• Beyond Squad Leader - Avalon Hill/Atomic (A computerized version of Advanced
   Squad Leader with outstanding graphics)
• The Classic 5 - MacPlay
• Dynasty League Baseball - Design Depot (A highly detailed strategic baseball
   simulation)
• 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)
* International Tennis Open (CD-ROM) - Brainstorm Software (Includes many
    options like types of courts, practice rounds, and control difficulty levels.  Also
    included are actual live announcers giving the play by play of the match)
• Populous 2 - Electronic Arts
• Quantum Gate (CD-ROM) - Hyperbole Studios (Features VirtualCinema™, a 3-D
   navigable environment, to create the familiar look and pace of traditional movies.
   The game takes place in 2057 and Earth has only five years to live because of
   terrifying pollution. You star in the role of Drew Griffin, a medical student
   stationed on Planet AJ3905, a mining post with a mineral that can reverse Earth’s
   environmental death. Your job is to save Earth)
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (Same as the floppy version
   but all the text will be spoken using digitized speech of the original crew, including
   William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.  There is also a new ending)
* TacOps - Arsenal Publishing (A tactical level tank warfare game)
• Warlords 2 - SSG (Much more advanced than the original Warlords, with more
   monsters, changing map, and more units)

August
• 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)
* FlightStick Pro - CH Products
• Lode Runner - Dynamix (A modernized version of the classic game which will
    include network mode for two player competition, and a full level editor just like
    in the original Lode Runner)
• Marathon - Bungie Software (Similar to Pathways into Darkness but will employ
   more advanced technology)
• Mighty Mike with Automatic Recoil - Pangea Software (As Mighty Mike, the most
   powerful action figure money can buy, your goal is to rescue Fuzzy Bunnies who
   have somehow gone loose in a Toy store)
* Wolfenstein 3D - MacPlay (Sort of the prequel to the popular DOS game Doom.  The
    Mac version will contain all new graphics and music.  Will run in native mode on
    PowerMacs and also on 68k Macs)
* Wolfpack (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Novalogic (The player takes command of either a
    WWII submarine wolfpack or the surface fleet.  Historically accurate, your
    weapons and instruments are precisely keyed to the war year that you choose to
    play.  A full construction set is included to allow you to re-create actual battles.
    CD-ROM version enhanced.

September
* All-Pro Video Football (CD-ROM) - Accolade (Simulates an All-Star game utilizing
    the names and statistics of 51 real players from the NFLPA and the team logos of
    the American and National Football Conferences.  Features original video footage and
    color commentary from Al Michaels and Pat Haden)
• Cyberfist - Leviathan Media (An action fighting game similar to the popular
   Mortal Combat. Fifteen warriors await your control to enter the battle of the
   millenia as you clash in bloody hand to hand combat. Uses highly detailed rendered
   graphics and 16 bit sound)
• Dungeon Master 2 - MacPlay (Sequel to the highly popular Dungeon Master which
   was never made for the Mac.  The artwork is being completely redone for the Mac
    version of this 3D RPG)
* Gabriel Night (CD-ROM) - Sierra (CD-ROM version will feature voices from a
    fine cast of Hollywood actors including Tim Curry, Mark Hamill, Michael Dorn,
    Efram Zimbalist Jr, and Rocky Carol)
• 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)
* Police Quest 4 (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Enhanced for CD-ROM with full speech)
• Quest for Glory 4 - Sierra (The fourth installment of the adventure/RPG series.
   Quest for Glory 2 & 3 were never made for the Mac)
• 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)
• Robinson's Requiem - Readysoft (A heavily puzzle-orientated adventure game
   where the player takes on the role of a hotshot FBI agent sent on a suicide mission)
• Sorcerer (CD-ROM) - Softstream International (A medieval fantasy adventure
   game on CD-ROM. It features full-screen, 3D rendered graphics, a well-crafted
   plot and an original soundtrack by orchestral composer Eric Speier)
* Spaceward Ho! 4.0 - Delta Tao (Will contain all new graphics and network play
    over AOL)
• Zone - Leviathan Media (Touted as the first photo realistically, 3D rendered,
   networkable, action/strategy game for the Mac. In the game, you control of one of
   ten inter-galactic species as they fight in the arena of combat for galactic
   domination)

October
• 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)
• The Daedalus Encounter (CD-ROM) - Mechadeus/Media Vision (An
   action-adventure science fiction title starring Tia Carrere whose movie credits
   include Wayne's World and Rising Sun. The object of the game is to save the heroes
   on an alien spaceship.  The player interfaces with the actors using an on-screen
   mobile probe with extra-sensory capabilities.  The game evolves through multiple
   plot twists and endings, which are triggered by the different moves the player
    makes)
• Sid & Al's Incredible Toons - Dynamix (Essentially a wacked out version of The
   Incredible Machine)
• Strategic Conquest 4.0 - Delta Tao (Update to the classic wargame.  Two new units,
   new algorithms)
• Star Trek, Deep Space Nine: The Hunt (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Paramount Interactive
   An adventure game based on the TV series where players take the role of a
   Federation officer, Klingon, Ferengi, or Bajoran)

4th Quarter (October-November-December)
• The 11th Hour (CD-ROM) - Virgin Games (Sequel to The 7th Guest.  This two-CD
   game features over sixty minutes of live-action video, professional actors,
   movie-like plot twists, and stunning special effects)
• Air Warrior 2 -  Alliance (Will feature a stronger single player mode, support for
   more plane types and a vastly improved graphics model)
• Alone in the Dark - MacPlay (This outstanding looking horror/action-adventure
   game features amazing 3D graphics with up to nine different camera angles,
   depending on your location in the room)
* Castle of Dr. Brain 3 - Sierra
* Castle of Dr. Brain 3 (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Enhanced for CD-ROM with full speech)
• Flashback - MacPlay (Loosely based on Out of this World, but much more detailed)
* The Journeyman Project 2 (CD-ROM) - Presto Studios (This sequel promises
    better performance, better graphics, and much more)
• Lemmings 2 - Psygnosis (Features 12 brand new tribes of Lemmings as well as
   digitized Lemming voices)
* Mortality, Inc. (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An arcade horror title like no other)
* Phantasmagoria (CD-ROM) - Sierra (The terryfying story of a woman fighting for
    her life against the forces of evil.  Features an ultra-realistic 3-D rendered world
    in which characters have free movement.  Will come on 3 CD-ROMs)
* Planetfall - Activision/Infocom (The sequel to the original best selling adventure
    game. Will feature live actors and an animated Floyd, the robot, against
    computer-rendered 3D backrounds)
• Screaming Metal (CD-ROM) - Reactor (Sci-fi adventure game)
• Star Trek: Judgement Rites - MacPlay (Sequel to Star Trek's 25th Anniversary)
• Super Wing Commander - Origin (Space combat simulator based on the classic and
   very popular Wing Commander series for the PC.  Will be ported from the 3DO
   version)
* Ultima 8: Pagan (CD-ROM) - Origin (The evil Guardian transports you to a world
    already under his dominion.  You must confront alien realms and powerful new
    enemies in a battle without allies.  The game features smooth and lifelike animation
    at over 400 frames of art per character and ten times the art of any previous
    Ultima)
• Viper (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (Based on the Paramount television series of the
    same name)
• War Patrol -  Alliance (A WWII submarine simulator.  The initial BattleSet will be
    for the Allied Pacific campaign)
• Worlds of Xeen (CD-ROM) - New World Computing (Huge RPG combining Might &
   Magic 4 & 5 on one CD-ROM disc)

1st Quarter 1995
• Darkseed 2 (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Cyberdreams (Picks up where the first Dark
   Seed left off, and will involve even more diabolical machinations by the aliens of the
   “Dark World”. Also will feature more digitized audio and animations, and most
    importantly to game enthusiasts, an expanded story and improved puzzle
    structure)
* Dark Streets (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An electronic film noire)
* Dust (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An interactive tale of a lawless town in the wil west)
• The Hunters of Ralk (CD-ROM) - Cyberdreams (A RPG with an exciting new 3-D
    engine in an all new gaming universe from the mind of the acknowledged master in
    role-playing and fantasy invention, Gary Gygax, who is the legendary creator of
    Advanced Dungeons & Dragons)
• I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Cyberdreams (Takes the
   player on a mind puzzling journey into the belly of a super computer where one
   must experience a bizarre and ever changing world. The player lives through the
   experiences of five different characters to defeat an all-powerful super computer
   who has destroyed all of humanity)
* Titanic (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An adventure/thriller onboard the doomed ocean
    liner)


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)

Paul Natsch
America On-Line -PaulN24
Prodigy - JBFM05A