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 December
• Entomorph (CD-ROM) - Strategic Simulations
• Ice & Fire (CD-ROM) - GT Interactive
• In the 1st Degree (CD-ROM) - Broderbund
• Locus (CD-ROM) - GT Interactive
• Mission: Firestorm - MegaCorp International
• Rebel Assault 2 (CD-ROM) - LucasArts
• SkyBorg: Into the Vortex (CD-ROM) - SkyBox International
• Star Trek TNG: A Final Unity (CD-ROM) - Spectrum Holobyte
• System Shock (CD-ROM) - Origin
• Trophy Bass Fishing (CD-ROM) - Sierra
• Ultimate Doom (CD-ROM) - Id Software

Summary of titles Released in January 1996
• Legend of Kyrandia 3 (CD-ROM) - Virgin Interactive
• Odyssey: The Legend of Nemesis - MacSoft
• Outpost (CD-ROM) - Sierra
• Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles (CD-ROM) - Simon & Schuster
• U-Boat 2 - Deadly Games
• X-Wing (CD-ROM) - LucasArts

Summary of titles Released in February
• The Riddle of Master Lu (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods
• Angel Devoid (CD-ROM) - Mindscape

Summary of titles Released in March 
• Barrack  - Ambrosia Software
• Battle Beast (CD-ROM) - 7th Level
• Brain Dead 13 (CD-ROM) - ReadySoft
• The Dig (CD-ROM) - LucasArts
• Endorfun (CD-ROM) - Time Warner Interactive
• Full Tilt Pinball - Maxis
• Lion (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods
* LucasArts Archives Volume 1 (CD-ROM) - LucasArts
• The Lost Eden - Virgin Interactive
* Sim City 2000 Special Edition (CD-ROM) - Maxis
• Space Quest 6 (CD-ROM) - Sierra
• Spycraft (CD-ROM) - Activision
• Strategic Conquest 4.0 - Delta Tao
• Tang Chi (CD-ROM) - Capcom
• Tri-Tryst - Virgin Interactive

2nd Quarter
• Air Warrior 2 -  Alliance (Will feature a stronger single player mode, support for
   more plane types and a vastly improved graphics model)
• Alien Alliance (CD-ROM) - Virgin Games (A space flight sim in style of Wing Commander)
• Aliens (CD-ROM) - Mindscape (A graphic adventure game based on the movie of the same name)
• All-Star Baseball (CD-ROM) - Accolade
• Alone in the Dark 3 - I-Motion
• Atmosfear - Time Warner Interactive (A multiplayer game in which you collect magical keys on your way to the center of a mystical environment)
• Avara - Ambrosia Software (A 3D Mechwarrior-like game that is networkable)
• Bad Mojo (CD-ROM) - Pulse Entertainment (A unique graphic adventure game where the player assumes the role of a man transformed into a cockroach.  The player must search for a way to get back to human form in environment rendered in stunning detail.  From the creators of Iron Helix)
• Baldies - Gametek (A Lemmings-like game in which the player commands an entire race of Baldies as they fight for control of multiple mini-worlds and more than 100 levels of gameplay.  Features include multiplayer option, advanced enemy AI, and full motion clay animated cut scenes)
• The Basement - Time Warner Interactive (A campy Doom-style 3D game which has players battling bugs in a B-grade horror movie)
• Beat the House (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A casino gambling simulation)
• Blackthorne (CD-ROM & Floppy) - MacPlay (An action game featuring advanced rotoscoped graphics, mind-twisting puzzles, hundreds of enemies and an arsenal of hi-tech weaponry)
• Bridge Deluxe II with Omar Sharif - MacPlay
• Castles: Siege & Conquest (CD-ROM) - MacPlay
• Chaos Control (CD-ROM) - I-Motion (A 3D action game where the player is transported to the future where you must battle a vicious extraterrestrial intelligence for control of the earth. You must liberate Manhattan from swarms of invading aliens, neutralize the core of an alien virtual reality computer and destroy the alien fleet)
• Chaos Overlords (CD-ROM) - New World Computing (An action/strategy game in which the player hires and deploys 70 different gangs in order to conquer the future)
• Chessmaster 5000 - Mindscape (This next version adds “intelligent assistant” monitors to track players’ moves and provide feedback and advice)
• The Classic 5 - MacPlay
• Clue (CD-ROM) - Virgin Interactive
• Cyberia (CD-ROM) - MacPlay 
* Dame Was Loaded (CD-ROM) - Phillips Interactive (The world's first fully-interactive film noir detective adventure with incredible full-screen video graphics, 30 cunning characters in a deviously twisting non-linear plot)
• 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)
• Descent: Levels of the World (CD-ROM) - MacPlay
• Devo Presents Adventures of the Smart Patrol (CD-ROM) - Inscape (a surrealistic social satire featuring a mix of live-action and animation. Created by DEVO founders Gerald V Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh, this fantastically demented adventure goes for interactivity what the legendary group did for music. It pits forces of good, The Smart Patrol, a young musically inclined group of Devolutionary rebels, against the mega-corporate forces of evil)
• Drug Wars (CD-ROM) - American Laser Games (An action/adventure game with full-motion video that involves hunting down international drug cartels)
• Elk Moon Murders (CD-ROM) - Activision
• Entry Denied (CD-ROM) - Novell (In this adventure game, the player assumes the role of an investigative reporter searching out the truth behind a top-secret government installation in the Nevada desert, known as  Area 51, which is rumored to house a wealth of hidden knowledge about UFOs and extraterrestrials)
• Escape Velocity - Ambrosia Software (A huge shareware space game combining arcade action, strategy, adventure, and role-playing)
• FLIGHT Unlimited - Looking Glass Technologies (An extremely realistic looking
flight sim that is designed to help the user learn how to fly through 25 interactive
lessons.  After players get their feet wet, pilots can test their aerobatic skills in
competitions where judges score aerobatic performances and award prize money to
players.  The money can then be used to customize their own planes. PowerMac only)
• Fox Hunt (CD-ROM) - Capcom (A spy thriller which contains over 3 hours of photo-realistic, full- motion video.  The rich, flowing plot is structured along the lines of a motion picture. There are a variety of unique scenes to explore, clues to find and figure out, 20 action challenges, and 10 different endings) 
• Gabriel Knight 2 (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Sequel will use photorealistic graphics)
• Galapagos - Anark (A 3-d, texture mapped action/puzzle game which incorporates artificial intelligence)
• Gearheads (CD-ROM) - Phillips Interactive
• Heart of Darkness - Virgin Interactive (An action/adventure game which is being developed by the same team that produced Out of This World and Flashback)
• Hellraiser (CD-ROM) - Magnet Interactive (An interactive CD-ROM game based on  Clive Baker's Hellraiser movie series.  The game will offer players "a horrifying  cyber world of fast-paced chases, deadly  traps, clever opponents and a catacomb maze."  The disc will offer 30 hours of playing time)
• Hexen (CD-ROM) - GT Interactive (A Doom-like game in a fantasy setting)
• Horror Tour - Feoh-my, Inc. (An adventure game set in a medieval castle)
• 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)
• Icebreaker (CD-ROM) - Magnet Interactive
• 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)
• IndyCar Racing 2- Papyrus (15 sanctioned tracks, real cars and drivers based on the 1995 season)
• In Search of the Fabulous Fuzzbox (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A Macromind Director
   comic-book like CD-ROM game)
• Ipso Facto v1.0 - Playmaker
• Iron Assault - Virgin Interactive
• Lords of Midnight (CD-ROM) - Domark (A huge RPG with with full animation on
real-time, 3-D texture-mapped backgrounds.  Control one character at a time, or
up to four simultaneously.  Fight entire wars from a first-person perspective on
enormous fractally-generated landscapes in real time.  Four methods of travel,
including dragonback.  Fully animated 3-D characters.  Non-linear storyline.
Advanced artificial intelligence to endow computer-controlled characters with
life-like, independent decision-making abilities)
• Mad Dog McCree 2 (CD-ROM) - American Laser Games (Live interactive shooting game set in the old west.  Sequel to Mad Dog McCree)
• Maximum Surge (CD-ROM) - Digital Pictures (You're a trained mercenary, hunting down a dictator who's populating the world with androids.  Variety of weapons, multiple levels, different scenarios and environments)
• Mega Rave - Velocity (An interactive rave party simulation game based on the underground dance party phenomena)
• Mind Games - New World Computing
• Missions of the Reliant II - Playmaker
• Monopoly (CD-ROM) - Westwood (Will allow users to play by themselves or with other digital capitalists via the Internet.  Features more than 800 animated sequences)   
• Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion (CD-ROM) - LucasArts (A fairy tale adventure for kids of all ages)
• Mummy (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A graphic adventure from the creators of Frankenstein) 
• Mummy Trouble - Strata Interactive (An interactive adventure for children of all ages)
• Necromancer (CD-ROM) - Reactor
• The Orion Conspiracy (CD-ROM) - Domark (A sci-fi adventure/rpg.  PowerMac native) 
• Panzers East - Arsenal Games (A WWII Eastern Front tactical wargame based on Arsenal's award-winning TacOps game featuring 256-color graphics, AI for both sides, and a more realistic terrain model)
• Pax Imperia 2 - Blizzard Entertainment (A space strategy simulator that casts each player as the leader of a galactic empire on the verge of expansion.  Will include a multi-player option that allows up to 16 human or computer opponents to compete)
• Phantasmagoria (CD-ROM) (Released) - 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 7 CD-ROMs)
• Planetfall (CD-ROM) - 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)
• Primal Rage (CD-ROM) - Time Warner Interactive (A one or two-player fighting game with a distinct twist: You control dinosaurs instead of humans.  They spit acid and fire, and do round house kicks, to name a few of their abilities)
• Prisoner of Ice - I-Motion (An adventure game)
• Psychic Detective (CD-ROM) - Electronic Arts (An interactive mystery)
• Quarterback Attack (CD-ROM) - Digital Pictures
• Rivers of Dawn (CD-ROM) - Virgin Interactive (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)
• Scavenger - Virgin Interactive
• Screaming Metal (CD-ROM) - Reactor 
• Secrets of Luxor (CD-ROM) (Released) - Strata (A Myst-like adventure game)
• Shadows of Cairn (CD-ROM) - Masque Publishing
• Shivers (CD-ROM) - Sierra
• SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest - Maxis (Working with a team of specialists, each with varying expertise, players take up the challenges of cleaning up offshore oil-tanker leaks, opposing illegal drug traffickers, rebuilding after a devastating earthquake, creating a wildlife refuge, and more)
* Skat 3.0 - Fa. Rasche (Released) (The latest update of the popular Skat card game program for the Macintosh. Improved playing routines, skill rating, and manual card distributions)
• The Skins Game at Bighorn - MacPlay
• Skullcracker (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An arcade horror title like no other)
• Solitaire Deluxe - MacPlay (Enjoy 24 of the world's most exciting solitaire games all in one game package)
• Sorcerer (CD-ROM) - Hopkins Technology, Inc. (A medieval fantasy adventure
game on CD-ROM. It features full-screen, 3D 16-bit rendered graphics, a well-crafted plot and an original soundtrack by orchestral composer Eric Speier)
• Star Trek, Deep Space Nine: Harbinger (CD-ROM) - Viacom New Media/Simon & Schuster
• Star Trek Klingon (CD-ROM) - Simon & Schuster (An interactive simulation-adventure program that allows users to explore Klingon culture, lore and ritual.  The software features full-motion  interactive video with integrated voice recognition, allowing players to "talk" with  on-screen characters)
• Tank Commander - Domark (Will feature spectacular texture mapping graphics as well as full motion video.  Game features include the ability to control the gun turret, which rotates 360%, independent of the direction in which the tank is moving.  A multi-player game which will allow players to hook up over serial link, modem link, and AppleTalk.  The game will likely be a PowerMac only game)
• Terracide (CD-ROM) - Domark (The second title in Domark’s Sci-Sim line of space combat  adventures)
• Tommy: An Interactive Adventure (CD-ROM) - MacPlay
• Transport Tycoon - Microprose (A fascinating business strategy game in which the player buys, builds, and controls transportation networks)
• Under a Killing Moon (CD-ROM) - Access (A 4CD adventure game in which the player assumes the role of detective Tex Murphy in the year 2042.  The game offers full-motion video and complete freedom of movement)
* Vikings (CD-ROM) (Released) - GT Interactive
• Virtual Chess (CD-ROM) - I-Motion (Features a library of over 46,000 classic games and is a superb learning tool for beginners and a challenging opponent for game masters.  The game has a multi-axis engine enabling you to zoom in and out and to rotate the board to any angle to view the pieces)
• Voyeur 2 9CD-ROM) - Phillips Interactive (Improved graphics and gameplay)
• Wanderer I: Cult of Misery v1.0 - Playmaker
• War Patrol -  Alliance (A WWII submarine simulator.  The initial BattleSet will be
for the Allied Pacific campaign)
• Waterworld - MacPlay (A strategic simulation based on the Kevin Costner movie of the same name)
• Wing Commander 4 (CD-ROM) - Origin (The next installment in the space flight sim saga)
• Wizardry GOLD (CD-ROM) - SirTech (A much enhanced version of the award-winning Crusaders of the Dark Savant, the excellent 3D rpg)
* Zeram: Ultimate Alien (CD-ROM) - WEA

2nd Quarter-3rd Quarter
• 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)
• African Adventure (CD-ROM) - SunStar (A sophisticated, interactive novel, using an exclusive AI engine.  Your partner is murdered and one of six passengers aboard the steam cruiser is the  culprit)
• Catalyst (CD-ROM) - Deilution (A first person 3D action game)
• Close Combat - Microsoft/Atomic (A historically accurate World War II strategy game that features a psychological behavior model, continuous real-time action, rendered and animated vehicles, soldiers and weapons effects, plus head-to-head play)
• Congo (CD-ROM) - Viacom New Media (Adventure game based on the movie of the same name)
• Cyberia 2 (CD-ROM) - Virgin Games (Sequel to the popular action game with a revolutionary new Combat Engine.  Next generation motion capture technology.  Challenging logic puzzles with multiple degrees of difficulty.  Randomization of enemies for all action scenes means enhanced repeat playability.  Over 1 gigabyte of action-adventure gaming)
• Descent 2 (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (Sequel to the popular 3D texture-mapped action game)  
• Dynasty League Baseball - Design Depot (A highly detailed strategic baseball
simulation)
• Empire 2 - New World Computing
• Heroes of Might & Magic (CD-ROM) - New World Computing
• Kingdom: The Far Reaches (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A Dragon's Lair type action game)
• Knight's Chase - I-Motion (An adventure game)
• Mortal Kombat 3 - GT Interactive
• Over the Reich (CD-ROM) - Avalon Hill (A strategic RPG of air combat over Germany during the latter part of WWII)
* Pandora Directive (CD-ROM) - Access (Sequel to Under a Killing Moon)
• PlayMaker Baseball - PlayMaker (Will feature real major league teams, full league support, tons of stats, 3-d animation and much more)
• Playmaker Basketball - Playmaker
• Police Quest SWAT (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Unlike previous Police Quest games SWAT
will include more than one scenario)
• Shockwave Assault 2 (CD-ROM) - Electronic Arts
• The Space Bar (CD-ROM) - Rocket Science Games (Designed by Infocom genius Steve Meretzky, The Space Bar is a science-fiction mystery adventure with the usual touch of Meretzky humor)
• Star Control 3 - Accolade
• Star Trek: Judgement Rites - MacPlay (Sequel to Star Trek's 25th Anniversary)
* Threshold (CD-ROM) - Mindscape
• Top Gun: Fire at Will! - Spectrum Holobyte (A flight sim based on the movie of the same name and designed with the casual flyer in mind)

Further out in Time
• Alone in the Dark 2 (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (Enhanced for CD-ROM and includes AitD 1)
• Apache (CD-ROM) - Interactive Magic (A helicopter simulation)
• Big Red Racing (CD-ROM) - Domark (A racing sim where the player has control over 12 funky  racing vehicles, including backhoes, hovercraft, lunar buggies and jeeps.  Choose from dirt, water, sci-fi, snow, quarry, city and desert environments.  Features split screen, modem and network play.  Complete MTV-style CD soundtrack and intro with original music by Hangnail)
• Kingdom O' Magic (CD-ROM) - Sales Curve Interactive (A graphic adventure game with an  oddball sense of humor)
• Troy Aikman NFL Football (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Tradewest/Williams Entertainment 
 • Virtual Pool (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (Four great pool games played by professional rules: 8-ball, 9-ball, Straight Pool, Rotation, plus practice mode and trick shots.  Realistic physics/geometry.Full simulation of all physical actions including friction, speed, collision, and roll.  True computational ball tracking)
• Blood & Magic (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (The first real time strategy game from Interplay's  Advanced Dungeons & Dragons line.  In the game, the player portrays a powerful Mage that can summon legendary figures from the Forgotten Realms world to aid in his conquests.  The player must be aware and must contend with rivals that possess guile and wrath equal to his/her own)
• Dark Streets (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An electronic film noire)
• The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall (CD-ROM) - Bethesda Softworks (A single-character Ultima Underworld-style role playing game which uses a fast graphics engine that manipulates a true 3D environment.  Sequel to the award-winning Elder Scrolls: Arena)
• Nemesis: A Wizardry Adventure (CD-ROM) - SirTech
• Obsidian (CD-ROM) - Rocket Science Games (An adventure game which is set in a dream world filled with surrealistic 3D graphics)
• Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (CD-ROM) - Activision
• Ripper: A Cyberpunk Mystery (CD-ROM) - Take 2 Interactive (A sci-fi adventure game)
• Faery Tale Adventure 2:  Halls of the Dead (CD-ROM) - Trimark Interactive (A huge RPG which utilizes the Dreamers Guild's proprietary isometric tiling technology to create a dynamic Super-VGA simulation of a medieval fantasy world.  The player is free to roam about this realm, interact with all sorts of original people and monsters, and experience many different adventures. The game allows each player the freedom to create his own story within the framework of the fantasy realm.  Rather than being forced down one linear path, players will be able to seek out the parts of the Faery Tale universe which most appeal to them)
• Flying Nightmares 2 - Domark (Players will be able to control two of the military’s most feared attack vehicles: the Harrier “Jump Jet” and the Cobra Attack Helicopter.  PowerMac only)
• Star Trek: Generations (CD-ROM) - Spectrum Holobyte (An adventure game based on the movie of the same name)
• Zork Nemesis (CD-ROM) - Activision 

And Beyond
• Blade Runner (CD-ROM) - Virgin Interactive (Players will be able to enter into a richly detailed environment set in the year 2019 to follow the adventures of a licensed-to-kill policeman hired to track down and destroy a group of intelligent robots who have hijacked a space shuttle and returned to earth.  Based on the classic movie of the same name)
• Command and Conquer (CD-ROM) - Westwood (A real-time strategic warfare sim)
• Confirmed Kill - Domark (A World War II flight simulation that allows up to 500 people to  participate in furious dog-fighting action on the Internet)
• Duke Nukem (CD-ROM) - 3D Realms/Apogee
• Hang Time Basketball (CD-ROM) - GT Interactive
• MechWarrior 2 (CD-ROM) - Activision (Based on the popular FASA Battletech universe, MechWarrior 2 combines sophisticated simulation gameplay with vivid 3D graphics thrusting the player into an explosive world of sight, sound, and actioh) 
• Mortal Combat 2 - MacPlay
• Myst 2 (CD-ROM) - Broderbund (Sequel to one of the best selling games of all-time)
• NBA Jam: Tournament Edition - MacPlay
• Open Ice Hockey (CD-ROM) - GT Interactive
• Pacific Tide: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire (CD-ROM) - Arsenal Publishing (A strategic and operational-level simulation of the Pacific Theater of Operations from 1941 to 1945 during World War II, beginning on December 7, 1941 right after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The player will have total control of air, ground, and naval operations within a richly detailed model of the actual geo-political environment which faced U.S. and Japanese commanders over 50 years ago)
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - MacPlay
• Stonekeep (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A huge 3D RPG)
• Titanic (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (Adventure game that takes place on the Titanic on the same day of its tragic sinking.  The game will feature an exact "virtual" reproduction of the real Titanic. Players will be able to walk through and explore every single room, cabin, and deck of this "virtual" Titanic while trying to prevent one of the worst disasters in history) 
• USCF Chess - MacPlay
• Warcraft 2 (CD-ROM) - Blizzard 
• Zone Raiders - Virgin Interactive (A fast-paced, real-time driving a combat game that takes place in a 3-D, texture graphics environment.  Features network and modem capability)

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
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Internet - pauln@gate.net