The Mac Games Release List
by Paul Natsch
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 July
• Carriers at War (Released) - SSG 
• DragonBlade (Released) - RJ Best 
• Dragon's Lair 3 (Released) - ReadySoft
• Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (Released) - Sierra 
• Hell Cab (CD-ROM) (Released) - Warner New Media 
• Zone of Avoidance (Released) - Casady & Greene

Summary of titles released in August
• Crystal Crazy (Released) - Casady & Greene
• King Arthur's Magic Castle (CD-ROM) (Released)
• Oh No More Lemmings! (Released) - Psygnosis
• Pathways Into Darkness (Released 8/2/93) - Bungie Software
• Rex Nebular (Released) - Microprose
• Spaceway 2000 - (Released) Casady & Greene
• Star Trek's 25th Anniversary (Released) - MacPlay
• Strip Poker Professional (Released) - Artworx
• Sword-Juno-Gold (Released) - Three-Sixty
• Take-A-Break Crosswords (Released) - Dynamix
• Uninvited (Released) - ICOM
• Word Connection (Released) - Action Software 

September
• 727 Flight Simulator (Released) - 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) 
• The 7th Guest (CD-ROM) - Virgin Games (This HUGE game involves solving puzzles in
   each of the 22 fully-realized 3D rooms in a haunted mansion. Shipping on 2 CD-ROMs,
   this interactive drama will feature over 90 minutes of full-motion video, synthesized
   music, and speech)
• Awesome Adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo 2 (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods
• Awesome Adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo 3 (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods
• Awesome Adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo 4 (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods
• Big Business (Released 9/9/93)- Digitek
• Bridge Deluxe with Omar Sharif - MacPlay 
• The Chaos Continuum (Released)(CD-ROM) - CMC (Incorporates images and special
   effects created in SGI workstations, using the most powerful 3D and modeling software
   on the market)
• Chuck Yeager's Air Combat - Electronic Arts (Redesigned specifically for the Mac, this
   flight sim is loaded with features and lets you experience air combat in three
   historical periods, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, and fly 50 historically accurate
   missions)
• The Classic 5 - MacPlay
• 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 
• Gate - Seven Hills Software (A gauntlet-type adventure featuring 256 colors, smooth
   animation, and great sounds)
• The Legend of Kyrandia (CD-ROM) - Virgin Games (Same as the disk version, but with
   85 megs of added speech)
• The Magic Death (CD-ROM) - CMC (A murder/mystery type game with multiple
   endings and different killers.  Uses full-motion video, sound, animation)
• Virtual Valerie: Director's Cut (CD-ROM) - Reactor (Virtual Valerie 1 with added
   video never seen before)
• Windstalker - Delta Tao

October
• 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)
• Chessmaster 3000 - Software Toolworks (Direct port from the DOS version with
   some possible added features)
• Day of the Tentacle - LucasArts (Graphic cartoonish adventure. Sequel to Maniac
   Mansion)
• FireFall - Inline Software (A modern-day implementation of the classic game,
   Centipede. The game features exciting gameplay, a raucous soundtrack, and custom 3-D
   rendered graphics)
• Hill Street Blues - Digitek (Play your favorite characters from the TV show)
• Jeopardy  - GameTek
• 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)
• MYST (CD-ROM) - Broderbund (A surrealistic CD-ROM adventure game in which you
   are magically transported to an alternate reality by reading an old, battered book that
   you’ve picked up.   Features stunning 3-D photo-surreallistic graphics, non-linear
   game play, and original soundtrack, video, and animation)
• Victory at Sea - Three-Sixty (World War II naval warfare game)

November
• 727 Flight & Systems Simulator - Robert Dorsett (System Sim plus 6 dof flight
   model, world database, night view, 3D display)
• Dracula Unleashed (CD-ROM) - ICOM Simulations 
• Hole-in-one Miniature Golf Deluxe - Digitek
• Royal Flush - Amtex Software (More pinball from the guys who gave us 8 Ball
   Deluxe) 
• 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)

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, depending on
   your location in the room)
• Crusaders of the Dark Savant - Sir-Tech (Takes full advantage of Mac's capabilities.
   8-bit color)
• 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 possibly 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)
• SimCity 2000 - Maxis
• 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, digitzed sound effects, and an original music score)

4th Quarter 1993
• 3-D Astro Chase - First Star (A space combat game in which the player, whose
   mission is to save Earth from destruction, takes control of a spaceship equipped with
   powerful static solar plasma beams, cosmic energy weapons, energy seeking missiles,
   space decoy mines, and warp speed.
• Air Warrior - GameTek/Kesmai Corporation (Will support standalone 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)
• 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) 
• 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)
• 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 
• U-Boat - 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
• 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
• 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)
• 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

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.)

Paul Natsch
America Online -PaulN24
Prodigy - JBFM05A