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 November
• Crystal Caliburn - StarPlay Productions
• Darkseed - Cyberdreams
• Eric's Ultimate Solitaire - Delta Tao
• Gate - Seven Hills Software
• Holiday Lemmings - Psygnosis
• SimCity 2000 - Maxis
• Spin Doctor - Callisto
• Strat-o-Matic Baseball - Strat-o-Matic
• Sword of Sodan - Bethesda Softworks
• Valkyrie - GameTek
Summary of titles RELEASED in December
• American Civil War: Volume 3 - SSG
• The Chaos Continuum (CD-ROM) - CMC
• Dark Seed (CD-ROM) - Cyberdreams
• Deliverance - Inline Software
• El-Fish - Maxis
• MacAttack - GameTek
• The Magic Death (CD-ROM) - CMC
• Spectre VR - Velocity
Summary of titles RELEASED in January
• Jump Raven - CyberFlix
• Leisure Suit Larry 6 - Sierra
• Oxyd Magnum - Dongleware
• Populous - Electronic Arts
• U-Boat - Deadly Games
• The 7th Guest (CD-ROM) - Virgin Games
February
• 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)
• Awesome Adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo 3 (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods
(Next in series, entitled "The Hypnotic Harp")
• Awesome Adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo 4 (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods
(Next in series, entitled "The Cyberplasm Formula")
• 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)
• Empire Deluxe - New World Computing (A world conquest game)
• 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)
• The Classic 5 - MacPlay
• Empire Master 3.0 - Chris Elliot (Full color, totally configurable redo of the
classic strategy game)
• 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)
• The Lawnmower Man (CD-ROM) - The Sales Curve (A strategy/arcade game based
on the Stephen King movie of the same title)
• The Legend of Kyrandia (CD-ROM) - Virgin Games (Same as the disk version, but
with 85 megs of added speech)
• 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)
• 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)
• Quest for Glory 1 - Sierra (Fantasy/Role-playing in the Sierra style)
• Quest for Glory 4 - Sierra (The fourth installment of the adventure/RPG series.
Quest for Glory 2 & 3 were never made for the Mac)
• 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)
• Victory at Sea (Released)- Three-Sixty (World War II naval warfare game)
• Windstalker - Delta Tao
March
• Aliens (CD-ROM) - Dark Vision (Licensed by Fox and based on the movie of the
same title)
• 3-D Astro Chase - MacPlay (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. Will be the first game to use S.A.G.E.
or Software Accelerated Graphics Engine, that manipulates bit-mapped graphics
quickly in highly detailed and realistic environments)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
April
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• F117A Stealth Fighter - Microprose (Port is being done by the same team that
brought Civilization to the Mac)
• 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)
• Power Monger - Electronic Arts
• Power Poker - Electronic Arts (A poker game with Quicktime clips)
• Predator (CD-ROM) - Dark Vision (Licensed by Fox and will be released after Dark
Vision's Aliens game)
* 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)
• Spectre VR (CD-ROM) - 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. CD-ROM version enhanced)
• Viking: Fields of Conquest - Realism Entertainment (Wargame like Warlords for
color Macs only)
• Virtual Valerie 2 (CD-ROM) - Reactor (New graphics and sophisticated 3D
modeling, animation, digitized sound effects, and an original music score)
(April-May-June)
• 727 Flight & Systems Simulator - Robert Dorsett (System Sim plus 6-dof
flight model, world database, night view, 3D display)
* Dynasty League Baseball - Design Depot (A highly detailed strategic baseball
simulation)
• 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)
• Lemmings 2 - Psygnosis (Features 12 brand new tribes of Lemmings as well as
digitized Lemming voices)
• Links - 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 one of the best Mac
programmers in the market)
* Marathon - Bungie Software (Similar to Pathways into Darkness but will employ
more advanced technology)
• Prince of Persia 2 - Broderbund (Will have better graphics and more enemies)
• Return to Zork - Activision (Features spectacular graphics and animation. The
game will also include fascinating puzzles, a cast of Hollywood stars, and over an
hour of spoken dialogue and music)
• Return to Zork (CD-ROM) - Activision (Features spectacular graphics and
animation. The game will also include fascinating puzzles, a cast of Hollywood stars,
and over an hour of spoken dialogue and music. Enhanced for CD-ROM)
• Royal Flush - Amtex Software
• Warlords 2 - SSG (Much more advanced than the original Warlords, with more
monsters, changing map, and more units)
(July-August-September)
• The Labyrinth of Time (CD-ROM) - Electronic Arts (A fantasy adventure featuring
a series of graphic and logic puzzles that must be completed in order to solve the
entire game. Features over 250 megabytes of 3D-modeled and rendered graphics,
which provide a photorealistic gameplay environment, and it utilizes an intelligent
design point-and-click interface)
• Syndicate - Electronic Arts
• Squad Leader - Avalon Hill
* Rebel Assault (CD-ROM) - LucasArts (Highly popular game based on the Star Wars
universe with footage from the actual movies)
• 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)
* Worlds of Xeen (CD-ROM) - New World Computing (Huge RPG combining Might &
Magic 4 & 5 on one CD-ROM disc)
(October-November-December)
• Lands of Lore - Virgin Games/MacPlay (A huge, fantasy role-playing game)
• The Legend of Kyrandia 2 - Virgin Games/MacPlay
• Screaming Metal (CD-ROM) - Reactor
* Sea Wolf - Novalogic
• Strategic Conquest 4.0 - Delta Tao (Update to the classic wargame. Two new units,
new algorithms)
* Super Wing Commander - Origin (Space combat simulator based on the classic and
very popular Wing Commander series for the PC)
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)
