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 April
• Anyone for Cards? (CD-ROM) - Capstone
• Are You Afraid Of The Dark?: The Tale Of Orpheo's Curse (CD-ROM) - Viacom New
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)
• Front Page Sports Football 1996 (CD-ROM) - Sierra
• Gabriel Knight 2 (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Sequel will use photorealistic graphics)
• 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)
* Heroes of Might & Magic (CD-ROM) - New World Computing
• IndyCar Racing 2- Papyrus (Hi-res graphics, better opponent AI, and other
NASCAR features)
• Iron Assault - Virgin Interactive
• Legend of Kyrandia 3 (CD-ROM) - Virgin Interactive
• Lion (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods (A sim that allows the player to experience life
as a Lion)
• 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)
• The Lost Eden - Virgin Interactive
• Multiplayer Civilization - Microprose
• 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)
• PlayMaker Baseball - PlayMaker Inc. (Will feature real major league teams, full
league support, tons of stats, 3-d animation and much more)
• 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)
• Scavenger - Virgin Interactive
• Star Trek: Generations (CD-ROM) - Spectrum Holobyte (An adventure game based
on the movie of the same name)
• 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)
• Tri-Tryst - Virgin Interactive
• 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)
• Star Trek TNG: A Final Unity (CD-ROM) - Spectrum Holobyte (A massive
adventure/rpg/space sim that uses the voices of the entire Next Generation cast)
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - MacPlay
• Stonekeep (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A huge 3D RPG)
• 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)
• Ultra 3D Pinball (CD-ROM) - Sierra
• Vikings - Microprose
* X-COM: UFO Defense - Microprose (Port of the immensely popular PC game in
which the player takes command of X-COM, a covert organization formed to
investigate and defeat the aliens that have begun to terrorize Earth. Controlling
groups of soldiers, spies, scientists and engineers, you must develop a strategy that
will ensure human survival. Give orders to soldiers as they explore alien bases and
battle the invaders)
• X-Wing (CD-ROM) - LucasArts (The epic Star Wars space flight simulator that is
a huge hit on the PC side. Enhanced for the Mac. PowerMac native and 68k)
• 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)
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• 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)
* Entomorph - Strategic Simulations (An action/adventure game where the player
portrays a hero whose job is to save an unexplored island overrun by bugs.
Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to undergo a gradual metamorphosis into an
insect)
• 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)
* Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion (CD-ROM) - LucasArts (A fairy tale
adventure for kids of all ages)
• NASCAR Racing - Papyrus
* Rebel Assault 2 (CD-ROM) - LucasArts (Command five different craft: X-wings,
Y-wings, B-wings, speeder bikes, and the Millennium Falcon)
• Ripper: A Cyberpunk Mystery (CD-ROM) - Take 2 Interactive (A sci-fi adventure
game)
* Wing Commander 4 (CD-ROM) - Origin (The next installment in the space flight
sim saga)
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)
