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
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.)
