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  The Mac Games Release List 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 September • Gabriel Knight - Sierra • Glider Pro - Casady & Greene • Lode Runner: The Legend Returns - Dynamix • Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (CD-ROM) - MacPlay • TacOps - Arsenal Publishing • Theme Park (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Electronic Arts • Troubled Souls - Varcon Systems • Wolfenstein 3D: First Encounter - MacPlay Summary of Titles Released in October • Arc of Doom (CD-ROM) - SunStar Publishing • Breakthru - Spectrum Holobyte • Citadel of the Dead - MicroLeague • Harpoon Classic (CD-ROM) - Alliance • Inherit the Earth: Orb Quest (CD-ROM) - New World Computing • Night Trap (CD-ROM) - Digital Pictures • Out of the Sun - Domark * Sim Town (CD-ROM) - Maxis • Star Trek Interactive Technical Manual (CD-ROM) - Simon & Schuster • Trivial Pursuit (CD-ROM) - Virgin Interactive • Virtual Vegas: Volume 1 (CD-ROM) - Virtual Vegas Inc. • Wolfenstein 3D: Second Encounter - MacPlay November • Alone in the Dark (Released) - 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) • Avatar: Principles of Conflict (CD-ROM) - Changeling Software (A collection of five chess variations intended for the chess enthusiast who wants to explore variations; and the chess innocent who wants to experience chess from new and exciting perspectives. PowerMac and 68k versions) • 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) * Bridge Baron (Released) - MicroLeague • The Classic 5 - MacPlay • Corpse Killer (CD-ROM) - Digital Pictures • Dark Castle 1994 (Released) - Delta Tao (An updated, colorized version of this classic arcade/adventure game) * Digital Arcade (Released) - Digital Eclipse (A collection of three classic coin-operated arcade games reproduced to play exactly like the originals on your Mac. The games are Robotron, Defender, and Joust) • Dragon's Lair (CD-ROM) (Released) - ReadySoft • Flashback (Released) - MacPlay (Loosely based on Out of this World, but much more detailed) • Flight Commander 2 (Released) - Avalon Hill (In this new version of Flight Commander, also by Charles Moylan, there are many new challenges that make the player use the brain, not the joystick. Play against a tough computer opponent or against a live opponent in person or by E-Mail) • Grandmaster Chess - Capstone * MacArthur's War (Released) - SSG • Mad Dog McCree (CD-ROM) - American Laser Games (Interactive shooting game with real live motion picture action. Mad Dog and his men have kidnapped the town's Mayor and his daughter. To save the town, you will be challenged by a saloon full of outlaws, a hair-raising bank robbery, gunfighters, a slew of Old West ambushes, and Mad Dog himself) • Microsoft Arcade (Released) - Microsoft (A collection of classic arcade games) • Mighty Mike with Automatic Recoil - Pangea Software (As Mighty Mike, the most powerful action figure money can buy, your goal is to rescue Fuzzy Bunnies who have somehow gone loose in a Toy store) * National Lampoon's Blind Date (CD-ROM) - Trimark (A humorous CDROMance adventure in which the player experiences the angst of a first date. You must say all the right things to "further" the date. Sandi is the object of your affection, and in order to win her, you must choose the right responses. If you do, you may go all the way in this full motion video challenge) • Onslaught - Frontal Assaultware (A strategic wargame that puts you in command of a nation on the brink of war. Networkable, modem play, and randomly generated maps are some of the highlights. 68k and Power Mac native) • The Pagemaster (CD-ROM) - Turner Interactive (An animated adventure game based on an upcoming Macaulay Culkin movie of the same name) • 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) • Quantum Gate (CD-ROM) - Hyperbole Studios (Features VirtualCinema™, a 3-D navigable environment, to create the familiar look and pace of traditional movies. The game takes place in 2057 and Earth has only five years to live because of terrifying pollution. You star in the role of Drew Griffin, a medical student stationed on Planet AJ3905, a mining post with a mineral that can reverse Earth’s environmental death. Your job is to save Earth) * Risk Deluxe (Released) - MacPlay * Space Ace (CD-ROM) - ReadySoft (Enhanced for CD-ROM) • Sim Farm (Released) - Maxis * Sim Tower (Released) - Maxis • Tom Landry Football Deluxe (Released) - Merit • Tubular Worlds (Released) - Dongleware • Virtual Valerie 2 (CD-ROM) (Released) - Reactor (New graphics and sophisticated 3D modeling, animation, digitized sound effects, and an original music score) • Voyeur (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A political thriller) • Warlords 2 (Released) - SSG (Much more advanced than the original Warlords, with more monsters, changing map, and more units) • Wolfpack (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Novalogic (The player takes command of either a WWII submarine wolfpack or the surface fleet. Historically accurate, your weapons and instruments are precisely keyed to the war year that you choose to play. A full construction set is included to allow you to re-create actual battles. CD-ROM version enhanced) • Worlds of Xeen (CD-ROM) - New World Computing (Huge RPG combining Might & Magic 4 & 5 on one CD-ROM disc. PowerMac native and 68k) • Zig Zag - QQP December • 2044: The Overthrow (CD-ROM) - Spiral Matrix (A futuristic adventure game) • 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) • 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) • Assault on Everest (CD-ROM) - Take 2 Interactive (An interactive edutainment-oriented voyage) • Bureau 13 (CD-ROM) - Take 2 Interactive (An interactive graphic adventure) • Castle of Dr. Brain 3 - Sierra • Castle of Dr. Brain 3 (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Enhanced for CD-ROM with full speech) • Clue (CD-ROM) - Virgin Interactive • The Daedalus Encounter (CD-ROM) - Mechadeus/Media Vision (An action-adventure science fiction title starring Tia Carrere whose movie credits include Wayne's World and Rising Sun. The object of the game is to save the heroes on an alien spaceship. The player interfaces with the actors using an on-screen mobile probe with extra-sensory capabilities. The game evolves through multiple plot twists and endings, which are triggered by the different moves the player makes) • Dungeon Master 2 - MacPlay (Sequel to the highly popular Dungeon Master which was never made for the Mac. The artwork is being completely redone for the Mac version of this 3D RPG) • F/A-18 Hornet 2.0 - Graphic Simulations (Upgrade will run native on PowerMacs and add other minor improvements) • F/A-18 Hornet Mission Disk: Crisis in Korea - Graphic Simulations • In Search of the Fabulous Fuzzbox (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A Macromind Director comic-book like CD-ROM game) • International Tennis Open (CD-ROM) - Brainstorm Software (Includes many options like types of courts, practice rounds, and control difficulty levels. Also included are actual live announcers giving the play by play of the match) • King's Quest 7 (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Features hi-res graphics and Disney animation) • Leisure Suit Larry 6 (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Enhanced for CD-ROM with full speech) • Lemmings 2 - Psygnosis (Features 12 brand new tribes of Lemmings as well as digitized Lemming voices) • Lode Runner: The Legend Returns (CD-ROM) - Dynamix (Enhanced for CD-ROM) • Loony Labyrinth Pinball - StarPlay Productions (Based on an original design featuring a wacky maze and pursuit of the Loony Stone. Players are challenged by three flippers, three 3D ramps, and three multi-ball play. The design is enhanced with the intricate graphics and wide array of spectacular sound effects) • Marathon - Bungie Software (Similar to Doom on the PC but will employ more advanced technology including network play and 16-bit graphics) • Master of Orion - Take 2 Interactive (A strategic space sim that puts players to the task of creating an empire that will stretch across the entire galaxy) • NFL Challenge Premium Edition - XOR (A major update to the original in full color) • 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 4 - Sierra (The fourth installment of the adventure/RPG series. Quest for Glory 2 & 3 were never made for the Mac) • Robinson's Requiem - Readysoft (A heavily puzzle-orientated adventure game where the player takes on the role of a hotshot FBI agent sent on a suicide mission) • Royal Flush - Amtex Software * Sargon 5 - Activision • Sid & Al's Incredible Toons - Dynamix (Essentially a wacked out version of The Incredible Machine) • Spaceward Ho! 4.0 - Delta Tao (Will contain all new graphics and network play over AOL) • Strategic Conquest 4.0 - Delta Tao (Update to the classic wargame. Two new units, new algorithms) * Troy Aikman NFL Football (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Tradewest/Williams Entertainment (Strategy/action football sim which offers players coaching, one-player, or two-player games. Features an extensive playbook which includes Troy Aikman's favorite plays, straight from the Cowboys' playbook. Offers stats, names, and jersey numbers of every NFL player. Also is the only pro football sim that contains the new two-point conversion. Other highlights include a general manager's screen for building custom franchises and animated full-color graphics. CD-ROM version contains live-action video segments. Licensed by the NFL) • War Patrol - Alliance (A WWII submarine simulator. The initial BattleSet will be for the Allied Pacific campaign) • Wolfenstein 3D: Third Encounter - MacPlay (Contains 60 more levels) January 1995 • 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) • Air Warrior 2 - Alliance (Will feature a stronger single player mode, support for more plane types and a vastly improved graphics model) • Blood Net - Take 2 Interactive (A Cyberpunk Vampire game. Recruit cyberpunks, range rangers, mercenaries, and hackers to aid in your fight against the vampires. Immerse yourself in the bizarre virtual reality of cyberspace, where anything is possible. Experience a breakthrough in role-playing with astonishing 3-D Hallucinographic art) • Crime Patrol (CD-ROM) - American Laser Games (A multi-level live-action thriller which challenges the player to progress through police ranks, battling a variety of criminal elements) • Dark Streets (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An electronic film noire) • Doom - Id Software (The best-selling 3D texture-mapped action game on the PC) • Doom 2 - Id Software (Sequel to Doom with more levels and more enemies) • The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time (CD-ROM) - Presto Studios (This sequel promises live-action video, advanced sound, better speed, and graphics effects) • Phantasmagoria (CD-ROM) - 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 3 CD-ROMs) • Police Quest 4 (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Enhanced for CD-ROM with full speech) • 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) * Shadows of Cairn (CD-ROM) - Masque Publishing (Action/adventure in which the player assumes the role of a young theif named Quinn. Quinn is going to be set up to take the fall for a murder that he will not commit. The player must guide Quinn through slimy sewers, a trap filled dungeon, an evil wizard's tower, and a monster filled hedge maze in order to save himself and the Duke. 68k and Power Mac native versions) • Skullcracker (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An arcade horror title like no other) • Sorcerer (CD-ROM) - Softstream International (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: Judgement Rites - MacPlay (Sequel to Star Trek's 25th Anniversary) • 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) February * D-Day 1944 - Arsenal Publishing (A division-level strategy game of the invasion and the following battles in France including Operation Cobra) * Burn Cycle (CD-ROM) - Philips Media Games (A futuristic challenge that combines film drama and action/adventure gaming into an interactive program) • 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. Probably PowerMac only) • HELL: A Cyberpunk Thriller (CD-ROM) - Take 2 Interactive (A multimedia adventure game that will feature top Hollywood actors such as Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Geoffrey Holder, and Stephanie Seymour) March • Colonization - Microprose (Focuses on a single era in history from 1500-1800—the discovery, exploration, and colonization of the New World. Players control either English, French, Dutch, or Spanish colonists in the New World. The goal of the game is to oversee economic, military, and political growth as you strive to establish independence from the mother country while competing with other colonies for control of the New World) • Dynasty League Baseball - Design Depot (A highly detailed strategic baseball simulation) • Gabriel Knight (CD-ROM) - Sierra (CD-ROM version will feature voices from a fine cast of Hollywood actors including Tim Curry, Mark Hamill, Michael Dorn, Efram Zimbalist Jr, and Rocky Carol) • Harpoon 2 - Capstone/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) • Star Trek, Deep Space Nine: The Hunt (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Paramount Interactive An adventure game based on the TV series where players take the role of a Federation officer, Klingon, Ferengi, or Bajoran) • Super Wing Commander (CD-ROM) - Origin (Space combat simulator based on the classic and very popular Wing Commander series for the PC. Will be ported from the 3DO version) • X - First Star/Imagine It Inc. (Described as the first Macintosh, real time, 3D, fully interactive, science fiction graphic adventure to take place in “walk, ride, o fly anywhere” texture mapped environments. The graphic engine, which builds on the technology used in First Star’s early 1994 release of Astro Chase 3D, will allow players to travel and explore whole cities, underwater caverns, pulsating arteries of a giant beast, corridors of a future orbiting space station....basically anything players can imagine) 2nd Quarter • Beyond Squad Leader - Avalon Hill/Atomic (A computerized version of Advanced Squad Leader with outstanding graphics) • 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) • Dust (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An interactive tale of a lawless town in the wild west) • 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) • 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) • 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) * 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) • Terminus (CD-ROM) - Reactor (An innovative science fiction interactive movie. Advanced graphics, 3D animation, rich characterizations and a sweeping music score combine to transport the player to Terminus Island, a forbidden zone of mad metal monsters and ravenous necro-zombies) • Titanic (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An adventure/thriller onboard the doomed ocean liner) 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 America On-Line -PaulN24 Prodigy - JBFM05A 
