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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 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) - Maxix
• 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

Summary of titles Released in November
• Alone in the Dark - MacPlay
• Bridge Baron - MicroLeague
• Corpse Killer (CD-ROM) - Digital Pictures
• Dark Castle 1994 - Delta Tao
• Digital Arcade - Digital Eclipse
• Dragon's Lair (CD-ROM) - ReadySoft
• Flight Commander 2 - Avalon Hill
* Legions - Mindscape
• MacArthur's War - SSG
• Microsoft Arcade - Microsoft
• National Lampoon's Blind Date (CD-ROM) - Trimark
• Risk Deluxe - MacPlay
• Sargon 5 - Activision
• Sim Farm - Maxis
• Sim Tower - Maxis
* Stalingrad - Avalon Hill
• Tom Landry Football Deluxe - Merit
• Tubular Worlds - Dongleware
• Virtual Valerie 2 (CD-ROM) - Reactor
• Warlords 2 - SSG

Summary of titles Released in December
• Flashback - MacPlay
* Gingerbread Man (CD-ROM) - ION
* Head Candy (CD-ROM) - ION
• King's Quest 7 (CD-ROM) - Sierra
• Leisure Suit Larry 6 (CD-ROM) - Sierra
• Loony Labyrinth Pinball - StarPlay Productions
• Mad Dog McCree (CD-ROM) - American Laser Games
• Marathon - Bungie Software
• Quantum Gate (CD-ROM) - Hyperbole Studios
• Sid & Al's Incredible Toons - Dynamix
• Wolfpack (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Novalogic

January 1995
• 2044: The Overthrow (CD-ROM) - Spiral Matrix (A futuristic adventure game)
• 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)
• Air Warrior 2 -  Alliance (Will feature a stronger single player mode, support for
   more plane types and a vastly improved graphics model)
• Assault on Everest (CD-ROM) - Take 2 Interactive (An interactive
   edutainment-oriented  voyage)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• The Classic 5 - MacPlay
• Clue (CD-ROM) - Virgin Interactive
• 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)
• 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)
• Grandmaster Chess - Capstone
• 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)
• The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time (CD-ROM) - Presto Studios (This
   sequel promises live-action video, advanced sound, better speed, and graphics
   effects)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Quest for Glory 4 - Sierra (The fourth installment of the adventure/RPG series.
   Quest for Glory 2 & 3 were never made for the Mac)
* Rocket Ranger - 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)
• Royal Flush - Amtex Software
• 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)
• Space Ace (CD-ROM) - ReadySoft (Enhanced for CD-ROM)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Voyeur (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A political thriller)
• War Patrol -  Alliance (A WWII submarine simulator.  The initial BattleSet will be
    for the Allied Pacific campaign)
• Wolfenstein 3D: Third Encounter (Released) - MacPlay (Contains 60 more
   levels)
• Zig Zag - QQP

February
* Blood Bath (CD-ROM & Floppy) - Underworld (An action game which features
    TruMotion, a groundbreaking new video compression technology which brings fast,
    full-motion, full-screen video to the Mac.  With this breakthrough technology,
   "Blood Bath" combines true interactive game play with actual video footage)
• Burn Cycle (CD-ROM) - Philips Media Games (A futuristic challenge that combines
    film drama and action/adventure gaming into an interactive program)
• D-Day 1944 - Arsenal Publishing (A division-level strategy game of the
    invasion and the following battles in France including Operation Cobra)
• 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)
• 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
• 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)
* Shanghai: Great Moments (CD-ROM) - Activision (Features three all-new games:
   Action Shanghai, Beijing and The Great Wall, plus Classic Shanghai.  Full advantage
   is taken of instantly recognizable "moments" with motion picture and TV clips,
   colorful animations, and digitized music to create lively reward screens for the
   player when intricately-detailed pairs of tiles are successfully matched)
* Solitaire Deluxe - MacPlay (Enjoy 24 of the world's most exciting solitaire games
    all in one game package)
• Worlds of Xeen (CD-ROM) - New World Computing (Huge RPG combining Might &
   Magic 4 & 5 on one CD-ROM disc.  PowerMac native and 68k)

March
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
* The Eyes of Frankenstein's Monster (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A retelling of the
    classic story in which the players look at the action through the eyes of the
    monster.  Tim Curry stars as the mad doctor)
• 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)
* Ishar 3, The Seven Gates of Infinity (CD-ROM) - ReadySoft (A hack-and-slash rpg
    similar to the classic Bard's Tale)
* Jewels of the Oracle (CD-ROM) - Discus (A Myst-like adventure game loaded with
    puzzles and outstanding graphics, sound,  and music)
• Police Quest 4 (CD-ROM) - Sierra (Enhanced for CD-ROM with full speech)
• Robinson's Requiem (CD-ROM) - Readysoft (A heavily puzzle-orientated adventure
   game where the player takes on the role of a hotshot FBI agent sent on a suicide
   mission)
• 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)
• 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. (Cancelled)

April
* Absolute Zero - Domark (A science-fiction strategy flight sim with
    texture-mapped graphics. Will take full advantage of PowerMacs)
• Doom 2 - Id Software (Sequel to Doom with more levels and more enemies)
• 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)
• 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)
• Star Trek: Judgement Rites - MacPlay (Sequel to Star Trek's 25th Anniversary)

May
* Kingdome (CD-ROM) - MacPlay (A Dragon's Lair type action game)
* System Shock - Origin (A Marathon-like 3D texture-mapped action/adventure
    game)
* U-Boat 2 - Deadly Games

June
• Beyond Squad Leader - Avalon Hill/Atomic (A computerized version of Advanced
   Squad Leader with outstanding graphics)
• Dust (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An interactive tale of a lawless town in the wild west)
• 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)
* Johnny Mnemonic (CD-ROM) - Sony Imagesoft (A highly interactive
    action/adventure movie with continuous flowing video.  Based on the movie of the
    same name to be released around the same time by Tri-Star Productions)
• 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)
* Necromancer (CD-ROM) - Reactor (A multimedia gothic horror game)
* Slammin' with Scottie Pippen (CD-ROM) - Digital Pictures (A basketball game
    with full-motion video)
* Supreme Fighter (CD-ROM) - Digital Pictures (A fighting game similar to Mortal
    Combat)

3rd Quarter
* African Adventure (CD-ROM) - SunStar (A sophisticated, interactive novel, using
    an exclusive AI engine.  Your partner is murdered and one of six passengers aboard
    the steam cruiser is the culprit)
• 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)
• Dark Streets (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (An electronic film noire)
* Descent - MacPlay (A Doom-like action/adventure game)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
* Warcraft - MacPlay (A strategy game in a fantasy setting)

Late 1995
* X-Wing - LucasArts (The epic Star Wars space flight simulator that is a huge hit
   on the PC side)
* Dark Forces (CD-ROM) - LucasArts (A 3D texture-mapped action game in a Star
   Wars setting)

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