The Mac Games Release List
by Paul Natsch

This is the most comprehensive and informative release list for the Macintosh gaming community. Take the release dates with a grain of salt because they are VERY tentative!  In fact, some of these titles may never see the light of day.                                           

Summary of titles released in March
• Eight Ball Deluxe - Amtex Software (From the people who gave us Tristan)
• Super Mines - Callisto Corp. (Commercial minesweeper type game)
• Market Garden - Three-Sixty (Next battleset in the V for Victory series)
• Spectre Supreme - Velocity (Much improved over original with new enemies and more
   options)

Summary of titles released in April
• Lunicus (4/11/93) (CD-ROM) - Cyberflix (Interactive cruise through a 3D world to
   save the future.  Virtual reality environment, original soundtrack, and talking Cyber
   Puppets. From Dark Castle creator Bill Appleton)
• King's Quest 6 (4/12/93) - Sierra (Next in the popular series. 25 megs in size with
   improved Mac game engine and support for Quicktime)
• AD&D Unlimited Adventures (4/30/93) - Strategic Simulations (Create your own
   AD&D adventures in the Gold Box format)
• Caesar's Palace - Virgin Mastertronic (Play Blackjack, Poker, Roulette, Baccarat, or
   the Slot Machines)
• The Legend of Kyrandia (4/23/93) - Virgin Mastertronic (Fantasy, graphic
   adventure game)

May
• Darkseed - Cyberdreams (Sci-fi/Horror adventure with artwork from H.R. Giger)
• Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist - Sierra (From Al Lowe, creator of Leisure Suit
   Larry)
• Castles 2 - MacPlay (The original Castles was cancelled for the Mac, but Castles 2 is
   much improved and will feature a great Mac interface)
• Sherlock Holmes 3 (Released)(CD-ROM) - ICOM Simulations
• Bridge Master (Released)- Capstone
• The Iron Helix  (CD-ROM) - Drew Pictures (Explore a derelect spaceship with a
   probe and try to prevent a war)
• G-netix - ISM
• Zone of Avoidance - Casady & Greene
• Crystal Crazy - Casady & Greene (Totally new Crystal Quest type game)
• Space Madness - High Risk Ventures (Defend the universe from invading aliens)
• Harpoon Designer Series 2 - Three-Sixty (Includes 50 page data annex and Official
   Guide to Harpoon Tactics)
• Carriers at War - SSG (Naval simulation that will take full advantage of the Mac's
   capabilities)
• Virtual Valerie: Director's Cut (CD-ROM) - Reactor (Virtual Valerie 1 with added
   video never seen before)
• Wilderness - Avalon Hill (Sequel to Legend of the Lost Realm)
• Awesome Adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo 2 (CD-ROM) - Sanctuary Woods (Next
   in series, entitled "The Dinosaur's Egg")
• Soul Gunner (CD-ROM) - Subaru (Virtual Reality-like tank combat simulation)
• Inspector Gadget - Azeroth
• Dragon's Lair 3 - ReadySoft
• The Classic 5 - MacPlay
• Sargon V - Spinnaker 
• Omar Sharif On Bridge - MacPlay
• Maze Wars - Calisto (Spectre-like network game)

June
• NFL Challenge: Premium Edition - XOR (Color with more features)
• The Lost Admiral - OOP (Strategic war game that is very popular on MS-DOS
   platforms right now)
• Spaceway 2000 - Casady & Greene (Spyhunter type game)
• 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)
• Rex Nebular - Microprose (Sci-fi graphic adventure with humor)
• Total Distortion (CD-ROM) - Pop Rocket (Billed as a Rock & Roll graphic adventure
   game)
• Space Quest 5 - Dynamix (The further adventures of Roger Wilco entitled "The Next
   Mutation")
• F-18 Hornet - Graphic Simulations
• Sword-Juno-Gold - Three-Sixty (Next battleset in the V for Victory series)

July
• Star Trek 25th Anniversary - MacPlay (Graphic role-playing adventure with your
   favorite Star Trek characters from the old Trek)
• Hellcab (CD-ROM) - Warner New Media (An adventure in which you must travel
   through time and save your soul from Satan)
• Virtual Valerie 2 (CD-ROM) - Reactor (New graphics and sophisticated 3D modeling,
   animation, digitzed sound effects, and an original music score) 
• Pathways Into Darkness - Bungie Software (Action/Adventure that uses a
   three-dimensional, continuous-motion graphics system that utilizes texture mapping)
• Crosswords - Dynamix
• Take-a-Break Pinball - Sierra
• The Incredible Machine - Dynamix (Thinking game like a computer erector set)
• Hill Street Blues - Digitek (Play your favorite characters from the TV show)
• Victory at Sea - Three-Sixty (World War II naval warfare game)
• Uninvited - ICOM (Will now run on the latest Macs under System 7)

August
• Strategic Conquest - Delta Tao 
• Eric's Ultimate Solitaire - Delta Tao 
• Windstalker - Delta Tao 

September
• Chessmaster 3000 - Software Toolworks (Direct port from the DOS version with
   some possible added features) 
• Crusaders of the Dark Savant - Sir-Tech (Takes full advantage of Mac's capabilities.
   8-bit color) 
• F117A Stealth Fighter - Microprose (Port is being done by the same team that brought
   Civilization to the Mac) 

Fourth Quarter and Beyond
• Spaceship Warlock 2 (CD-ROM) - Reactor (January 1994)
• Screaming Metal (CD-ROM) - Reactor (October 1993)
• The GGA Tour (CD-ROM) - ICOM Simulations (A golf game that uses wacky locations
   and scenes for each hole)
• In Search of the Fabulous Fuzzbox (CD-ROM) - MacPlay
• Day of the Tentacle - LucasArts (Graphic cartoonish adventure. Sequel to Maniac
   Mansion)
• SimCity Supreme - Maxis (complete rewrite)
• Decisive Battles of the American Civil War Vol. 3 - SSG
• Hole-in-one Miniature Golf Deluxe - Digitek
• Stalingrad - Three-Sixty (Next battleset in the V for Victory series)
• Citadel 2 - Postcraft International (This sequel is suppose to be in color)
• Fleet Commander - Internecine (Sub simulation)
• Nobunaga's Revenge - Koel
• Uncharted Waters - Koel
• Dark Sun: Shattered Lands - Strategic Simulations (Completely new Mac engine that
   takes full advantage of the Mac) (November)
• Might & Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen - New World Computing (Late '93/Early '94)
• SimCity 2000 - Maxis 
• Sim Farm - Maxis
• El-fish - Maxis (Breed your own fish)
• U-233 - Deadly Games (Type VII German U-boat in the North Atlantic) (Fall)
• Return of the Phantom - Microprose (Graphic adventure)
• DragonSphere - Microprose (Graphic adventure)
• Prince of Persia 2 - Broderbund (Will have better graphics and more enemies) (Late
   '93/Early '94)
• King's Quest 6 (CD-ROM) - Sierra (The multimedia version with full voice support
   done by real actors) (No date set) 
• Pirates GOLD - Microprose (Under consideration for the Mac by Microprose)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation - Spectrum Holybyte (1994)

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 rumor. (Corrections also appreciated)

Paul Natsch
America Online - PaulN24
Prodigy - JBFM05A