From: bgohari@wam.umd.edu (Babak Gohari)
Subject: New Mac Games
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:43:31 GMT

OK, since no one has done one in a while, here is a list of new mac games
(commercial)

Civilization (Microprose) - released.  Strategy game that makes you control
a civilization from early tribes up to the space age.  Very good game, and
your early decisions affects how the game ends up at later stages.

Out of this World (MacPlay) - released.  Adventure game using polygons rather
than traditional bit mapped graphics.  Should be pretty good.  I don't have
it, so I can't tell you first hand, but from what others have said, and from
the demo, it looks like fun.

Spaceward Ho!, version 3.0 (Delta Tao) - again, I haven't seen it, but it is
supposedly a major upgrade from 2.0.

ok, those were the very newest games.  Some sort-of-new games:

Pax Imperia (Changeling) - good concept, poor implementation.  Let's hope that
the upgrades fix it.  Oh, it's a space strategy game, much more complex than
Spaceward Ho!

Monkey Island 2 - LeChuck's Revenge (LucasArts) - typical LucasArt graphic
adventure.  A port, but the sound and stuff are great, as is the story.

Indiana Jones - Search for Atlantis (LucasArts) - also released.  Pretty good.
Different story paths.  Another graphic adventure.

Stellar 7 (Sierra/Dynamix) - released.  Haven't seen it, but I think it's
a bit-mapped, Spectre-like game.

V for Victory - Battle set #2, Velikiyu Luki <sp?> (Three-Sixty) - released.
A more indepth battleset from the original V4V.  Complex strategy game set
in WWII.  Haven't seen this one either.

finally, games to come:

Might & Magic III (New World Computing) - should be an awesome frp game.
It was supposed to have been released last month, but bugs have pushed it
back.  Current release date: end of January.

F/A-18 Hornet (Graphic Simulations) - from what the people at the MacWorld

Expo say, it is an awesome flight-simulator game.  Supposed release: late
Spring?

Spectre Supreme (Velocity) - a major upgrade from the old Spectre.  No more
needs to be said.  Release: end of this month, I believe.  Maybe a few
weeks later.

D.O.T.T. (LucasArts) - the next graphic adventure to be made for the Mac.
It is supposedly made in conjunction with the IBM version.  Release: ???

Rex Nebular (Microprose) - next mac game from the company.  Graphic Adventure.
Release: late spring I believe.

F117A, Phantom, and Dragonsphere (all microprose) - the micoprose rep on AOL
said that these are the next mac games to be released.  F117A is a flight
sim that simulates the guess what?  Yup, the F117-A Stealth Fighter.  I
Have no idea what Phantom and Dragonsphere are.  Release: ???

A-Train Construction Set (Maxis) - lets you create new maps for A-Train.
Release: next couple weeks.

SimCity 2000 - total and major upgrade of old SimCity.  Tentative release:
mid to late Summer.

El Fish (Maxis) - I have no idea what this is, nor when they will release it.
Maxis says that's the next real mac game to be released.  So it'll probably
be after A-Train construction, before SC 2000.


<sigh>  Done!  If anyone has any changes or something, let me know, or just
post it here.  The above is all done to the best of my knowledge, so they
may not be perfect.

-Bob