From: scottb@netcom.com (L'etat des mortes)
Subject: Macintosh Games release listing - Complete List (Long)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 08:05:21 GMT
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Macintosh Games release listing - Complete List (Long)

Here's this weeks list


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 scottb@netcom.netcom.com 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 apprieciated) 

Most of the listings here have had some sort of print to some degree. 
(i.e. Magazine, Software release listing, Sneak previews, etc.)

		!Take the release dates with a grain of salt! 

I've been tracking games for some time. If there's one thing to be learned 
in tracking software releases, that would be that they almost always slip...
sometimes for YEARS (literally)

Catagories
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(RP)    -  Role Playing
(AC)    -  Action/Arcade
(WG)    -  Wargame
(SP)    -  Sports
(AD)    -  Adventure
(SI)    -  Simulation 
(ST)    -  Stragegy

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|Title:                |Company:	|date due:	|Comments:
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1942: "The Battle of Midway"                           (ST,WG) Strategy wargame 
                        Figment Interactive Design      using Quicktime movies 
                                        August          (CD-ROM)
           
A-Train                 Maxis           October        (ST)

Aces of the Pacific     Sierra          1993           (SI)

Battlechess-CD ROM      Interplay       August 7       (ST)

Bilestoad               ???              ???           (AC) Remake of the
                                                        Apple][ game

Bill Elliot's NASCAR    Konami          July-August    (SP)

Carriers at War         SSG             Feb'93 ?       (WG,ST)

Castles                 Interplay       October!?      (ST)

Castle of Dr. Brain     Sierra          Shipping       (AD)

Ceiling Shot Racquetball                               (SP) B&W + 256c + ALL
                        Virgin Games    September       Monitors Supported

Civilization            Microprose      Late'92-Early'93  (ST)
         
Computer Third Reich    Avalon Hill     ???            (WG) <unconfirmed>

Conquests of the Longbow
                        Sierra          September      (AD)

Corporation             Virgin          ???             <Can anyone confirm?>

Cyber Empire            SSI             September      (SCIFI-AD/RP)

Dark Queen of Krynn     SSI             September      (RP)

Diablo                  Graph/Sim      <overdue>       (SP) Unknown if Graphic
                                                        simulations is still 
                                                        really working on this 
                                                        project.

Dragon Boy              Leviathan       Summer         (AC)? Tentative title

Falcon v2.5             Spect/Holo      X-Mas          (SI) Color upgrade plus
                                                        improvements, title
                                                        to be changed.

Fantasy Challenge Baseball (CD-ROM)     ???            (SP) Incorporates real
                        Doc's Hi Tech Game Productions  video with game

Fleet Commander         RAW Entertainment"Comming Soon"(WG) Advirtisement

Free DC                 Cineplay        ???            (AD)"Mac coming soon"
                                                        <advertisement>

Guy Spy                 Readysoft       ???            (AD)

Harpoon Battleset #5
 (The Pacific Rim)      Three-Sixty     Overdue        (ST,WG)

Harpoon Designer Series Three-Sixty     September      (ST,WG) ?? 
                                                        More info needed

Harpoon  v1.3           Three-Sixty     Fall           (ST,WG) Bug fixes, etc..
                
Hellcats v2.0           Graphic Simulations            (SI) Network support 
                                        1993            Possibly new features

Hellcats NEW scenarios  Graph/Sim       Mid-Late Aug.  (SI) 8-12 New Missions, 
                                                        New Featues, Moving 
                                                        vehicles, and more! 
                                                        Rocket/torpedo options.
                                                        New enemy aircraft,etc.

Heaven & Earth          Buena Vista s/w July-Aug       (ST)
	
Hill Street Blues       DigiTek Software ??            (AD) "available soon" 	
  (The Computer Game)                                   advirtisment
	
Hoyle Book of Games v.3 Sierra          July           (ST)

Hoyle Book of Games v.4 Sierra          Oct-Dec        (ST)

Incredible Machine      Sierra          Oct-Dec        (??)

Indiana Jones and the
     Fate of Atlantis   Lucasfilm       Fall '92       (AD)

Island of Dr. Brain     Sierra          September      (AD)

Jack Nicklaus Signature
 Golf & Course Design   Accolaid        Fall           (SP)

Journeyman Project      Presto Studios  Summer'92      (AD) CD ROM game

King's Quest VI         Sierra          Oct-Dec        (AD)        

Laura Bow II            Sierra          September      (AD)

Lemmings                Pygnosis        July           (AC) Now listed in 
                                                        industry release, 
                                                        schedules should be
                                                        soon!

Links                   Access          <1993>         (SP) Access is currently
                                                        working on thier 
                                                        PC/Windows version, 
                                                        and have put Links/MAC
                                                        on the back burner
     
Lost Admiral            QQP             ???            (WG) Porting in progress

M                       SSI             November       (SCI-FI/RP)

MacWars                 Figment Interactive Design
                                        August         (AD) ? CD-ROM,
                                                        incorporating Quicktime
                                                        movies 

Megafortress            Three-Sixty     NEVER           ** Project Canceled **

Might & Magic III       New World Comp. November       (RP)	

Mission Impossible      Konami          Overdue        (AD)

Monkey Island 2         Lucasfilm       Fall '92       (AD) Lucasfilm Confirmed

Nova 9                  Dynamix         August         (SI)

Omar Sharif On Bridge   Interplay       Sept-Dec       (ST)    

Out of this World       Interplay       Aug-Nov        (AD)   

Pararena 2.0            Casady & Greene August         (AC) Color,network 
                                                        option, instant replays

Pax Imperia             Changeling      ?Aug-Sept-Oct? (ST)
                                                       "really bloody delayed"

Pirates GOLD            Microprose      Fall           (ST) <confirmed!>

Police Quest I          Sierra          July           (AD)

Police Quest III        Sierra          July           (AD)

Pool of Darkness        SSI             August         (RP)

Prince of Persia II     Broderbund      <unknown>      (AC)          

Quest For Glory I       Sierra          August         (AD)

Quest For Glory III     Sierra          September      (AD)

Quarky & Quaysoo's "Turbo Science"   
                        Sierra          Oct-Dec        (AD)???

Retro                   Casady&Greene   Fall           (AC) Color, B&W, filled-
                                                        polygon 3-D graphics

Rex Nebular             Microprose      ?1993?         (AD) More Info Needed

Sargon V                Activision      Fall+?         (ST)       

Screaming Metal         Reactor         August+        (AD) CD-ROM ala REACTOR

Screen Antics           Dynamix         October        (??)

Secret of Monkey Island ][
                        Lucasfilm       Fall '92       (AD)

SimCity 2000            Maxis           Spring '93     (ST)

SimLife                 Maxis           September      (ST)

Shattered Lands         SSI             ?Nov-Dec?      (RP) SSI's new Dark Sun
                                                        series 
                                                        Advirt-CGW Aug '92

Soul Gunner             Subaru          July 92        (SI) disk version - CD-ROM 
                                                        to come later; 
                                                        256 color tank combat
                                                        real-time simulation 
                                                        (ie a "Hellcats-like 
                                                        Spectre")

Space Inc.              Internecine     ???            (ST) <last press said
                                                        "early '92">

Space Quest I (256c)    Sierra          August         (AD) delayed!

Space Quest V           Sierra          Oct-Dec        (AD)

SpaceWard HO! 3.0       DeltaTAO        Dec'92/Jan'93  (ST) Ground-up rewrite

Star Trek:
 25th Anniversary       Interplay       1993           (AD)            

Swords of Glory         3D Software     Mid August     (AC) 256c, networkable

Take a Break! Pinball   Sierra          September      (AC)

Take-A-Break! Pool      Sierra          Oct-Dec        (AC)

The Dark Tower                                         (RP) Unknown if this is
  (Citadel II)          Postcraft       Overdue         really being developed

Theatre of War          Three-Sixty     ???            (ST)

Tom Landry Strategy Football
                        Merit Software  August         (SP)

Total Distortion        Pop Rocket      ???            (AD) From Joe Sparks who
                                                        previously worked on
                                                        SpaceShip Warlock

Velikiye Luki           Three-Sixty     September      (WG) Next battleset in                                                         the
                                                        the V for Victory
                                                        series based on the 
                                                        Eastern front

Wilderland              Avalon Hill     <overdue>      (RP) Sequel to Legends 

Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant                  
                        Sir Tech        Nov'92-Jan'93  (RP)



Summary of Titles shipped in July
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Castle of Dr. Brain     Sierra         (AD)
Command HQ              Microprose     (WG,ST)
Leisure Suite Larry I   Sierra         (AD)               
Lexicross               Interplay      (AC,ST)
Lost Treasures of Infocom II           (AD) Various           
                Activision/Infocom?
Playmaker Football v2.0 Broaderbund    (SP)
SimCity v1.4            Maxis          (SI,ST) Upgrade
                                        Updater Available
Super Tetris            Spectrum Holo  (AC,ST)                                    







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I'm looking for HARD FACTs or GOOD rumor!  Corrections also apprieciated

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