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From: lbotez@pro-sol.cts.com (Lynda Botez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Games for the Apple IIGS
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Date: 3 Sep 90 06:57:22 GMT
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Doug Gwyn writes:

>A few days ago I tried to order the following from Programs Plus, one
>of the few mail-order outfits I have been able to find that stocks
>useful IIGS software, and they say that even they don't have these
>(all of which I have heard have recently been "released"):
>        Dragon Wars (IIGS-specific, not 8-bit) [Interplay]
>        Cosmocade (IIGS) [Micro Revelations]
>        Transylvania 3 (IIGS) [Polarware]
>Thus, these products cannot possibly be selling well, which will 
>undoubtedly be taken as more evidence that "there is no significant 
>Apple II(GS) market".

>P.S.  If anybody knows for sure where I can purchase these, please let
>me know!


>Add
>        Rastan (IIGS) [Taito]
>to this list.


Boy... I guess this drought with no Apple IIGS games has been pretty bad.
However, before you get all excited and start proclaiming the Apple II a
dead machine  :-)  ...  please keep in mind a couple of things.

A new game may be released by its manufacturer, but that doesn't mean it 
becomes instantly available to software suppliers like Programs Plus or
Silicon Express.

If you want a game bad enough, order it direct from the publisher, like
Taito.  It will cost you more, but you'll get it right away.  For 
example, Rastan GS _ started_ shipping a week ago; but that doesn't mean 
it went everywhere.  A friend of mine got his copy this Friday (he paid 
for Red Label delivery, and list price). If you want to get the discount,
you'll probably have to wait for a couple of weeks for Rastan.  Egghead
probably won't have Rastan in its stores until a month from now.

Dragonwars GS isn't finished yet.  That's why the mail-order people don't
know about it.  Dragonwars is going to have a surprise for everyone;
the music will be implementing the new midi-synth stuff  :-).

Cosmocade, while finished, isn't out because Brian Greenstone (the author)
hasn't completed negotiating with the company who will be releasing it.
Until that is done, you won't see Cosmocade out.  I have no idea how that
is progressing.  I hope we'll see it soon, however.

Transylvania III?  Didn't we just get Transylvania II?  (I don't really
know about that one; sorry).

There are some other new games being developed of the Apple IIGS, one
is Dragon's Lair (from what I've heard, there are arguments between the
programmer and the company; so that's why this one is being delayed);
and I understand Electronic Arts is going to be putting out a new one by
the author of Zany Golf; an RPG game (the name escapes me for the
moment); and a new Cryllian Mission (totally new scenerio; actually a
totally different game); Renegade GS.  

Possibly, we'll get Pipedreams GS; and Taito has plans for one more game
(but I can't remember the name of that one either, is it Oids?).  Also, I 
heard that Task Force sold well, so Britannia may put out another GS game.

Oh, one more thing.  Just because you see a game listed in an ad in
Incider, for example; it doesn't mean that it's available.  It is just
that the ads are printed up so far in advance that they are making a
few optimistic assumptions.

Lynda