Re: Games ever released?

[a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

Jeff Thomas <a2forever@usa.net> wrote:

>I want to know if any of the following games were ever released for the
>Apple II or IIgs? I've included the 'original' computers they were
>released on.
[list snipped]
>
>I suspect also, games by the software houses: Gremlin ('Hero's Quest'),
>Bullfrog ('Popolous' fame) and Maxis ('SimCity series) 'never' created
>any Apple II software, either for the Apple IIe or IIgs.

    Bill Heineman (aka BurgerBill) started coding an Apple IIgs port
of SimCity several years back, but shelved the project after Maxis
insisted on a huge licensing fee--US$150,000 I remember. This 
was already _after_ the mainstream commercial software market 
for the IIgs had collapsed.

    Many gaming software projects were cancelled (some even 
finished yet not released) because of the state of the Apple II 
market by the very start of the 1990's.

Mitchell Spector
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca