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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Megatron on August 13, 2019, 07:26:07 PM

Title: Help with an old mysterious PC Game
Post by: Megatron on August 13, 2019, 07:26:07 PM

Hey guys!

I needs a little help with something.  Digging through my parents' attic I came across this:

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/68dd/o7gmyq59i20hmpt6g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/?o7gmyq59i20hmpt)

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5c4e/id6thyzxryixvbj4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/id6thyzxryixvbj/mmag2.jpeg/file)

Might and Magic I & II released for the Mac in 1992 on 3.5 inch floppy disks.  I had completely forgotten about this, it has my old hand written notes and even a letter response from the publisher that I received answering a question about the game.  Looking through this stuff really took me back.

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/644e/mag9y7qlcgp8z3w4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/mag9y7qlcgp8z3w/mag3.jpeg/file)

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d17c/9slism0ycs0u0w24g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/9slism0ycs0u0w2/mmag4.jpeg/file)

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/a82a/fr5guhn9an5zye44g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/fr5guhn9an5zye4/mmag5.jpeg/file)

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/dabc/ffylty73nm7c9ly4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/ffylty73nm7c9ly/mmag6.jpeg/file)

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/aa2b/i8hcfr2pix48qg76g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/?i8hcfr2pix48qg7)

Anyway, after the nostalgia wore off I tried to fined out info on this game, maybe to sell it, maybe to just see what it's historical significance was.  But...I can't find it.  Anywhere.  Like, I can't even find acknowledgement that this game ever came out.  Sure I can find the individual titles, but I could not find any information about this particular compilation.  I did find ONE image of it, but it led nowhere.  

Does anyone know where I might be able to find information out on old/obscure PC/Mac games?

Full disclosure - when I say "looked", I spent maybe 2 or 3 hours on google.  So if I missed some glaring, obvious link or whatever, then sorry.  But any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Re: Help with an old mysterious PC Game
Post by: retrosherman on August 13, 2019, 07:48:53 PM

Found some limited information on it here:

https://mightmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Might_and_Magic_Compilations (https://mightmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Might_and_Magic_Compilations)

Apparently it's the only versions of MM I & II, that were released for Mac.

Edit: Found some history here:

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/video-game-macintosh-might-and-magic-i-and-ii/EAHrpVquFdJCUQ (https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/video-game-macintosh-might-and-magic-i-and-ii/EAHrpVquFdJCUQ)

Title: Re: Help with an old mysterious PC Game
Post by: Megatron on August 14, 2019, 01:22:20 PM

Thank you!  This is definitely a start in the right direction.  I had no idea that this was the first time MM was on Mac...you'd think they'd advertise that on the box or something.  Oh well.  Thanks again!