MacPlay was the name used by a series of two American

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 publishers of Macintosh computer games. No game has been published under the MacPlay brand name since 2004.

1990 - 1997 Period

MacPlay was founded in the early 1990s as a division

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 of Interplay Entertainment

Interplay Entertainment

Interplay Entertainment Corporation is an American video game developer and publisher, founded in 1983 as Interplay Productions by Brian Fargo. The company had been a quality developer until they started publishing their own games in 1988, like Neuromancer and Battle Chess. The company was renamed...

. It was led by producer Bill Dugan. During this period, MacPlay published notable games including Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein 3D

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, Out of this World

Another World (video game)

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, the Alone in the Dark

Alone in the Dark

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 series, and the Descent

Descent (video game)

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 series.

Due to the 1990s decline in the Mac market, Interplay exited the Macintosh games market and abandoned the MacPlay division in 1997.

2000 - 2004 Period

In 2000, United Developers LLC licensed the MacPlay brand name from Interplay for use as the name of a wholly owned subsidiary corporation. Ron Dimant became CEO of this new incarnation of MacPlay, which was headquartered in Dallas, TX. In the early 2000s, MacPlay published two lines of games- regular games and "value" games. Notable games published during this period included Baldur's Gate II

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

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, Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim

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, and the first two games in the Fallout series. The last game published by MacPlay was Tron 2.0

Tron 2.0

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 in May of 2004.

Post-2004

United Developers continues to hold the rights to the MacPlay name. From November 2004 - 2008, the MacPlay.com domain was used as a software retail outlet.

In 2008, the MacPlay.com domain was changed to redirect to MumboJumbo

MumboJumbo

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, itself a subsidiary of United Developers founded by MacPlay CEO Ron Dimant and located in Dallas, TX.