In 1992, Tuncer Deniz, who was unemployed, decided to create a magazine called
Inside Mac Games — he came up with the name after seeing a copy of
Inside Sports at a newsstand — that would be dedicated to reviews of new and upcoming Macintosh computer games. Deniz interested a friend, Jon Blum, in the project, but neither of them had the capital or the expertise to publish a print magazine. Instead, they envisioned an electronic magazine. Using a
shareware lay-out program, Deniz and Blum created the first issue, which contained reviews of four
flight simulators — Parsoft Interactive's
Hellcats Over the Pacific and
Missions at Leyte Gulf,
Spectrum HoloByte's
Falcon MC, and
Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 — as well as hints,
Easter eggs and reviews about older games such as
Maelstrom and
Tom Landry Strategy Football, and most importantly, a playable preview of
F/A-18 Hornet that
Graphic Simulations planned to release in a few months. In 1996, Deniz left
IMG to work for
Bungie, but returned in 1999. The following year, the CD-ROM distribution of the magazine was dropped in favour of downloads from the
IMG website. By 2005, Deniz had opened an on-line software store through the
IMG website, using a subscription model of $29 per month for a monthly free game and discounts on other products. that featured Mac game news, reviews and general discussion. After 33 episodes, the original hosts left to start a new podcast, and the
IMG podcast was relaunched later the same year with a new host, running for a further 38 episodes. By 2010, interest in Mac-exclusive games had cooled, and by 2018, the
IMG website was reduced to the user forums, with a link to Tuncer Deniz's on-line software store. ==References==