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Thankfully long before that. I recall Diablo 1 was released for Mac OS (9?) only a few weeks/months after PC, and Warcraft I and II had full Mac Support!

Too bad the GPU race has left Macs in the dust.

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Diablo was released for PC in January 1997, and didn't show up on Mac until May 1998. StarCraft had a similar delay (March 1998 to March 1999).

All three WarCraft games were simultaneous releases for Windows and Mac OS, though.

IIRC it was't purely a post-release-port, they did have parallel development tracks before anything was released and for some titles they didn't want to risk the upfront cost for the relatively small percentage right away.

I remember going over to a friends place who owned a Mac in order to play Warcraft 2 network games.

Warcraft 2 was my first experience playing a cross-platform network game. I was on a PC and I dialled in to my friend’s Mac. Understanding how things are architected now it makes perfect sense, but as a kid my mind was blown since I considered these to be wholly incompatible platforms.

Multi Player Game > TCP/IP ...

Miss those menus

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