Two games published by XOR Corporation for Macintosh, MacGolf (1986) and MacSki (1990), were inducted into the Macworld Game Hall of Fame in the "Best Sports Game" category.[4][5]MacGolf was a top-selling Macintosh game upon its release and had sold 70,000 copies by 1988; it was still the best-selling Macintosh game in September 1988.[6]
In 1985 XOR released NFL Challenge, an
American football simulation game officially endorsed by the
NFL,[7] for DOS and Macintosh.
ESPN used NFL Challenge to simulate games for its NFL Dream Season television show, playing each game 100 times to determine the outcomes.[8]NFL Challenge was the first software officially licensed by the NFL.[9]
In the wake of NFL Challenge's success, XOR CEO Glenn Diamond approached the
CIA in 1985 about an official endorsement and collaboration for an upcoming video game. The CIA rejected his proposal.[2]
In 1985, XOR corporation collaborated with
Timothy Leary on an unreleased video game, book, and possible companion album by
Devo with the working title The Brain Game. The game intended to use Leary's brain models to increase the player's intelligence via a symbiotic process of psychological testing and self-reflection.[1][10][11][12]