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Dark Castle is a 1986 computer game for the Macintosh published by Silicon Beach Software. It was designed and illustrated by Mark Pierce and programmed by Jonathan Gay. Dark Castle is a platform game where a young hero tries to make his way to the evil Black Knight, dodging objects as well as solving occasional puzzles. It’s upon this canvas that Dark Castle was lovingly rendered, a side-scrolling platform game inhabited by exquisitely animated characters and featuring a mischievous sense of humor that would come. Dark Castle was one of my favorite games to play on the old mid-1980s Macintoshes like the Mac Plus. I spent some time last year looking for a version I could run in Windows, but with no success. A few weeks ago I discovered a tutorial for running Dark Castle via a Mac emulator. I felt it was a bit confusing and left something to be desired, so I decided to put together a one-stop shop for playing Dark Castle in Windows. Where can I find Dark Castle sound samples? June 6, 2007 7:24 AM Subscribe. I've recently re-discovered the old Mac game Dark Castle, and found an emulator for it, but does anyone know where I can download sound samples from the game? I'd love to set up a 'nya nya nya nya nya' ringtone or something like that. What is Dark Castle? A classic single-screen platformer. Head to the Dark Castle and take out the evil Black Knight! Featured impressive visuals, audio, and gameplay for its time, and is still fun today (if unforgiving). Pioneered the use of the WASD in combination with the mouse as a control method. Download Dark Castle for Mac.
Dark Castle
DOS - 1987
Also available on: Mac - Genesis - Commodore 64 - Amiga - Atari ST - Apple IIgs
Description of Dark Castle
MobyGames says it all:
Dark Castle is a platform game that relies more on timing and careful planning than quick reflexes and shooting things. It's clever--a thinking man's platformer. One thing that contributes to this is a completely 360 degree firing direction. When you throw a rock, you can rotate your arm to any angle. This takes time to learn effectively, but after about half an hour, it really helps knock out some enemies threatening to get you.
Fun, but frustrating :)
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Comments and reviews
esbc2019-10-200 point
great old game played on mac dark and beyond dark castle
Khalid2019-01-190 point
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Joe2018-12-060 point Mac version
Nice! Played this on my freshman dorm on my roommate's 1st generation Mac. Was the only person on the hall to finally topple the Dark Knight, and certainly put in the time to do it. Graphics not as good as I remember, but had lower expectations back then. F'ing bats!
jon2018-11-290 point Mac version
I grew up with this and BDC on a mac plus my dad got from a coworker. This was pretty much my favorite game for years, and I still love it. The black and white graphics in this game on the original mac version are second to none, IMHO.
GEE2018-04-23-1 point Mac version
Avast stopped my download of the Mac version because it said it was infected with MacOS: cdef-A
mike2013-06-092 points DOS version
One of the best games ever on the Mac. I used to play this at Wang Towers when I visited my dad and he had to stay late
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DOS Version
Mac Version
- Year:1986
- Publisher:Silicon Beach Software, Inc.
- Developer:Silicon Beach Software, Inc.
Genesis ROM
Old Mac Games Dark Castle 2
- Year:1991
- Publisher:Electronic Arts, Inc.
- Developer:Silicon Beach Software, Inc.
Commodore 64 Version
- Year:1987
- Publisher:Three-Sixty Pacific, Inc.
- Developer:Silicon Beach Software, Inc.
Amiga ROM
- Year:1987
- Publisher:Mirrorsoft Ltd.
- Developer:Silicon Beach Software, Inc.
Atari ST ROM
- Year:1987
- Publisher:Mirrorsoft Ltd.
- Developer:Silicon Beach Software, Inc.
Apple IIgs Version
- Year:1989
- Publisher:Three-Sixty Pacific, Inc.
- Developer:Silicon Beach Software, Inc.
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The Black Knight has brought misery to the land, and the end way to end this is to enter his haunted house to slay him. You are the brave adventurer taking on this quest through 14 increasingly-tough zones.
The bulk of the game is side-viewed, involving single screens to pass through, which incorporate ropes, cages and trapdoor. There are enemies walking, flying and hovering through this, and many of them respawn. Unusually your weapon to take them on (rocks) can be thrown through 360 degrees, which aims to make the gameplay more realistic and methodical. The screens were linked by hub screens, which the player passes through simply by clicking on a door.
You enter a darkcastle in which you can play different levels. Eliminate enemies and watch out for rats. There are 3 difficult levels to play the game.
MobyGames says it all: 'Dark Castle is a platform game that relies more on timing and careful planning than quick reflexes and shooting things. It's clever--a thinking man's platformer. One thing that contributes to this is a completely 360 degree firing direction. When you throw a rock, you can rotate your arm to any angle. This takes time to learn effectively, but after about half an hour, it really helps knock out some enemies threatening to get you.' Fun, but frustrating :)
I grew up on platform games. Large portions of my childhood were spent getting to a certain place, edging to the last pixel of a platform (falling of the end frequently), jumping, missing my target and either falling to my death of having to play through half a level to get back to where I was. Repeat this process at least 20 times until you finaly make the jump, only to crew up on the next one. Is it any wonder that I have grown up with 'issues'?
Anyway, Dark Castle is a platform game, and rather a good one at that. Fight, um. jump and solve puzzles in your quest to defeat the evil Black Knight. The game has quite an interesting 360 degree aimaing system, so that when you want to through a rock you rotate your arm until you get the angle that you want. It take a while to get used to but it adds a little bit to the fun of the game.
From the box cover : 'So real it's frightening. Taking complete advantage of your computer's sound and visual capabilities.. ' Well. when compared with the MAC version the graphics are superior (they're in colour for a start ;)) but the sound in the game is of an extremely poor quality. The MAC version used 8bit sounds, the PC veriosn uses 1bit sounds - you do the math. Not a particularly outstanding game, but fun nonetheless.
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