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Dark Castle! It was so great for the time. https://archive.org/details/mac_DarkCastle_1_2 https://archive.org/details/mac_DarkCastle_1_2

• phjesusthatguy3 10y ago
  The Dark Castle games are what I intend to try first when I get BasiliskII[0] set up on Playstation Vita. [0]https://github.com/meetpatty/basiliskii/releases https://github.com/meetpatty/basiliskii/releases
• username223 10y ago
  Part of me wants to download and play that, but another part is afraid. Games were hard back then, and Dark Castle was brutal! I can still hear that weird yodel you make after a non-fatal fall almost 30 years later.
• DonHopkins 10y ago
  I ran into Jonathan Gay at CGDC, and upon realizing who he was, I squatted down, raised up my arms up above my head, flapped my hands, and chanted "Nya nya nya nya nya!" Dark Castle was so cool, I totally forgave him for writing Flash.
  • pmarreck 10y ago
    TIL the author of Dark Castle went on to write Flash. (Didn't it start out as some Macromedia thing?)
    • DonHopkins 10y ago
      Jonathan Gay [1] and Charlie Jackson [2] founded FutureWave Software [3], and developed a drawing program called "SmartSketch", to which they added animation features and renamed "FutureSplash Animator" to challenge Macromedia Shockwave [4], which Macromedia (nee "Macromind") then bought and renamed "Macromedia Flash". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gay [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Jackson_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Jackson_(software) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureWave_Software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureWave_Software [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave
      • pmarreck 10y ago
        wow, that's awesome! Also, any old Dark Castle fans should note that "Return to Dark Castle" exists and was finally released a few years ago https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/return-to-dark-castle/id410703154?mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/return-to-dark-castle/id4107... (possibly the longest wait for a game sequel ever?)
        • jnwatson 10y ago
          That is the second sequel. The first one was Beyond Dark Castle, a truly excellent game.
          • pmarreck 10y ago
            Ah good point. Yeah, finished both of those back in the day.