| Dark Castle | |
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| Developer(s) | Silicon Beach Software |
| Designer(s) | Mark Stephen Pierce Jonathan Gay |
| Platform(s) | Macintosh, Amiga, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Genesis, Commodore 64, CD-i, MSX |
| Release | 1986: Macintosh 1987: PC, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST |
| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Dark Castle is a 1986 platform game for Macintosh, originally published by Silicon Beach Software. The game was designed and animated by Mark Pierce and programmed by Jonathan Gay, with Real Sound provided by Eric Zocher. In Dark Castle, a young hero named Duncan attempts to reach the evil Black Knight while dodging various objects and solving occasional puzzles.
A sequel, Beyond Dark Castle, was released in 1987. A second sequel, Return to Dark Castle, was developed by Super Happy Fun Fun, Inc. and released on the Mac App Store on March 14, 2008.
Ports to other platforms were also published by Three-Sixty Pacific and Electronic Arts for the SEGA Genesis. The series has sold over 1 million copies.[1]
- ^ "A New Hero Arrives to Battle the Black Knight!" (PDF). superhappyfunfun.com. March 20, 2008. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 14, 2008. Retrieved July 19, 2023.