Dark Ages (1991 video game)

Dark Ages
Developer(s)Scenario Software
Publisher(s)Apogee Software
Designer(s)Todd Replogle
Artist(s)Allen H. Blum III
Composer(s)Keith Schuler
Platform(s)MS-DOS, Windows, Mac OS
Release
  • NA: February 1, 1991
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player

Dark Ages is a platform game written for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software. It was the first shareware game to feature music for the AdLib sound card.[1]

Dark Ages was distributed as shareware. It consists of three episodes, with only the first episode playable in the shareware version. The episodes are:

  1. Prince of Destiny
  2. The Undead Kingdom
  3. Dungeons of Doom

The game was released as freeware on March 20, 2009,[2] and for Steam with Windows and Mac OS support in 2015.

  1. ^ Todd Replogle & Allen Blum (1991). "Dark Ages Manual" (PDF). Apogee Software. Retrieved December 5, 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ "Several old games released as Freeware". 3D Realms. Retrieved 26 March 2009.