| 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 |
| Release | 1986: Mac 1987: PC, C64, Amiga, Atari 1989: IIGS 1991: Genesis 1992: CD-i 1993: MSX |
| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Dark Castle is a 1986 platform game for Macintosh that was originally published by Silicon Beach Software. The original game was designed and animated by Mark Pierce and programmed by Jonathan Gay with Real Sound by Eric Zocher. In Dark Castle, a young hero named Duncan tries to make his way to the evil Black Knight, dodging objects as well as solving occasional puzzles.
A sequel, Beyond Dark Castle, was released in 1987. A second sequel, Return to Dark Castle, was released by Super Happy Fun Fun, Inc. and was 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 SEGA Genesis. The series 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.