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In Search Of... Old Apple Game
PatboyX
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im wondering what the name of this old apple maze-ish RPG type game was.
i played it on a classic, it was black and white (although the machine may have been only capable of black and white). it was dungeon-y. so much so that i think the name was dungeon something. the opening was a dude crossing a bridge into a black castle with bats flying all around. then you'd wander through some hallways.
i seem to remember it being a mostly over-head view for the inside.
the only music i remember is that hacky organ stuff that im pretty sure translates "Vampires Abound"
anyway, this game would either kill me or crash every two seconds so i never got very far into it. just wondering if anyone had any hints as to what it could be.
thanks.
i played it on a classic, it was black and white (although the machine may have been only capable of black and white). it was dungeon-y. so much so that i think the name was dungeon something. the opening was a dude crossing a bridge into a black castle with bats flying all around. then you'd wander through some hallways.
i seem to remember it being a mostly over-head view for the inside.
the only music i remember is that hacky organ stuff that im pretty sure translates "Vampires Abound"
anyway, this game would either kill me or crash every two seconds so i never got very far into it. just wondering if anyone had any hints as to what it could be.
thanks.
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it was really the first game I played with WASD for movement and mouse aiming though in a 2d platformer.
To continue though: did you know there wasa SEQUEL? Return to Dark Castle, I think it was. And it featured a HUGE enviroment to explore, and if I recall it even had a little helicopter backpack thingie that you had to fly across a marsh... or something. It was equally good, if not better, than Dark Castle.
Last I checked, you can grab a demo from Ambroisa software for Mac OS X. I think if you Google it, there's also a PC version (in color) too.
But yeah, i remember beyond even more than the original. I was too young to remember the original, then when we got a new computer and played the sequel, the original didn't work on the new computer.
Edit: A demo of return to dark castle is available at the blog of the director. http://www.deltatao.com/joedelta/iblog/B1331004611/C1696870512/E20070111210044/index.html
Another old mac classic was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dungeon_Revealed
In case dark castle isn't what you had played, this is also a very real possiblity.
the heli-pack was awesome
Holy shit i remember that game! I always played as the JONES!
I played an old adventure game that came with a shareware pack on the original Macintosh.
It was a vampire adventure game, and you had a certain number of moves (i.e. go east, etc.) you could make before it would hit midnight, and you would lose.
It actually had still frame graphics for each room, and the items were shown in the rooms. If you picked them up and put them down in a different room, they just appeared in the same position as they did in the original room.
There was a rope, a bucket and some other stuff. I remember going all the way "left" (maybe it was west?) and getting to the edge of a castle with a parapet. This was the first time I had ever heard/used that word, and I don't remember how it related.
Any chance that anyone can identify this game? I'd at least like to find out if it was as hard as I thought it was when I was little.
Edit: I also remember that there was a text interpreter which you used to control everything. It wasn't a point-and-click adventure, but older than that. Also in the set was Colossal Cave (no graphics, of course) which I enjoyed far more, because I was able to get further and it wasn't timed.
Looking at the screenshots of shadowgate show it not to apparently be the same game, but wow... it's close. It looks like the same engine or something like that. I wonder if there were some lesser-known and similar shareware ripoffs or something like that. Also, it doesn't look like Shadowgate had any Vampires, but instead was based upon destroying a Warlock. Regardless, thanks for the effort, and I'll keep looking
Edit: Although I don't remember there being as sophisticated a mouse interface on that game. Hmm... I may have to call my parents and see if they can find that box of old shareware disks, so they can list the names and I can look them all up.
Heh, I was actually responding to the original poster since I couldn't remember any old Mac games with vampires but if it spurred you in the right direction, awesome. I can't think of any other games on the engine but then again it's been a while.
Well I looked at other games on the MacVenture engine (the one used in Shadowgate) and none of them seem to fit your description.
Have you looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure ? That might have a lead or two.
Edit: Could it be Dracula's Castle? http://members.aol.com/AlStaff/GamesList.html#dracula
Or Dark Castle. A GIS brought that up.
Well, Dracula's Castle sounds like the right name, but I don't have a Mac or any... erm... setup for running Mac software on a PC. So, it's tricky to know for sure, since there aren't any screenshots. I'm thinking, without screenshots, that means it doesn't have any graphics, which would mean it isn't the same one. Ah well... I'll update this thread if and when I find it
Edit: Oh, and thanks!
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No problem. Best of luck in your search.
Was it Transylvania? One of the first adventure games I played as a kid:
Also, so many memories in this thread. Dark Castle was so awesome.
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I remember this game. If you ate too much, your stomach exploded.
Me too. I remember one called eidsee (or something like that) where you had to rescue king eidsee. There was another, i forget what it was called, but it was medieval, and you start off facing off against a vorpal knight.
Then there was some kind of mystery in a hotel (not dusk). I don't remember the name, but the bad guy was named gary.
Or, can someone tell me, does OSX play a lot of these old things very well? Would it make sense to try and get an old mac, or rely upon the emulation layer in OSX for stuff like text/still graphics adventures?
Transylvania looks like the game, visually, but I'm 99% sure that it didn't start off like that. Maybe it's like SCUMM games, in that there was one major engine, and many things used it. Makes sense
I just want someone to remember the game where there was a castle "parapet," and go "oh, I know that one, I also learned that word that way when I was younger."