Posts Tagged ‘Beyond Dark Castle’
For the last 6 weeks I’ve been posting about games I played as a child on our first family computer, the Mac Plus. Revisiting these games (using the Mini vMac emulator) has been full of tremendous joy, frustration and nostalgia. I’ve been struck by several things over the course of my adventures: 1) Just how [...]
The original Dark Castle was one of the first computer games I ever played. I must have been very young, and I remember very little about it save for the awesome splash screen featuring a dark castle, Dark Castle, lit up by flashes of lightning with the ominous strains of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor playing in the background. Its sequel, Beyond Dark Castle is the first game I remember getting really excited about. Before we bought a copy I was giddy with anticipation; I had heard there were lasers, a helicopter jetpack, and giant flaming eyeballs. Most amazing of all, you could save the game! No more starting from scratch every time you died.
