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Dark Castle

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…

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Genre
Platform
Publisher
Electronic Arts (Genesis)
Designers
Mark Stephen Pierce Jonathan Gay
Developers
Silicon Beach Software Artech Studios (Genesis)
Mode
Single-player
Platforms
Mac OS, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Apple IIGS, Genesis, CD-i

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Gameplay

Development

Ports and remakes

Reception

Legacy

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Dark Castle

Nodes52
Edges51
Triples130
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.038462
Components1

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Dark Castle

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related to Reception · 29
Dark Castle → Amiga, BYTE, CD-i, Compute, Computer Gaming World, Computers, Dark Castle's, Dragon, Fortunately, Game, Great, Hartley, He, I've, In, It, Its, Lode Runner, Macintosh, Macworld
related to Development · 19
Dark Castle → Adobe Director, After, Apple Lisa, Assembly Language, Dick Noel, Eric Zocher, Gay, Jon Gay, Mac, MacroMind, MacroMind's, Mark Pierce, Pascal, Pierce, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Beach, The, VideoWorks
related to Ports and remakes · 14
Dark Castle → Additionally, Amiga, An MS-DOS, Atari ST, Commodore, Due, John Romero, Lane Roathe, Macintosh, PC, The Apple IIGS, There, Three-Sixty Pacific, Versions
related to Beyond Dark Castle · 12
Dark Castle → Ante Chamber, As, Beyond Dark Castle, Black Knight, Black Knight's, Duncan, In, It, Players, The, These, To
related to Color Dark Castle · 12
Dark Castle → Additionally, Aldus, Color Dark Castle, Delta Tao Software, Fireball, Great Hall, In, Lava, Silicon Beach's, The, This, Water
related to Return to Dark Castle · 11
Dark Castle → According, Although, Black Knight, Bryant, Duncan, In, March, Return, Sculpt, Super Happy Fun Fun, The
related to Levels · 9
Dark Castle → Black Knight, Fireball, Further, Great Hall, Leftmost, Middle, Right, Shield, Trouble
Release · 6
Dark Castle → Mac OS.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output…, WW: 1986, WW: 1987, WW: 1989, WW: 1991, WW: 1992
related to Gameplay · 6
Dark Castle → Bach's Toccata, Duncan, Fugue, More, Movement, The
related to External links · 5
Dark Castle → Castle, From Super Happy Fun, FunDark Castle, Running Dark Castle, Sculpt

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castle dark game released black duncan knight version graphics sound macintosh also silicon pierce sequel door levels beyond return beach

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Dark CastleDesignersMark Stephen Pierce Jonathan Gay1.00infobox
Dark CastleDevelopersSilicon Beach Software Artech Studios (Genesis)1.00infobox
Dark CastleGenrePlatform1.00infobox
Dark CastleModeSingle-player1.00infobox
Dark CastlePlatformsMac OS, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Apple IIGS, Genesis, CD-i1.00infobox
Dark CastlePublisherElectronic Arts (Genesis)1.00infobox
Dark CastleReleaseMac OS.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output…1.00infobox
Dark CastleReleaseWW: 19861.00infobox
Dark CastleReleaseWW: 19871.00infobox
Dark CastleReleaseWW: 19891.00infobox
Dark CastleReleaseWW: 19911.00infobox
Dark CastleReleaseWW: 19921.00infobox
Dark Castleis a1986 platform game for Macintosh0.90text

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