Return to Dark Castle is Now Out!

Pete Mortensen ()

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Just, um…21 years…after its predecessor, the long-anticipated “Return to Dark Castle” has finally been released for Mac OS X. This is some seriously old-school Mac gaming, stretching back to 1986 and the hey-day of WASD controls. I remember playing Dark Castle on a Mac SE FD/HD that I picked up from the local school district for a nominal fee. Truly innovative for its day, though Return to Dark Castle is all about staying true to the DNA. The screenshots look great, so if you’ve been itching to get some vintage exploration and adventuring on, get over to download a game more than two decades in the waiting.

Via Digg.

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Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete's particular Apple avocations are both around design--interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!

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  • http://closetfullofweasels.com Phil

    That’s pretty cool. I remember playing Dark Castle in college on my roomates Mac SE. Does anyone know if it’s a Universal Binary (doesn’t say on the page and all the specs mention PPC CPUs)?

  • http://web.mac.com/wilsonh Willo

    OMG. We played this for hours on an SE my freshman year of college. Maybe we were sophomores. Long before the LC came out.

  • http://www.perkiset.org/ perkiset

    It took me about a long time to put it all together, but I have all the pieces necessary to run the original Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle on any mac today, Intel or G. It’s a simple hard drive image and ROM interpreter much like MAME. Contact me at my forum, perkiset.org/forum/ if you’d like instructions or components/DL locations.

    Huzzah! Dark Castle lives! ::runs off to buy it now::

  • John

    WASD is still the basic setup for FPS’s….