- Castle Adventure
Infobox Software
name = "Castle Adventure"
caption = "Castle Adventure" start-up screen.
developer = Kevin Bales
latest_release_version = ?
latest_release_date = vgy|1984
operating_system = DOS
genre =Adventure game
license =Shareware "Castle Adventure" is an
adventure game designed by Kevin Bales and originally released in vgy|1984. It was also illegally included in Keypunch's "Swords and Sorcery" under the title "Golden Wombat".cite web
url = http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=3953
title = "Castle Adventure"
work = Home of the Underdogs
accessdate = 2006-06-12] It is compiled fromMicrosoft BASIC ; however the source has never been released.tory
"Castle Adventure" is a
dungeon crawl with littleback-story . The second screen of the game displays, “You are trapped in a deserted castle and you must escape. It is rumored that the castle is full of treasures. Can you find them all?”Gameplay
The player interacts with the environment through a mix of keyboard controls and a
text parser . Items visible on the screen can be picked up by guiding the adventurer over them. For items not on the screen, the player needs to type commands such as: get diamond.In order to defend against and defeat monsters, the adventurer must possess a sword. Fighting in "Castle Adventure" consists of directing the adventurer into a monster. Though it is not visibly recorded, combatants can sustain only a finite amount of damage, after which either the monster or the adventurer dies (as appropriate).
To complete the game, the adventurer must open a gate in the room from which the game begins, freeing him from the castle.
References
ee also
* "Rogue"
External links
* [http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Reviews/CastleAdventure/ The Key to the Castle] — a "Castle Adventure" fansite
* [http://www.64kpixels.net/castle Castle Adventure maps] - Maps of all the rooms in the castle.
*moby game|id=/dos/castle-adventure
* [http://ascii.classicgaming.gamespy.com/featgame_files/castle/castle.html Classic Gaming at Gamespy]
* [http://members.lycos.co.uk/dlharmon/games/?gid=11 "Castle Adventure"] — a modern clone
* [http://seed7.sourceforge.net/scrshots/castle.htm "Castle"] - a modernizedopen source version written in Seed7
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