Dark Castle

For other uses, see Dark Castle (band) and Dark Castle Entertainment.
Dark Castle
DeveloperSilicon Beach Software
DesignersMark Stephen Pierce
Jonathan Gay
PlatformsMacintosh, Amiga, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Genesis, Commodore 64, CD-i
Release
List
  • Macintosh
    • WW: 1986
    PC, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST
    • WW: 1987
    Apple IIGS
    • WW: 1989
    Sega Genesis
    • WW: 1991
    CD-i
    • WW: 1992
GenrePlatform
ModeSingle-player

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 puzzles.

A sequel, Beyond Dark Castle, was released in 1987. A second sequel, Return to Dark Castle, was developed by Super Happy Fun Fun, Inc. and released on the Mac App Store on March 14, 2008.

Ports to other platforms were also published by Three-Sixty Pacific and Electronic Arts for the SEGA Genesis. The series has sold over 1 million copies.

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