chou@husc2.UUCP (chou) (12/08/86)
I hope this is the right place to post this (you can all yell at me if it's not), but... I've spent the past several days (that's right, haven't eaten, slept, done any work...) playing a pre-release version of Silicon Beach's new game, Dark Castle. This game is >amazingNewsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Dark Castle game from Silicon Beach Summary: Great new game for the Mac! Sender: Luyen Chou Reply-To: chou@husc2.UUCP (luyen chou) Followup-To: Organization: Harvard University Science Center Keywords: I hope this is the right place to post this (you can all yell at me if it's not), but... I've spent the past several days (that's right, haven't eaten, slept, done any work...) playing a pre-release version of Silicon Beach's new game, Dark Castle. This game is >amazing<. It's loosely based on the video-disk game, Dragon's Lair, but it actually plays more like a much, much, much more interesting and improved version of Lode Runner, or Donkey Kong. The aim of the quest is to recover a magic shield and a fireball spell from a wizard, and then dethrone the evil knight (all the while dodging/killing/ outsmarting poisonous bats and rats, vultures, castle guards, floating eyeballs, dragons, and a host of other nasties). The animation is superb, and the action is hair-raising. What really makes the game outstanding though are the sound effects. They're all digitized and unbelievably believable (so to speak). In fact, the people down the hall came running into my room one evening wondering what the -blink- was going on. I had the Mac plugged into the stereo cranking away. From down the hall, all they could hear were these life-like grunts, screams, slashing whips and splashing water, punctuated by an occasional bar or two from the Bach D minor Toccata and Fugue. I can't imagine what they thought was going on in my bedroom. At any rate, check this program out. Even if you're not into games, I can't think of a better demonstration of the Mac's sound and graphic capabilities than letting this baby loose. --Luyen Chou The Core Corps Harvard University