Castle Adventure (DOS)

Castle Adventure

Platform: DOS Year: 1984 Developer: Kevin Bales Online: Download

Castle Adventure is a home-brew text-based action adventure game where you are trapped in a deserted castle and must explore the castle in order to find a way out. The game kind of looks like Rouge or Kroz, but it's quite different in play style. Movement uses the arrow keys, and brief actions are typed into the parser like "Look Gate."

The game is one of the earliest examples of the pay-what-you-can model, as the creator Kevin Bales released the full game for free and just asked for donations. Unfortunately, this led to shady companies like Keypunch Software changing the title to "Golden Wombat" and selling it without Bales's permission.

Screenshots

The title screen. The game play instructions. How did you get trapped in this castle in the first place? Your snake fangs are no match for my antique sword blade! I hate it when demons try to usurp the throne! Couldn't quite make it. Notice the typo?

Music

VGMPF Album Art

The game only has a couple brief PC speaker jingles. Sound effects come from various blips and beeps as you interact with the castle.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
01	Castle Adventure Theme	Kevin Bales	0:06		Download
02	Harp	Kevin Bales	0:01		Download
03	Perfect Ending	Kevin Bales	0:04		Download

Credits

• Ripper: TheAlmightyGuru
• Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
• Game Credits:
  • Developer: Kevin Bales

(Source: Game's text file.)

Game Rip

Format	Download
	Download (Info)

Castle Adventure was programmed in GW-BASIC and the music and sound effects use the Microsoft BASIC MML, a type of Music Macro Language. It was ripped by pulling the string data out of the Castle.exe file and storing it into a new GW-BASIC file. It was then executed in DOS Box and recorded.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

(No source - Game doesn't have audio setup.)

Releases

USA Title: Castle Adventure Platform: DOS Released: 1984-??-?? Publisher: Kevin Bales

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/castle-adventure - MobyGames.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Adventure - Wikipedia.
• thealmightyguru.com/Reviews/CastleAdventure - Fan site.