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Dark Castle
''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. Plot When the evil Black Knight terrorizes the townspeople, Prince Duncan resolves to overthrow him. To accomplish this, he must navigate the four sections of the castle: Fireball, Shield, Trouble, and Black Knight. After collecting the Fireball and Shield, Dunca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silicon Beach Software
Silicon Beach Software, Inc. was an early American developer of software products for the Apple Macintosh, Macintosh personal computer. It was founded in San Diego, California, in 1984 by Charlie Jackson (software), Charlie Jackson and his wife Hallie. Jackson later co-founded FutureWave Software with Jonathan Gay. FutureWave produced the first version of what is now Adobe Flash. Although Silicon Beach Software began as a publisher of video game, game software, it also published what was called "productivity software" at the time. History Silicon Beach's best known "productivity software" product was SuperPaint (Macintosh), SuperPaint, a graphics program which combined features of Apple's MacDraw and MacPaint with several innovations of its own. SuperPaint2 and Digital Darkroom were the first programs on the Macintosh to offer a Plug-in (computing), plug-in architecture, allowing outside software developers to extend both programs' capabilities. Silicon Beach coined the term "plug- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |