A classic "action adventure" game dating from the early Eighties for the
IBM PC. Written by
Kevin Bales. Similar to a crudely-graphically-represented
Zork/
Rogue hybrid, you have to explore the Castle collecting treasures and killing monsters. All the "art" is in monochrome 40-column
ASCII.
PC Speaker sound. It took me ages to complete this game (hey, I was a kid!) and I think I even mailed the author (now long since dead/retired/senile) for help near the end. I must have been really dumb. My copy is on the original
Shareware Catalogue yellow floppy disk
Adventures 1, now over 13 years old but still functional.
Now, thanks to the wonders of Unicode (OK, Ascii, whatever...) I present some of the cast of Castle Adventure:
♣ - the hero!
† - his trusty sword
¢ - his helmet (oo-er.)
∗ - the nasty spider