Castlemaze Adventure

Duckworth Home Computing 1983

Aka:: Castle Maze Adventure
Language:: English
Authors:: Peter Gerrard
Systems:: BASIC
Platforms:: Amstrad CPC , Atari 400/800, BBC/Electron , C64/128 , Dragon 32/64 , Oric/Atmos, Sharp MZ , Spectrum, VIC20
Genres:: Treasure hunt, Type-in
Related:: Exploring Adventures [1: Underground Adventure, 2: Castlemaze Adventure, 3: Tunnel Adventure]
Entered by:: Alastair, dave, Paul Ingerson, Strident
Added:: 10-05-2010
Edited:: 12-01-2022

Synopsis

Plot

You are in a forest. Your mission is to explore your surroundings and collect any valuables you find. Your journey will take you to an old castle, full of twisting and turning corridors, horrible sorcerers, and mysterious spiders. Will you unravel all the secrets of the castle, collect all the treasure, and escape alive?

Notes

The listing for this game may be found in the book series Exploring Adventures on the (name of a computer platform) by Peter Gerrard (there is one book per computer platform). As with the other two Exploring Adventures adventures, the main purpose of this game is to illustrate how to program your own adventure games in BASIC. Anyone who did not want to type in the games could instead buy the three games on a single cassette.

The game was later "reskinned" with an "African" theme, as Jungle Bunny.

The version of Castlemaze Adventure for the Sharp MZ-80K appears to be an unofficial port that can be found on software archives.

Steven C. Darnold's C64 version of this game formed part of his Castlemaze / Tunnelmaze / Valleymaze Adventure series.

There is an unofficial/uncredited Dutch version of the original game; called Cederick.