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Shadowgate
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Item Description
Keep an eye on your torch. In Shadowgate, the flame in your hand is your clock, your lifeline and your constant source of dread, because when the last torch gutters out you stumble in the dark and the adventure ends. That single rule sets the tone for one of the most memorable and merciless adventure games on the NES, a dark-fantasy puzzle box where nearly every wrong move is fatal and every death comes with a grimly funny line of text.
The wizard Lakmir has sent you, the last of a line of hero-kings, into Castle Shadowgate to stop the Warlock Lord before he can raise the Behemoth from the depths. Rather than steering a character around, you explore room by room from a first-person view, choosing commands like Look, Open, Take and Use and pointing them at the scene. A sword, a sling and other relics each have their exact moment, and the castle is packed with lethal surprises: a dragon's breath, a cracked mirror that opens onto outer space, creatures that punish curiosity. Death is part of the learning process, and the famous Reaper screen telling you it's a sad thing your adventures have ended here became a running joke among a whole generation of players.
Shadowgate began in 1987 as a black-and-white Macintosh game by ICOM Simulations, part of the MacVenture series created by Dave Marsh and Karl Roelofs. Kemco's 1989 NES conversion brought it into color and gave it a moody score by Hiroyuki Masuno that fans still hum, and its success led Kemco to port the other MacVentures, Déjà Vu and Uninvited, to the console as well.
The castle has never stopped calling players back. The game was followed by Beyond Shadowgate on the TurboGrafx-16 and Shadowgate 64 on the Nintendo 64, Marsh and Roelofs led a crowdfunded remake in 2014, and in 2024 they released a new Beyond Shadowgate built from their original 1990 design documents as a sequel to this very NES version. On a console best known for running and jumping, this is the cartridge that asked players to slow down, think hard and fear the dark.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1987
- Publisher
- Mindscape
- Developer
- ICOM Simulations
- Genre
- Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Thrust into the role of "The Seed of Prophecy," players travel deep into the living castle, in hopes of defeating the evil that dwells within – the dreaded Warlock Lord.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayShadowgate on NES
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