Castle Master - Amstrad CPC

Its real 3D woot! (lol). Quite basic of couse but back in 1990, lets not forget it took hours to calculate a single mandelbort image, so having acual moving "3D" with low framerate was quite something. This game also has the perfect amosphere, as a dark brutish castle with ghosts, bats and mice is kinda support the "rugged" (tho simple) design. Very little audio, but the audio is used quite effective (i still jump inside a bit every time i meet an enemy and the "alarm" goes off. Gameplay is mostly quite straight forward and you can complete the game slowly simply by being carefull, searching every room carefully (there is some hidden treasures i didnt pick up). What you are seen here is me going all out "speedy" so you can call it a speedrun if you will (even tho i didnt really need to enter the library or smithy .. but then again it would probably take similar time to get more strength from somewhere else). Then again you can call it a "longplay" as i do visit all the rooms that i know of. I apologise if its kinda a fast movie as i pretty much "run" all the time to keep things fast, but it makes things equally confusing with the low framerate. Feel free to ask about anything i do as it may not make sense without a bit of help. The overall trick here: i got all the keys first, just using cheese. I saved the "wizards hut" for last as when you drop down you get the "rev" potion that auto heals you for a good while and it make me able to go "rambo" on 2 and 3 floor (without having to run back to heal at the strength pot). Also makes it easier to do the drawbridge-to-church-fall-off-church acrobatics (really a strength-killer). Anyways, truely a great game in all.

By Incentive 1990

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Gaming

Tags:

• retro
• game
• amstrad
• cpc
• commodore
• spectrum

[retrocomputerkidkris]

i can remember havin this game it came with another game 

[CholoCPC]

@retrocomputerkidkris You might have gotten it with along with Castle Master 2 or with the "3D" compilation Virtual Worlds (Castle Master, Castle Master 2, Driller and Total Eclipse).

[Misel982001]

I had never seen that game! By the way, is it easy to contruct a game by using 3DConKit?

[CholoCPC]

@Misel982001 Well, i have never tried it myself, but using a "kit" must be much easier than having to program manually. Still, do remember that even tho its faster with a "kit" it is still a quite time consuming task (i recall from making some Doom Wad's with the DEU editor and it took ages to make anything).

[Hindleyak]

The 3D effects are fantastic! To think I wasted all my time on jeffing Galactic Plague.

[CholoCPC]

@Hindleyak Hehe! Yes, this game really show how fast amstrad games got better (well programmed) in just a really short time.

[retrocomputerkidkris]

@CholoCPC thats right m8y it was

[greatxerox]

nice play cholo. this game was in my memory^^ it was a original experience in 1990 :) nice review

[Jermyn78]

I remember this! In fact, I tried to copy it but it didn't work...atill this and Total Eclipse were class! Hell, even Total Eclipse II ruled!

[CholoCPC]

@Metr81 Indeed, even tho the framerate is a bit low its still an amazing game that really push the machine to the max.

[CholoCPC]

@Xyphoe Thanks! ill have look into Total Eclipse i think i recall it had quite nice moody setting too.