Castle Shadowgate - A port of the Adventure Horror game 'Shadow Gate' for the C64

Gamers and retro gamers alike you are in for a serious treat today! As Shadowgate, which is an incredible adventure classic originally from 1987 by ICOM Simulations and released for the Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, DOS, Macintosh and NES, is now available to play on the Commodore 64 by Donnie Russell. As in the words of the creator "an official version was never released (or developed?) for the Commodore 64. This is a new port of the game, heavily based on the popular Nintendo Entertainment System version".

The original classic was a brilliant horror adventure game that really involved you in the dark story and contained some pretty horrific deathly sequences, especially if a puzzle wasn't done the correct way. Fast forward to today however and we have a new Castle Shadowgate to play; a port of this classic game which features multiple rooms to visit, dangerous choices, puzzles to solve and music throughout.

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12 comments:

  1. Anonymous21 January 2023 at 01:26

    This makes me happy

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  2. finn21 January 2023 at 11:14

    Fantastic port, I love it! The first two NacVenture games weren't that colourful unfortunately.

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  3. Anonymous21 January 2023 at 15:24

    Shadow Gate with Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego graphics. Awesome!

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  4. Anonymous21 January 2023 at 18:20

    can't wait to give this a go, I wonder if it includes the legendary Goblin room?

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    1. IndieRetroNews21 January 2023 at 18:38

      I read that as Legendary Robin Hood room... I think I need sleep :p

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  5. Anonymous22 January 2023 at 09:15

    Cool stuff

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  6. Penelope Jenga22 January 2023 at 09:40

    Amazing!! I have Shadowgate on Gameboy, such a great game. Well done Donnie, fantastic port <3

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  7. Anonymous22 January 2023 at 17:57

    yeah but where is the japanese dub for popolocrois aishsha?

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  8. Anonymous23 January 2023 at 02:28

    The official sequel to the NES Shadowgate was announced by the series creator. Beyond Shadowgate: https://www.zojoi.com/beyond-shadowgate/ - it’s based off of the original design and not related to the turbografx 16 version.

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  9. Anonymous23 January 2023 at 03:50

    The official sequel to the NES Shadowgate was announced by the series creator. His team is making Beyond Shadowgate from the original design documents. It’s on his official website and social media.

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    1. Penelope Jenga23 January 2023 at 19:57

      Thanks for this, I had no idea! It looks great.

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  10. Anonymous5 February 2023 at 18:12

    This Commodore 64 port is fantastic. Even better when you play the TRIAD version since they managed to squeeze the game down to fit on one diskside (the original was four), installed a faster loader and optionally support RAM expansion for a near cartride-experience.
    https://csdb.dk/release/?id=229039

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