Wow, another epic classic! There was this long poem in the manual, and as there was none in the German manual, I translated it. That's how I boosted my English at the age of 13 - today I'm an English teacher :-D
I don't know why this game popped into my head after 20 years, but I'm glad to find this video. I remember my little brother and I trying desperately to complete it, but not being able to. Good to see others remember it fondly too. Wish this was an iPad app or something nowadays.
I can see why you weren't able to complete it. Props to the devs for cramming as much in there as they could, but it leads to more obtuseness and nonsensical actions over logical thinking. Who would think to check atop a chair, or fling oneself on a drawbridge? Even Myst suffered from that problem. But they had no comparison, and dev's learned from those mistakes in future designs.
This revolutionary freescape game from Domark in 1990 was a milestone in video/computer game history. Later it was ID's Wolfenstein 3D 1992, DOOM 1993, Quake 1996 and so on.
Man I was born the same year when the first video game "Pong" 1972 was the hottest thing on earth, and I'm very proud to have experienced the evolution of video/computer games over the many years. "Pong"1972 "Space Invaders" 1978 "Pac Man" 1980 and so on I'm a very lucky man :)
was habe ich das spiel geliebt :)) hab ich mit meiner tochter damals stundenlang gespielt. war total spannend und für die damalige zeit eine klasse grafik und musik ^^ vielen dank fürs hochladen
@TheConnyB I agree completely right up until 1:36 when the music starts and suddenly becomes a masterpiece. Up to that point it sounds like half of the tracks are missing. My favourite part is @ 3:40 to 4:10. Fantastic. If someone were to make a good heavy metal version of this song, I would weep with happiness.
Yeah, I was (one of the few people I knew who was) worried when the Playstation started using CD audio for games. Waverace, for example, just had techno music like you might find in music shop. Fortunately, the N64 was still cartridge based and had to stick to midi - I swear confinement breeds creativity. Diddy Kong Racing as well as Banjo Kazooie both had location specific midi music that would seamlessley transition when you moved to different area (the main song was the same but the...
..sounds coming from the actual hardware was so captivating and, as you say, it couldn't be reproduced on acoustic instruments. Skyrim has provided me with the finest music I've heard from a game in a long time but, again, it could be heard on a blockbuster film or a symphonic album. There's little way around this now, aside from modern retro games, but it's certainly no excuse to make only mood music and forget about memorably songs.
Fair enough. Super Mario Bros. was the very first game I played with Kid Icarus, The Legend of Zelda, and later SMB3 being the core of my NES experience. I was born in 85 so I'm of a different gaming generation to you, it seems that what we grew up on is what we love the most. That's a bit worrying when you think of the majority of today's games! Man, gaming years are like dog years - it makes me speak as if I'm an old man.
Yep, it plays this slowly on original hardware. Back in those days though, you were amazed to have 3D graphics on your 16-bit machine, and there weren't other comparable games that ran quicker :) It was a great title in it's day, and for fans at least, it is still quite playable and enjoyable :) I love the music, but it does get a tad hypnotic when finishing the game takes some time :)
I loved this game on the old C64, such great atmosphere which is sadly missing from a lot of games. Fantastic music too! Anyone remember going up to the horse, crouching, going underneath it and looking up? "UUUUURGH!!!!!"
Yes, I love it. I couldn't find an Atari-version on RUclips, but it would be interesting to compare the versions, cause they are so identical. Castle Master RULES, no matter version!
God that was a BIG game! Some of the puzzles / hiding places were clearly very unintuitive. Who on earth thought of climbing into the treasure chest?! lol Good work dude!
The uniqueness (and general high quality) of videogame music is one of the things I miss the most. Even new Mario and Zelda games tend to deliver if we're lucky to or three memorable tracks whereas in the past melody played a far greater role. Games have great sound and atmosphere and often great music in the way an action sequence might have a great soundtrack in a film but there seems to be far less memorable stuff.
8:55 - WTF, who would've EVER guessed that you could CATAPULT yourself over the wall with the freakin drawbridge?!?! I spent probably more hours playing this game between ages 8 to 11 than than I spent even SLEEPING, and had I not just watched this happen, I NEVER would've guessed you could do that.
I love these types of games. It may not seem like it but I grew up with this stuff. And I'm only 15, where we lived we weren't to advanced. SEGA, NINTENDO, DOS, And that big clunky crap in the closet.
My parents played that and me too at the age of 7. I never found the way to the last one or two keys and I still have some kind of nightmares from this game sometime 😅
instruments, voices, and melodies would differ as you travelled). The N64, while more realistic, gave us tons of memorable tracks - Goldeneye, Zelda OoT and Majora's Mask, Mario64, Banjo, to name some big ones. Skip forward to the Gamecube and the sound quality's vastly improved but the creativity is seeping away. To me, nothing will beat putting the Gameboy speaker to my ear as a little kid and listening to the Tetris high score/game over music. Something about the timbre of those chip..
Yeah, thank God for emulation, especially with Nintendo selling their old titles for download on the Wii and 3DS. Retro stuff, particularly 80s era, is pretty en vogue these days anyway so yeah at least the generation that are kids today are still at least aware of the stuff. Speaking of SMB, it's amazing how well that game stands the test of time.
LOL I still have the Amiga version of the 3D Construction Kit lying around bundled with a tutorial VHS. I guess the Freescape Vector-Graffic Engine was also used for this game too, since everything you see on screen, from the borders to the HUD can be edited with that software too and it looked pretty much the same. But I wasn't very talented with it, so I never got further than building simple objects, let alone whole sceneries or a complete game like this.
... Now this game... I never managed to finish this. I was too young to understand English and how to truly play this game. I just wandered around aimlessly. Needless to say, I usually died to the trap room. Nevertheless I liked this game. I'm... not sure if this counts as a dungeon crawler. If yes, then this was my first one.
If you turn around at the start theres a small hut you can run to, i know there is a small one you see in this video, but its WAYYYYYY off into the distance
I played this on Atari. The two versions (Amiga & Atari) are so amazingly identical, both musical & graphical. I could have sworn this IS the Atari version. Hm.. I start to doubt...Is this really Amiga?
Well I have to disagree with you there. If you mean spin offs, there have been plenty of those since the SNES era. If you mean recent games, well I haven't played much of the New Super Mario Bros series (I had the DS one and briefly played the one on the Wii) but the Galaxy series is pure excellence. I'd forgotten about SMG2's music - that's some of the best in recent years too but the game itself rivals SMB3 for my top spot. I can't really let SMB3 go as it's my childhood favourite but *wow*.
The Super Mario series is maybe the most sucessfull video game serie of all time, but not for me and plenty of others out there, I like the old classics like Defender 1980 and Tempest 1981 and later Out Run 1986 .And even trough the PC years it was Wolfenstein 3D , Quake and Half Life and later BioShock.
cant wait to see the secrets i have missed in this mysterious castle. i have never finished this game. ...how come i have never noticed the key in the wizard's hut :) look up/down can be controlled with keyboard too by the way.
@TheConnyB What ? it is the other way around ! nintendo had some good composers sure ! but they didn't come close to amiga legends like Chris hülsbeck (turrican 1&2&3 ,jim power), Barry Leitch (lotus turbo challenge 2,,supercars 2) And I don't know who but someone made at titus made also fanstactic music ! (titus the fox, prehistork) and a lot more ! Check them out ! The main reason that there isn't (but there is, A LOT) covers there is because the Amiga isn't popular in America, a shame too..
I never noticed those creepy eyes peering out of the windows either side of the game screen before! lol I was always too focused on the game I suppose.
I managed to finish this game without cheating, however I did need to look at a walkthrough to find out about the one treasure on the roof of the stables. I probably would have thought of closing the drawbridge while standing on it eventually, but while playing, it didn't occur that you'd have to do that and I was getting frustrated looking for the last one.
@TheConnyB Really? Cool! I spent hours and hours tracking in Octamed myself, good old times. If I ever get around to releasing it on Spotify, I'll give you a heads-up, maybe you'll check it out..? :) I still track music some times, but I use Renoise now. Never bothered to learn something completely new like Live og Reason :)
This is original game music from 1990 and GTA V and it's previous games seems to lie heavy on already made pop, rock,techno etc ya now know what I mean :)
may i say i find this game epic. Its great, i was so lightyears from solving it back then. But gosh, look at it and listen too it, its great :D too many hidden keys and stuff for me, no way :( great game though
They weren't that difficult to play. At least on the Amiga or a comparable system where it moved fairly fast. I remember mapping out the entire castle and the dungeons.
And the other aspect, if computer/video game music is an exact or mirror image of real life music the whole point is spoiled, computer/video games should sound like I just said, like computers :)
![Weird Dreams Longplay (Amiga) [QHD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/maVsU8Yyu4g/mqdefault.jpg)
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Wow, another epic classic! There was this long poem in the manual, and as there was none in the German manual, I translated it. That's how I boosted my English at the age of 13 - today I'm an English teacher :-D
Nice story! 👍
I don't know why this game popped into my head after 20 years, but I'm glad to find this video. I remember my little brother and I trying desperately to complete it, but not being able to. Good to see others remember it fondly too. Wish this was an iPad app or something nowadays.
iPad..bleugh, shit pile!
@@HuntersMoon78 Hey, whatever platform he owns!
I can see why you weren't able to complete it. Props to the devs for cramming as much in there as they could, but it leads to more obtuseness and nonsensical actions over logical thinking. Who would think to check atop a chair, or fling oneself on a drawbridge? Even Myst suffered from that problem. But they had no comparison, and dev's learned from those mistakes in future designs.
I was like 8 years old when I played this game the first time. Music still gives me the shivers :D
This revolutionary freescape game from Domark in 1990 was a milestone in video/computer game history. Later it was ID's Wolfenstein 3D 1992, DOOM 1993, Quake 1996 and so on.
The game music was unbelievable AWESOME at those epic golden years of gaming🎹🎸🎵🎼🎹📻🎶🎶💃🕺👏👏 👍👌
Fantastic sound track. Never played this game at all. The game that got away and forgotten till now. The great days of gaming.
Loved this game as a kid, despite never getting very far into it.
Theres that Best backgroundmusic ever!
This game used to scare the shit out of me when I was a little kid haha. I loved the music though.
A masterpiece both graphically and musically from the year 1990.
I absolutely loved this game when I was a child. I spent hours and hours trying to figure it out.
This music is just amazing!
That's why I came here again; have and will many times...
Man I was born the same year when the first video game "Pong" 1972 was the hottest thing on earth, and I'm very proud to have experienced the evolution of video/computer games over the many years. "Pong"1972 "Space Invaders" 1978 "Pac Man" 1980 and so on I'm a very lucky man :)
The music brings back some nice memories.
Awesome music is awesome
props to anyone who could play these old 3d games
I suppose you are right it does set the mood for the game.Never the less truly a masterpiece.
Love the music on this
Yeees!! the great music from the computer games from the 1990s, The Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and the uprising PC computer.
was habe ich das spiel geliebt :))
hab ich mit meiner tochter damals stundenlang gespielt.
war total spannend und für die damalige zeit eine klasse grafik und musik ^^
vielen dank fürs hochladen
Dann weiss deine Tochter jetzt welchen Spass die Kisten zu bringen haben!
Yes the old video game music is still valuable today!
I had a secret love for this gane on the Amiga.
@TheConnyB I agree completely right up until 1:36 when the music starts and suddenly becomes a masterpiece. Up to that point it sounds like half of the tracks are missing. My favourite part is @ 3:40 to 4:10. Fantastic. If someone were to make a good heavy metal version of this song, I would weep with happiness.
Your Dream come true: "FastLoaders" made one hell of a great cover track with cool guitar in it...
HOLY. SHIT. I LOVED THIS GAME. This game DEFINED some of the best childhood games I ever played. PURE CLASS.
Yeah, I was (one of the few people I knew who was) worried when the Playstation started using CD audio for games. Waverace, for example, just had techno music like you might find in music shop. Fortunately, the N64 was still cartridge based and had to stick to midi - I swear confinement breeds creativity. Diddy Kong Racing as well as Banjo Kazooie both had location specific midi music that would seamlessley transition when you moved to different area (the main song was the same but the...
..sounds coming from the actual hardware was so captivating and, as you say, it couldn't be reproduced on acoustic instruments.
Skyrim has provided me with the finest music I've heard from a game in a long time but, again, it could be heard on a blockbuster film or a symphonic album. There's little way around this now, aside from modern retro games, but it's certainly no excuse to make only mood music and forget about memorably songs.
Fair enough. Super Mario Bros. was the very first game I played with Kid Icarus, The Legend of Zelda, and later SMB3 being the core of my NES experience. I was born in 85 so I'm of a different gaming generation to you, it seems that what we grew up on is what we love the most. That's a bit worrying when you think of the majority of today's games!
Man, gaming years are like dog years - it makes me speak as if I'm an old man.
Yep, it plays this slowly on original hardware. Back in those days though, you were amazed to have 3D graphics on your 16-bit machine, and there weren't other comparable games that ran quicker :) It was a great title in it's day, and for fans at least, it is still quite playable and enjoyable :) I love the music, but it does get a tad hypnotic when finishing the game takes some time :)
I loved this game on the old C64, such great atmosphere which is sadly missing from a lot of games. Fantastic music too!
Anyone remember going up to the horse, crouching, going underneath it and looking up?
"UUUUURGH!!!!!"
EPIC !!! Spent hours with that one.
Yes, I love it. I couldn't find an Atari-version on RUclips, but it would be interesting to compare the versions, cause they are so identical. Castle Master RULES, no matter version!
God that was a BIG game! Some of the puzzles / hiding places were clearly very unintuitive. Who on earth thought of climbing into the treasure chest?! lol
Good work dude!
Super Mario Bros NES from 1985 is probably the best known computer sound & music even for kids of today :)
The music is very good & special in this game from the year 1990.
Still have this on floppy disk. Simon Speers where are you now?
that demon at the end when he turns all balck and clear eyed? HOLY DIVER!
The uniqueness (and general high quality) of videogame music is one of the things I miss the most. Even new Mario and Zelda games tend to deliver if we're lucky to or three memorable tracks whereas in the past melody played a far greater role. Games have great sound and atmosphere and often great music in the way an action sequence might have a great soundtrack in a film but there seems to be far less memorable stuff.
Creepy yes. But highly atmospheric, it contributed a lot to the game and to understanding it better.
Used to love this when I was about 5. 12 years ago must find it out
Yes this IS from an Amiga computer. Just listen to the wonderful sound chip make you and I nostalgic.
And the music still beats most of todays games.
Ohh, right, Castle Master. Finally found it.
Castle Master from 1990 is perhaps an early inspirer of the groundbreaking game Wolfenstein 3D from 1992 the first true FPS game made.
8:55 - WTF, who would've EVER guessed that you could CATAPULT yourself over the wall with the freakin drawbridge?!?! I spent probably more hours playing this game between ages 8 to 11 than than I spent even SLEEPING, and had I not just watched this happen, I NEVER would've guessed you could do that.
I know of DRILLER and Castle master, what other kind games were around with vectorial graphics?
Darkside, Castle Master 2 and Total Eclipse
Awesome! This game looks pretty cool. I'd try it out...
I love these types of games. It may not seem like it but I grew up with this stuff.
And I'm only 15, where we lived we weren't to advanced.
SEGA, NINTENDO, DOS, And that big clunky crap in the closet.
i loved all Incentive games. BTW, mate, u forgot to enter the cupboard in the stores ;-)
I think it's an amazing 3d motor for the time
even the ZX Spectrum an run this game
My parents played that and me too at the age of 7. I never found the way to the last one or two keys and I still have some kind of nightmares from this game sometime 😅
That would be a nice homebrew project to undertake.
Thanks for posting this
I would love to see a remake of this and Driller in VR
instruments, voices, and melodies would differ as you travelled).
The N64, while more realistic, gave us tons of memorable tracks - Goldeneye, Zelda OoT and Majora's Mask, Mario64, Banjo, to name some big ones. Skip forward to the Gamecube and the sound quality's vastly improved but the creativity is seeping away.
To me, nothing will beat putting the Gameboy speaker to my ear as a little kid and listening to the Tetris high score/game over music. Something about the timbre of those chip..
Yeah, thank God for emulation, especially with Nintendo selling their old titles for download on the Wii and 3DS. Retro stuff, particularly 80s era, is pretty en vogue these days anyway so yeah at least the generation that are kids today are still at least aware of the stuff.
Speaking of SMB, it's amazing how well that game stands the test of time.
GLUG GLUG GLUG, CHOMP CHOMP AHH!
LOL
I still have the Amiga version of the 3D Construction Kit lying around bundled with a tutorial VHS.
I guess the Freescape Vector-Graffic Engine was also used for this game too, since everything you see on screen, from the borders to the HUD can be edited with that software too and it looked pretty much the same.
But I wasn't very talented with it, so I never got further than building simple objects, let alone whole sceneries or a complete game like this.
I remember an "edited" version of this song ended up in one of the Ready Robot Club disks.
Just finished the game today without any hints. You missed one small treasure in the Priest's Hole room.
This music shit me up something rotten when I was a kid
A classic "Freescape" game from 1990.
... Now this game... I never managed to finish this. I was too young to understand English and how to truly play this game. I just wandered around aimlessly. Needless to say, I usually died to the trap room. Nevertheless I liked this game. I'm... not sure if this counts as a dungeon crawler. If yes, then this was my first one.
Makes me think of the Money for Nothing music video.
If these freescape games were never invented there wouldn't be no Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Unreal or Half Life today.
If you turn around at the start theres a small hut you can run to, i know there is a small one you see in this video, but its WAYYYYYY off into the distance
No, but both 3DCK and CM used the same Freescape engine : )
3DCK came 1 year after CM. Boy, it's 23 years ago. The memories.
mahtavaa! ei se ollutkaan bugipeli, en koskaan päässy totas läpi, kun jäin kuuntelemaan hyvää musaa!
Interesting. Now does this game really play this slowly or is this just sluggish emulation settings?
You know, I bet they could make it work with the SFX chip... I'd LOVE playing this on the SNES if they did!
I would have loved to see Castle Master on the Sega 32x with music by Matt Furniss!
Thanx for the memories!
The only part of this game that I didn't figure out on my own was standing on the drawbridge and throwing a rock to make it flip me over the wall.
Great music.
I played this on Atari. The two versions (Amiga & Atari) are so amazingly identical, both musical & graphical. I could have sworn this IS the Atari version. Hm.. I start to doubt...Is this really Amiga?
It looks like an inspiration for Portal with gun teleportation
Well I have to disagree with you there. If you mean spin offs, there have been plenty of those since the SNES era. If you mean recent games, well I haven't played much of the New Super Mario Bros series (I had the DS one and briefly played the one on the Wii) but the Galaxy series is pure excellence. I'd forgotten about SMG2's music - that's some of the best in recent years too but the game itself rivals SMB3 for my top spot. I can't really let SMB3 go as it's my childhood favourite but *wow*.
Without this game no Quake no Half Life no Bioshock!
Was this done with 3d construction kit?
The Super Mario series is maybe the most sucessfull video game serie of all time, but not for me and plenty of others out there, I like the old classics like Defender 1980 and Tempest 1981 and later Out Run 1986 .And even trough the PC years it was Wolfenstein 3D , Quake and Half Life and later BioShock.
Wow and I thought Ultima Underworld was revolutionary.
@kzbxvz actually everything can happen someone may had the idea in those years if the freescape games weren't here
cant wait to see the secrets i have missed in this mysterious castle. i have never finished this game.
...how come i have never noticed the key in the wizard's hut :)
look up/down can be controlled with keyboard too by the way.
magic game , magic music ,magic cubex55 ^_^
The game plays in glorious powerpoint frame rate.
+Noah LeFoot You should see the C64 version gameplay. This is supersmooth compared to that.
the C64 is 1MHz....what do you expect!
Has anyone ever attempted a MP3 (or even General MIDI) remix of the Castle Master theme? If so, links?
Wow thats amazing!Games really work wonders aye tho I must admit thepoem that came with this game was oddly creepy would't you agree
@TheConnyB What ? it is the other way around ! nintendo had some good composers sure ! but they didn't come close to amiga legends like Chris hülsbeck (turrican 1&2&3 ,jim power), Barry Leitch (lotus turbo challenge 2,,supercars 2)
And I don't know who but someone made at titus made also fanstactic music !
(titus the fox, prehistork) and a lot more ! Check them out !
The main reason that there isn't (but there is, A LOT) covers there is because the Amiga isn't popular in America, a shame too..
@TheConnyB Hur gammal är du?
I never noticed those creepy eyes peering out of the windows either side of the game screen before! lol I was always too focused on the game I suppose.
I managed to finish this game without cheating, however I did need to look at a walkthrough to find out about the one treasure on the roof of the stables. I probably would have thought of closing the drawbridge while standing on it eventually, but while playing, it didn't occur that you'd have to do that and I was getting frustrated looking for the last one.
Alas, you cannot swim!
@TheConnyB Really? Cool! I spent hours and hours tracking in Octamed myself, good old times. If I ever get around to releasing it on Spotify, I'll give you a heads-up, maybe you'll check it out..? :) I still track music some times, but I use Renoise now. Never bothered to learn something completely new like Live og Reason :)
i spent ages playing this on the spectrum...didnt have the nifty music and the spirits never moved. i never completed it either lol
This is original game music from 1990 and GTA V and it's previous games seems to lie heavy on already made pop, rock,techno etc ya now know what I mean :)
The Commodore Amiga is slightly superior in all ways than the Atari ST computer. But the ST has its MIDI ports and in built RF adapter :)
may i say i find this game epic. Its great, i was so lightyears from solving it back then. But gosh, look at it and listen too it, its great :D too many hidden keys and stuff for me, no way :( great game though
They weren't that difficult to play. At least on the Amiga or a comparable system where it moved fairly fast.
I remember mapping out the entire castle and the dungeons.
And the other aspect, if computer/video game music is an exact or mirror image of real life music the whole point is spoiled, computer/video games should sound like I just said, like computers :)
At the outside edge of the screen, the left tower has 2 flashing dots in the middle window. Anyone know what they are or are for?
Gary190tube animated eyes to give the background some life
nice :) I remember from the msdos version it had a different ending, i did captured it but lost it..
We need a VR version NOWWWW!!!!!