The Wizard's Castle

Description

A long time ago, the great wizard Zot forged an orb of power. He soon vanished, leaving behind a vast castle filled with monsters, traps, and great treasures including the orb of power. You play the part of a bold adventurer in search of the orb of power and whatever other treasures you can make it out of the castle with.

Gameplay is similar to a text adventure game. Simple commands are used to move from room to room, consult a map, or look around. Many times though you need only choose from a several options for the current situation, such as during battles. There are vendors you can trade with, mystical pools which can give or take away power, warps to far parts of the castle, numerous monsters to fight and assorted treasures to find.

The Wizard's Castle was originally written for the Exidy Sorcerer and later ported to the IBM PC.

Alternate Titles

• "The Orb of Zot" -- Alternate pre-release title.
• "Temple of Loth" -- Alternate pre-release title.
• "Hobbit Adventure" -- HP-41 port title

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User Reviews

Interesting strategy/adventure/rpg mix, simple but addictive	DOS	General Error (3821)
The first RPG running on DOS is a solid one.	DOS	Nélio RC (532)

The Press Says

Abandonia

DOS

Oct 16, 2009

3 out of 5

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Trivia

Since this game was written in BASIC and had its source code published, it has enjoyed all sorts of conversions to niche systems and similar languages over its long lifespan, including one for the Sharp MZ-700, Adam Biltcliffe's version in Z-code, an adaptation to Cambridge Z88 BBC BASIC by C.L. Fenn, and ports to the HP-41, TI-83 and TI-89 scientific calculators by Dejan Ristanovic, Raymond Mullikin and Alex Morrise, repectively.