Castlequest

aka: Castle Excellent

Moby ID: 20354

Released

November 1985 on PC-88

Credits

4 people

Releases by Date (by platform)

Publishers

Developers

ASCII Corporation

Moby Score

6.2

#19,143 of 23.5K

Critics

32% (4)

Players

(16)

Ranking

#551 on NES

Collected By

25 players

Genre: Action
Perspective: Side view
Visual: 2D scrolling
Gameplay: Arcade
Platform
Puzzle elements
Setting: Fantasy
Misc: Regional differences

Description

The puzzle and platform game Castle Excellent is a sequel to The Castle. In Castle Excellent you control a prince that has to save the princess again.

To find your princess you have to explore the castle, which has 100 different rooms. Each room is a puzzle on its own as you have to avoid enemy knights, fat Tiroler men, hazardous objects and have to use objects to get to the next door. In each room you have to collect keys and items like rings and gold bars. The keys may have different colors and only opens doors with the corresponding key color.

The main difference with the original The Castle game is that the castle rooms are completely redesigned and contain many new challenges. The game play has not changed.

Spellings

キャッスルエクセレント - Japanese spelling

Groups +

ASCII's Castle series

Screenshots

Promos

Credits (FM-7 version)

4 People

Copyright © 1984 by	Isao Yoshida
Labyrinth design (迷路作成)	Keisuke Iwakura (岩倉啓祐)
Packaging illustration (パッケージイラスト)	Märchen Maker (めるへんめーかー)
Manual illustration (マニュアルイラスト)	Michie Akabane (赤羽美智恵)

Reviews

Critics

Average score: 32% (based on 4 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.7 out of 5 (based on 16 ratings with 0 reviews)

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Trivia

Famicom save data support

In the original Famicom version, the game saved the player's progress provided they had either the Famicom Data Recorder, which records game data to audio cassettes, or the ASCII Turbofile, which saves game data to battery-backed RAM. Since neither of these peripherals were released outside Japan, non-Japanese versions did not support saving. However, The number of lives the player starts out with was increased from 4 to 50, among other differences.