Oprainfall writes: "Dave Marsh, the creator of Shadowgate, announced on the game’s Facebook page that he has recently regained rights to this and several other games from that era. What we are hearing now is that they will be remaking and releasing games like Shadowgate and Sherlock Holmes. Plans as of now are to release the games in sets of three."
Despite skyrocketing retro game prices the NES remains a deep trove of excellent games that, if you can avoid eBay sellers, are really quite affordable for new collectors.
I remember one of the levels in Retro City Rampage was paying homage to those seaweed segments. Not quite as hard but man did it bring back bad memories of my many deaths on that level. Never did beat that game without the Game Genie. Same with Battletoads. lol
The top-down view theme music was stuck in my head all day as a kid.
I'm not sure if I ever completed a no-damage seaweed run.
Double Dragon 2 is one of the best!! Several good games on this list! Shadowgate, P.O.W., and Klax. That is actually a super fun puzzle game! TMNT, I think every time after the seaweed, I only had like 1 Turtle left. lol
Shadowgate was how I got so familiar with Nintendo's helpline lol. But man did I love that game.
And wow I forgot all about P.O.W. until you mentioned it. Man being a kid with a NES really was the good ol days.
Best birthday ever: 15 and I got a Super Nintendo with Super Mario World, Pilot Wings and Street Fighter. (Spoiled rotten) And I saw Basic Instinct at the theater!
COG writes: Shadowgate VR: The Mines of Mythrok is a terrific three-dimensional translation of the original games’ flatscreen fantasy dungeon crawler.
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I effing love(d) Shadowgate! I played one on the Gameboy Color back in the day if I remember correctly.
The music reminded me of Deja Vu from the NES and...well...the game-play in general. It was such a fun game, I don't think I ever beat that game either. I'll have to give it a shot on an emulator (as I don't know where my cartridge has gone recently, but I do know it hasn't been sold or anything)
I want to see some of these games back in the day make a resurgence :) they are and have their own style of play, but hopefully it will fit enough people to warrant more variation as well :) [and now instead of having 8/16-bit like graphics we can have something that looks smoother and plays the same way, with more detail! :D]
i remember playing this and dying constantly.