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![]() I played a Commodore 64 version of Castle Dracula. The original BASIC game was published in CLOAD magazine, later distributed commercially by Microdeal and much later received further porting attention to other systems. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Comments on this reviewPrevious | << 1 >> | Next Strident, July 9, 2023 - Reply Is there actually any evidence to show this was published in CLOAD initially? The first four were but there doesn't seem to be any references to this one. Wade Clarke, July 10, 2023 - Reply I was going off this blog post by jgerrie, who last edited the IFDB page about the game: https://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2017/03/retrochallenge-2017-microdeals-five.html The relevant sentence said: "In looking into it further I discovered that many of them had been published first in CLOAD Magazine and were only later licensed and distributed by Microdeal and numbered as follows: 1: Mansion, 2: Jerusalem, 3: Williamsburg, 4: Ultimate, 5: Castle Dracula" I interpreted that as saying the numbered Microdeal ones were a subset of the CLOAD magazine ones. But deep down, the sentence is ambiguous. Strident, July 10, 2023 - Reply Thanks for the reply. I thought I'd ask in case you had any other sources that we've not previously come across. Although the five games are positioned in a Microdeal "series", not all the games were originally from CLOAD.. Mansion was published by the sister-publication Chromasette. We're still looking for the original source of Castle Dracula at this point in time. At the moment it's down as a Microdeal original production; released officially for C16 and Enterprise. I don't know how accurate that later C64 port is. |