Macintosh Garden - Jonathan Gay

Beyond Dark Castle

grawlix.computing — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:42:24 +0000

The sequel to Silicon Beach's legendary Dark Castle. Released shortly after the original, it turned out to be more of the same, but that's no criticism.

Fans of the series would have to wait another 20 years for a third installment, Return to Dark Castle. Available on the Apple App Store for $8.99 (as of 8/21/2013).

Banzai!

Maedi — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:27:51 +0000

Shoot the advancing tanks and soldiers with your mortar.

The commercial version (Airborne!) adds aerial enemies and an anti-aircraft gun.

Airborne!

Maedi — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:10:14 +0000

An army of paratroopers, tanks, and jets are arrayed against one guy in the corner with a couple of guns. How long can you stave off the inevitable? (Be sure you've got sound on if you want a chance against the jets.)

This was the first Mac game to make use of digitized sound, most famously a symphonic excerpt from Ride of the Valkyries over the title screen.

A free demo without any airborne enemies was distributed as Banzai!

Dark Castle

IIGS_User — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:38:14 +0000

Dark Castle is a 1986 computer game for the Macintosh published by Silicon Beach Software. It was designed and illustrated by Mark Pierce and programmed by Jonathan Gay.