Castle Frankenstein
Epic Adventures 1983
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Melvyn E. Wright
- Systems:
- EPIC
- Platforms:
- BBC/Electron
- Entered by:
- dave, iamaran, Strident
- Added:
- 10-05-2010
- Edited:
- 31-01-2025
Synopsis
It is nearly twenty years since the Frankenstein Monster was last seen or heard of. He is thought to have been destroyed in a fire at the Castle, but recently a series of unsolved murders has taken place in the nearby village, and the people fear that the Monster is on the loose again.
They have chosen you as the one to put an end to the curse that has plagued them ever since Dr Frankenstein brought his hideous creation to life.
Are you brave enough to explore the Castle, with its many dark tunnels and secret passages, and search for the Monster?
Notes
Originally released for the BBC micro.
In 2022 Tim Ellis has produced a recreation of this game with his ItsDark system; which can be played online.
Resources (Upload file)
- Solution
- by ?
- Solution
- by Jonathan O
- Clue sheet
- by Dave Edwards
- Review
- by Jonathan O
- Further Info:
- Search at Complete BBC Games Archive
- Search at Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
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Although this is potentially quite a good game, it is marred by the long treks you have to make through locations which aren't even interestingly described.
This is an archetypal Epic Adventure game. They seemed to delight in interminable featureless corridors and tracks (there is a corridor containing twenty drab rooms near the beginning with nothing in any of them save the last one). A cynic might suggest that this was to bump up the room count which of course was a major selling point in the commercial heyday of text adventures. Me, I still hide my newly extracted molars under the pillow in the hope that the tooth fairy will place a shiny new sovereign there for me to delight at upon waking next morning.