you've been here before

July 4, 2007 11:21 PM

What's the name of this computer game from the mid-late 1980s?

When I was a kid I played this game on the PC and all I remember is it took place in a castle (I think) and it was a maze and when you hit a brick wall and the words "you've been here before" pop up. Thanks.

posted by spork to computers & internet (6 comments total)

Was it a game with actual raphics or did it use ascii characters?

If it did use graphics, was it a top down view or something else?
posted by Glow Bucket at 12:20 AM on July 5, 2007

Could it have been Castle Adventure?
posted by Glow Bucket at 12:22 AM on July 5, 2007

...which you could obtain here.
posted by Glow Bucket at 12:24 AM on July 5, 2007 [1 favorite]

Sounds vaguely familiar. Could it be Eye of the Beholder?
posted by arha at 1:19 AM on July 5, 2007

Did you play it on an Atari? It sounds like Alternate Reality, to me.
posted by cior at 11:13 AM on July 5, 2007

OMG! Castle Adventure!
That made the rounds in Grade 3. It was the talk of the schoolyard among my friends for months. None of us could figure out how to beat it. We always got to the part with the winding passage and bam - you trigger the trap and it fills with water. Game over.

One of my friends said there's a secret passageway in one of the walls, and it takes you to a whole other maze and you get to fight a dragon and all kinds of awesome stuff. Turns out he was a bit of a compulsive liar.

Years later I played it again and beat it pretty much right away. I felt like an idiot for not figuring it out sooner. But I won't reveal the secret, in case anyone else here plans on playing.
posted by PercussivePaul at 11:55 AM on July 5, 2007