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Question: you've been here before

spork — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:21:45 -0800

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.

By: Glow Bucket

Glow Bucket — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:20:14 -0800

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?

By: Glow Bucket

Glow Bucket — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:22:50 -0800

Could it have been Castle Adventure?

By: Glow Bucket

Glow Bucket — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:24:24 -0800

...which you could obtain here.

By: arha

arha — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:19:37 -0800

Sounds vaguely familiar. Could it be Eye of the Beholder?

By: cior

cior — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:13:08 -0800

Did you play it on an Atari? It sounds like Alternate Reality, to me.

By: PercussivePaul

PercussivePaul — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:55:41 -0800

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.