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Now that's a platform game :ok:

Oh, the memories, the nostalgia...

This and the last two Commander Keen games were my entrance into PC gaming. Prio to that, I played Amiga and C64. And this game shows that gameplay conquers all.

I remember playing this game in a computer store 12 years ago. Aaaah, bliss.

Man, totally forgot about this game. Yes, played it back when playing platform games was normal. :)

Oh yes, the memories...

The EGA graphics and extremely simplistic physics and controls are terribly outdated for a 1991 game (feels like 1988 at best).

Other than that, it feels and plays remarkably like Xargon (same concept, same levels, same (only simpler) controls and color scheme, even same looking guy for pete's sake). Xargon was made by Epic megagames, which I beleive was either merged with or had some relation to Apogee, so this is probably a prequel to Xargon (which, releaed in 1993, had uncomparably better colors, animation, controls etc.

Jill of the Jungle also has similar features. And don't tell me all platformers of this type have the same look and feel, because there ARE archetypes of platformers in late 80's - early 90's, and Xargon is one of them (a different famous archetype, for example, is the one shared by The Jungle Book and The Lion King).

Is there any way of playing this without paying for it?
Every time I run it, it says it's not the full game, and I need to send off for the rest, and I can't play any of it?

As far as I know I put all three parts in the ZIP.

Check again.

LOL coolness

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Jimmy Bojangles @ Nov 10 2005, 07:39 PM) [snapback]178658[/snapback]</div>I downloaded the Dark Ages game as my old 5 1/4 floppy has no slot in my laptop - imagine that! I went to play the game and it flashed on the screen and then left.
Any suggestions for downloading and playing this game are appreciated. It was one of the first games I bought when I had my first PC.

PS: on the left side it says Newbee spammer - am not a spammer - whatever that is. Just want to play the game on my Tosh laptop.

Use DOSBox.

PS: "Newbee spammer" is just a rank on the forum. It will change as your postcount increases.

Somehow I don't think he's going to answer, anyway I keep getting a divide error in dosbox, any ideas?

That's weird tomf, it runs without error, ems true or false, CPU cycles extremely high or extremely low, mounted directly as C:, or CD to the folder ........no problems.
Bad download?
Bad extract?
Badmooded?

Heehee, I remember playing this one :P It's not one of my favorites, but I had a good time with it. I love how it shows an actual HEART next to your health bar instead of a cute little love heart, lol

The yellow bananna-spider things remind me of the "face suckers" from the Alien movies :confused:

I had this game as a kid, but only played it once or twice. Later on after my computer had been upgraded I went rifling through the games we had on diskettes and found it again. The name caught my eye and I remembered it had been fun to play. I slammed it into the drive only for it to fail to play, I was devastated I tried everything to get it to work. For years I would put it into the computer and try again when ever I felt like I could get it to work. Eventually I gave up, we moved onto Win 95 and computers much better then my early days.

By the time I found this site I had forgotten the name though the desire to play was still there. One day on my many days spent just browsing the games I found it. I downloaded it, set it up in Dosbox and played it.

Was it worth the wait....kinda. It wasn't how I remembered it, I had spent so long dreaming of it that it had changed in my head. But the game was still fun and the visuals were still all that I wanted from the game. Long story short worth a download, worth a play. But it isn't the best game ever.