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God dammit!
I haven't played this game for almost 20 years... and I still remember most of it.
Too bad I'd forgotten about that trap in that tunnel though... still, 1250 points ain't bad for a first try.

Now, if I just can remember how to make the fairies happy and where the hell that secret room is...




BTW, about the save games:
The save games get's corrupted by default, prolly some bug in the saving process.
And (AFAIK) if you manage to load a saved game, you most likely end up getting killed by "Angry Demon 34" anyways.

Ha! I got a finally got perfect score! :brain:

Seriously, how stupid was I as a kid? I seem to remember spending almost an whole summer trying to beat this game. To be fair, I was only about 6 or 7 years at the time and hadn't learned a single word english (except for "Police" and "Hands up!", but those doesn't really count) before I started playing the game, but, still!?

Never the less, this was a great trip down memory lane.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Connected at 1200 @ Jun 19 2006, 07:14 PM) [snapback]237919[/snapback]</div>

Frustrating! No one posted the solution yet!

I am stuck at what to do at the winding passage that floods. Something about the flask perhaps?
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You'll need the necklace off the statue on the second floor to stop the passage flooding. Then you need to open the secret passage in the tunnel (WAVE WAND???). I think that gets you to the King's sceptre which you can then take to the front gate and wave to open the gate. This will win you the game.

If you do a LOOK NECKLACE, it says something like "Protection from traps"

It's been 15 years since I've played it so my memory is dim.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Jan 16 2006, 08:13 PM) [snapback]197863[/snapback]</div>

I did get the fairies and the vampire out of the way, found almost all items except:
-huge gem
-crystal ball
and I don't know how to get in the wizards secret chamber.

Does anyone have tips
and how can you get the full points, because you can't get all items
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I have only played this a very short while, but when you stand on the balcony, and write LOOK GARDENS you see the gem down in the fountain....

Ok, I finished it. The easiest way to do it is to just stay clear of ALL the monsters. You need the following to complete the game
- Magic wand
- Lamp
- key (get it from kings desk)
(maybe the necklace from the statue on 1st floor)

and that's it. You gotta unlock the locked door, go into the "winding passage", then "WAVE WAND" and go into the secret room to find a scepter. Go back to where you started, and "WAVE SCEPTER" and it's finished, but with awful low score.

No need to finish the game to get a high score, though. And if you don't kill a few monsters, your score will still be low. I collected all the treasure I could remember, and left all monsters alive, and ended up with 700 points. Another time, I died, but had killed a lot in addition to gathering treasure, and got 1150 points, which is my high score.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Paige @ Feb 19 2006, 01:58 AM) [snapback]208470[/snapback]</div>

I played this game for years and was never able to get quite 1500 points. I spent many a night as a child lying awake pondering those darn CHAINS attached to the dungeon wall. They "look magical," and every other item that looks magical has some secret purpose or opens to reveal a secret passage, etc. I must have taken every item in the castle into that dungeon room and waved it, rubbed it, "looked it," beaten it on the wall - all to no avail! Does anyone know if there even IS any secret here - or how else it's possible to get the full 1500 points?

And another question!! Sometimes the castle walls disintegrate and weird demons called "14" etc appear. Is this a bug in the programming, or is it caused by letting the evil magic out of the dungeon (not diligently locking the door behind you every time)?

And for those who say it's too easy to die, no way! You obviously came along a little too late, with too fast a computer! Back in the good ol' days, you could almost kill the snake without sword OR helmet!
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PAIGE!! Your post finally helped me find this game!! I lived with the same problem about the chains. I have been looking for this game for years as I played it as a child. I decided to do a google search this time with these chains. I typed in "look magical" and chains and castle game. Thank you Thank you for your post! I have a mac now and will have to figure out where to play this game on a PC or if I can use my mac...

Heather

BTW Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is a MUST as background music. Try it!

i used to love this game when i was younger!
but now every time i play it, it runs too fast. i've tried slowdown.exe and moslo, to no avail.

any ideas? when i walk into a room with a monster i'm killed after about a second.

Use dosbox in combination with D-Fend, set the cpu cycles to around 300. I've been playing it this afternoon and it works just like it did on my dad's old 8086

just finished the game with 1500 points.. 50 missing AAARGH