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[Panthro]

The hold up is that it's a freeware game, and freeware games belong on Abandonia Reloaded. [http://www.reloaded.org]

After that, it would require a review, screenshots and other info to be uploaded to Reloaded. I'm sure you could inquire in their forums for more information.

Given how much AB and AR are reliant on volunteer work, I suppose the full answer will be "it'll be done when it's done!".

[TotalAnarchy]

Nah, not necessarily if it was commercial once. We just need a review for it, that's all. We can't upload a game without a review.

[The Fifth Horseman]

It was commercial, then released as public domain (sans the source code, I believe) around 1997 or so.

[Oskatat]

since it was paid first, its not entirely freeware. It is also, in game quality,some steps above what i saw in most games on reloaded. I also do not understand this distinction between abandonware and freeware too much since there are quite a few games on reloaded that also appear on abandonia. if there is doubt, why not make it available on both?

there should be plenty of people who an write a review. If needed, i could do so, though screenshots are a problem since i'm not on my own pc at any time

[imissmyrpg]

When I was about 8-10 my parents bought a CD with 300 games in it. Most of the games were demos and there was one RPG that I loved and played and finished so often that I finally got my mom to buy it through the mail. When I received it it came in a floppy disk and I played it A LOT until we moved and I lost it.

I have no idea what the game was called or the plot. I'm pretty sure it was turn based and most of it was in a dungeon. It also was set in Medieval times and I remember there was a text box at the bottom saying what I picked up and and stuff and when I died it would say "another one bites the dust..."

The graphics weren't good at all either, so I'm thinking the game might have been older than I was.

I'm sorry I don't have more info, I don't know an awful lot about gaming, but this game was a huge part of my childhood, and I have wondered about it for years.

Please help and thank you so much!

[The Fifth Horseman]

There are a few problems with this description.

To start with, you know when you were 10, but we don't. Specify the most recent year when that could have been and we've got somewhere to start (as in, we can then disregard any games released later).

Second, did it run in Windows (which version was that?) or DOS?

Third, what was the game's view? First-person, top-down, isometric?

Fourth, "not very good graphics" doesn't tell anyone here much. If you could remember if it used CGA (check the example screenshots), EGA (check the default palette) or VGA (ie definitely more than 16 color shades on screen at once and/or resolutions above 320x240) it could help quite a lot.

[Eagle of Fire]

Castle of the Winds.

[imissmyrpg]

Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire

Castle of the Winds.

Oh my god...you are my favorite person, seriously. If I could hug you I would and then I'd buy you a beer and we'd be best friends and I'd hook you up with all my hot girlfriends and you'd really like one of them and get married and then we'd be next door neighbors in the suburbs and have BBQ's and I'd always make sure to bring your favorite dish at those BBQ's and our kids would have playdates and when I die you will have inherited my Corvette.


you have reunited me with a game that was such a big part of my childhood. I remember it so fondly and used to search dilligently for similar games just to replicate that feeling. Nothing was quite the same as this. Perhaps it was just my childish naivete or maybe it was something special but if games and humans had soulmates, this game was my One True Love

[Eagle of Fire]

Hey, don't worry about it. I'm just good like that.

[marko river]

It's already approved here

It is now released for free by its creator Rick Saada

One guy said he will submit reviews but he never showed up again. I wanted to review this for MUs and probably will since it doesn't look like this guy will show up soon...