The Dark Castle games are what I intend to try first when I get BasiliskII[0] set up on Playstation Vita.

[0]https://github.com/meetpatty/basiliskii/releases

I ran into Jonathan Gay at CGDC, and upon realizing who he was, I squatted down, raised up my arms up above my head, flapped my hands, and chanted "Nya nya nya nya nya!"

Dark Castle was so cool, I totally forgave him for writing Flash.

TIL the author of Dark Castle went on to write Flash. (Didn't it start out as some Macromedia thing?)

Jonathan Gay [1] and Charlie Jackson [2] founded FutureWave Software [3], and developed a drawing program called "SmartSketch", to which they added animation features and renamed "FutureSplash Animator" to challenge Macromedia Shockwave [4], which Macromedia (nee "Macromind") then bought and renamed "Macromedia Flash".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gay

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Jackson_(software)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureWave_Software

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave

wow, that's awesome!

Also, any old Dark Castle fans should note that "Return to Dark Castle" exists and was finally released a few years ago https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/return-to-dark-castle/id4107... (possibly the longest wait for a game sequel ever?)

That is the second sequel. The first one was Beyond Dark Castle, a truly excellent game.

Ah good point. Yeah, finished both of those back in the day.

Part of me wants to download and play that, but another part is afraid. Games were hard back then, and Dark Castle was brutal! I can still hear that weird yodel you make after a non-fatal fall almost 30 years later.