Dark Ages
Dark Ages is a platform game written for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software. It was the first shareware game to feature support for the AdLib sound card. Dark Ages was distributed as shareware. It consists…
Dark Ages is a platform, released 31 December 1991 on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Dark Ages is
Dark Ages was released in 1991. It was published by Apogee Software. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player controls the prince and heir to the land’s greatest kingdom (referred to as the Great Kingdom). When the prince was a child, Garth, a power hungry wizard of immense power and greed, killed his father and took the throne. Rather than kill the prince he sent him to be raised by peasants, but even Garth’s evil magic could not foresee his mistake, since the very peasant he delivered him to was once the Kingdom’s greatest hero, and as the prince grew he was taught the ways of a master fighter. One of the things he learned well was how to use magic as a weapon. In the years after Garth’s conquest, the kingdom had fallen into ruin and despair, with no hope of returning to the times of…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Dark Ages launched on 31 December 1991, within three weeks of Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Baseball Stars 2 and Commander Keen in Keen Dreams.
Released around the same time: Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Baseball Stars 2, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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