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ANTIC Interview 375 - Bruce May, Unreleased Magic Castle Game ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast
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Bruce May, Unreleased Magic Castle Game
In 1982 Bruce May created Magic Castle, a game for the Atari 800 computer. He finished the game but was unable to find a publisher for it, so hardly anyone played it. In October 2019 he sent me scans of his original documents regarding Magic Castle: his design notes, and even rejection letters from the three companies that he submitted the game to: Catalyst Technologies, Avalon Hill, and Origin Systems. He hasn't been able to find the floppy disks with the game, but he does have printouts of the source code — which he also scanned and sent to me — so it could potentially be resurrected by the Atari community.
This interview took place on October 13, 2019.
Bruce's Magic Castle documents
Michael Sternberg got Magic Castle running again!
Bruce May, Unreleased Magic Castle Game
In 1982 Bruce May created Magic Castle, a game for the Atari 800 computer. He finished the game but was unable to find a publisher for it, so hardly anyone played it. In October 2019 he sent me scans of his original documents regarding Magic Castle: his design notes, and even rejection letters from the three companies that he submitted the game to: Catalyst Technologies, Avalon Hill, and Origin Systems. He hasn't been able to find the floppy disks with the game, but he does have printouts of the source code — which he also scanned and sent to me — so it could potentially be resurrected by the Atari community.
This interview took place on October 13, 2019.
Bruce's Magic Castle documents
Michael Sternberg got Magic Castle running again!
29 min