Radical Castle

Radical Castle is a point-and-click adventure game released for Macintosh in 1986, developed in World Builder and distributed as shareware by Christopher Kent Wigginton.^[2]

Radical Castle
Opening title screenshot
Publisher	None
Designer	Christopher Kent Wigginton[1]
Engine	World Builder
Platform	Macintosh
Release	1986
Genre	Adventure game
Mode	Single player

Players assume the role of the 'Squire', who after mistaking the princess for a serving wench, is given a choice by the King between death and a quest to recover an oracle stolen by a wizard. At one point of the game an area identical to the opening screen of Enchanted Scepters is shown; if the player chooses to go forward a prompt is given encouraging the player to purchase Enchanted Scepters from Silicon Beach Software.

The game was distributed on magazine shareware collection disks, Macintosh user group mail-outs, and pre-Internet online services. Gaming historian Richard Moss described it as a standout amongst early World Builder games, popular with players due to its Monty Python-esque humor.^[3]

At the height of its popularity the game made the top 100 downloads on GEnie.^[1] It can be played on a modern computer using Mini vMac. Macscene.net featured it as their "Retro game of the week" in August 2010. The review praised the games visuals, sound effects and storyline.^[4] MacUser cited Radical Castle as an example of World Builder's "ability to allow authors to design commercial-quality adventure games."^[2] In 1987, Macworld selected Radical Castle as a runner-up to Deep Angst as the best World Builder game.^[5]