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Dark Ages
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Official freeware Platformer 1991 Shareware

Dark Ages

Todd Replogle's 1991 fantasy platformer for Apogee, made just before he co-created Duke Nukem.

A fantasy action platformer: fight your way through a world of monsters, traps and hidden treasures across three episodes.

Released as freeware by Apogee / 3D Realms in March 2009.

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About the game

It is a scrolling platform game with 16-colour EGA graphics, from the same year Commander Keen made that style popular on the PC.

Like most Apogee games of the time, the first episode was shared for free and the rest were sold by mail.

History

Created by Todd Replogle and published by Apogee in 1991 as shareware.

Apogee released it as freeware in March 2009.

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Ways to play

3D Realms Official freeware release, runs in DOSBox
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Extras

Only official, legal extras. We never link to scanned manuals or unofficial downloads.

Getting it running Any modern computer, using the free DOSBox emulator. Our Emulators page lists the best free, legal tools for every system. See emulators
More from Todd Replogle See every Todd Replogle game in the library. Games by Todd Replogle
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