Editor's take: Retro gaming enthusiasts' adept fortunes are spilling over into 2022 with the recent release of a long-forgotten game for the original PlayStation. Fifty-fifty in its unfinished country, Magic Castle looks very impressive and could accept made serious waves dorsum in the belatedly 90s had it made it to market.

Equally the story goes, Magic Castle was created by two independent developers in the late 90s using the Net Yaroze platform, a development kit for the original PlayStation.

The goal with Magic Castle was to "create a rogue-like game in 3D that could be played any number of times." It features iv playable character classes – knight, magician, archer and fighter – and tasks players with progressing through 20 castle floors.

(A Sony Net Yaroze evolution kit.)

After viii months of grinding, the duo shopped it effectually and while Sony expressed enthusiasm, they were more often than not interested in acquiring the developers to work on a different project.

The team declined, Magic Castle was shelved, and eventually, the individual devs went their separate ways.

Ane of the game's creators, who goes by the name PIROWO, recently rediscovered the unfinished project and decided to bring it up to speed.

The game is generally complete at this stage, just missing four-actor support and a Japanese translation. It has since been released on the Internet for all to savour. You can grab a re-create of the game and its instruction manual over on the Internet Archive.

An updated version, maybe with some of the aforementioned content, is listed as "coming presently."

Paradigm courtesy Wikipedia