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As a child I had a lot of fun playing The Castles of Doctor Creep on a friend's computer back in the 80s. We never made it through all of them so when Monty asked me if I was interested in doing a longplay for his C64 Gamevideo Archive I was quite intrigued and started with Sylvania. Trying to find my way through the ladder maze of this castle made me think of using maps to complete the castles. That turned out to be the right decision as I quickly realized when testing Callanwolde for a 2 player longplay which despite being number two on the list is one of the toughest. Since I couldn't find maps nor walkthroughs on the net I decided to make my own and - to justify the effort - also upload them so other people could benefit from my efforts.

What I did find (with a little digging) was a copy of Ed Hobbs' homepage who's done a PC remake of his game including an editor. Unfortunately the graphics are really ugly but the castle file descriptions (.cdc) used by the editor might help in developing a new one especially as the original file format appears to have been partially reverse engineered as a basis for the fanmade Dungeons of Doctor Creep. The info on latter page finally lead to an editor for Windows that I'm currently betatesting. Funny how that works cause after years of no developments there are also two remakes in the works one of which is publicly available. I guess it's safe to say we gonna see some new stuff in the future after all.

For the time being you should be busy completing the levels already available (which add up to a total of 358 rooms) especially as I didn't want to spoil the fun by going into detail on every castle. However, since this site's initial launch in August 2008 there've been several requests for longplays of all the castles and dungeons so I've included them too as Vice history files. I still think you should use them only when you're completely stuck or have finished a castle and wanna see how I dit it.