Shadowgate Nes Walkthrough

Shadowgate (NES). Welcome to the Castle Shadowgate. And graphics like those in the best interactive PC games, Shadowgate is the most challenging,.

Is a 1st-person adventure game initially released in 1987 for the Macintosh computer (but also ported to AppleIIGS, Amiga, PC, Atari, and Windows).Storyhas been sent by the wizard to destroy the, who lives in the. Along the way, he must assemble the in order to have a chance at defeating the evil wizard and the he plans to summon.ReleasesShadowgate has been released for Macintosh and Atari computer systems, but is perhaps best known for it's port on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Shadowgate was re-released for the Game Boy Color as.Shadowgate Classic for Windows 95 (and other OS) was an updated version made by Infinite Ventures. With updated graphics.

Largely based on the enhanced SVGA Windows 3.1 version (with a few new alterations).David Marsh, the creator of the game, plans on re-releasing it for the iOS/Android systems through his game company, Zojoi.Sequels and SpinoffsIt has a few sequels:, and, almost,. The story had a prequel in the form of a book, written by F.X.

Nine and included in the Worlds of Power book series.The game saw a remake and reimagining in the form of and which added new puzzles and changed the scripts.

SHADOWGATE DOS/WINDOWS WALKTHROUGHQuestions/Comments? Email me at doommaster1994@yahoo.comTable Of Contents1. Credits/Special Thanks1. IntroFirst it was Uninvited, then it was Deja Vu and now its this,Shadowgate. I thought I'd never complete this one but I did, thanks to a friendof mine. That's what this guide is for. This one is NOT for the NES version, ifyou are playing the NES version, this guide is a little compatible but this ismeant for any port that's not the NES and GameBoy Color version since theyfunction differently.2.

StoryWell I don't know the whole story but the main point is thatthis dark warlock is trying to release the biggest and baddest creature thathas ever existed: The Behemoth. If the Behemoth is set free, then the worldis dead, and just like many games, only YOU are the one who can stop it.3. ControlsIf this is your first time playing an Icom point and click game, in-game youwill see controls at the top. Here's what they do:Examine: Look at an object, person, etc.Open: Open a door, drawer, table, etc.Close: Close a door, drawer, table, etc.Speak: Talk to someone or something.Operate: Use one object on another.Go: Move through something.Hit: Punch or Hit something.Consume: Drink or eat something.4.

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My e-mail can belocated at the top but while you're still here, its doommaster1994@yahoo.comThanks!5. WalkthroughAt first you will get this text:Text:'Good morning. Welcome to Shadowgate.The last thing that you remember is standing before the wizard Lakmir as hegestured wildly and chanted in an archaic tounge. Now you find yourselfstaring at an entryway which lies at the edge of a forest. The Druid's wordsstill ring in your ears: 'Within the walls of the Castle Shadowgate lies yourquest. If the prophecies are true, the dreaded Warlock Lord will use his darkmagic to raise the Behemoth, the deadliest of the Titans, from the depths ofthe earth. You are the seed of prophecy, the last of the line of kings, andonly you can stop the Warlock Lord from darkening our world FOREVER.

Fare theewell.' 'You will be facing a door with a skull on top of it.

OPEN the skull and youwill find a key inside. Take the key and put it in your inventory.After you go in, you'll see a pair of eyes laugh at you saying:'That pitiful wizard Lakmir was a fool to send a buffoon like you to stop me.You will surely die!' We will make sure that's not true. Take the two torches. If you need to grab anitem later and you have too much stuff with you, then drop one of the torchesby dragging it onto the screen. If the game says your torch is starting to dimthen OPERATE the lit torch that's going out on an unused torch.

You can onlyuse a torch once. Anyway, OPERATE the key you got from the skull on the middledoor.

OPEN the door and GO through the door. You will see a torch with tworings around it, take it. You'll also see a book. OPEN the book and take thekey that's inside it. If one of your torches has gone out, OPERATE an unusedtorch on one of the candles.

GO back out into the hall. OPERATE the key youjust got on the door to the right now. OPEN the door and GO through the door.Take the sword and sling. Now GO through the middle door into the room withthe book again. At the end of the hall you'll see a rock. OPEN the rock andGO through the rock.

Take the silver arrow that's in the middle. Now OPERATEthe torch on the left. Do this by clicking OPERATE and double-click the torch.It will now open a secret passage. GO through the secret passage.

You will seetwo bridges. GO through the one on the left. The right one will break and willkill you.

Now after taking the left bridge, you will see a wraith. OPERATE atorch on the torch with the two rings around it. You will now see it burns agreen flame. OPERATE the green flame torch on the wraith. He will go away. Takethe cloak and OPERATE the cloak on Thyself (from now on we will call itYourself.) Now OPEN the door and go through.

This might sound weird but SPEAKto the rope and say Epor. That's Rope backwards by the way.

The rope will goup and you can climb up. If one of your torches is out, take another. Now GOup the rope. You will now be in a room with 3 mirrors. Take the broom on theleft and go backwards.

By quad-clicking the door on the bottom in your Exitsbox. You will now be at 6 coffins. Here's what all of them do:Closest Left Coffin: Screaming banshee (Just for fun, it doesn't do anything toyou but scare the crap out of you!)Middle Left Coffin: DO NOT OPEN! Green acid slime comes out. Only open if yougot the Goo-Gone bottle from the room with the rope.Farthest Left Coffin: Goes back to the room you were just in.Farthest Right Coffin: NothingMiddle Right Coffin: Bag with coinsClosest Right Coffin: This is the one you want. OPEN the coffin and there willbe a mummy. OPERATE the torch on the mummy.

You will see he left a sceptre.Take the sceptre. GO backwards and you will find yourself in a hall with twodoors.

OPEN the door to the right and GO through the door. OPEN the door atthe end of the cavern and GO through it. Take one of the rocks for the slingyou got.

You will see a hole that goes through the waterfall. Double click it.You will see a rock. HIT the rock and it will reveal a small leather bag. OPENthe bag and take the white, blue and red gem inside. Go back to where the twodoors were.

Now OPEN the left door and GO through the door. There will be ahole that you can put a gem in next to the door. OPERATE the white gem (Orlight blue gem for that matter) on the slot. You will then see an orb. Takethe orb, OPEN the door in front of you and GO through the door.

Make sure youdon't have too many items and take the shield, then the hammer and then thespear. Now hurry and exit the room. Now go back into the hall and go back intothe door on the right in the hall. OPERATE the orb on the water. Take the keythat the skeleton is holding.

Now try to take the orb and whoops! Its frozeninto the ice.

OPERATE one of your burning torches on the ice then take the orb.Go back into the hall now and GO through the middle door. Then go through thefarthest left coffin and you'll be back in the room with the three mirrors.OPERATE the Hammer you got on the middle mirror. There will be a locked doorbehind it. OPERATE the key you got from the skeleton in the water on the doorand you will unlock it. Now OPEN the door and GO through the door. OPEN thedoor in front of you to reveal a firedrake.

OPERATE the orb on the fire. Thefiredrake will disappear.

Now GO through the door. Try to cross the bridge anduh-oh!

OPERATE the spear you got on the troll. Now GO across thebridge only to find a cyclops. Make sure you put the rock in the sling (If youdidn't, OPERATE the rock on the sling). OPERATE the sling on the cyclops. Nowfinish the cyclops off by OPERATING the sword on him.

Now you will see a wellto your right. OPERATE the well and OPEN the bucket. Take the gauntlet. NowOPEN the door far ahead of you and GO through the door. You will now see 4doors in front of you (3 if you have been following this guide playing the NESversion).

Go through the closest left door. Take the book that's on the tablein the room and OPEN the table that the book was on. Take everything in thedrawer. If you can't carry anything else, drop the sword, sling, shield andhammer that you got earlier. Now you will see a bookcase with a slot that a gemcould fit in next to it. OPERATE the red gem on the slot.

The bookcase shouldslide over to reveal a secret room. GO through the secret passage. OPEN thescrolls you got in the table and find the scroll that says:'Lands under the heavens; the key to the world. Terra Terrakk.'

Now OPERATE that scroll on the globe. The globe will open revealing a key anda bottle. Take the key and leave the bottle behind. Now go back into the hall.Now GO into the farthest left room. You will see a cage. DO NOT OPEN the cage!Or else a mutant dog will come out and kill you. Instead, you will see a chainattached to the floor.

OPERATE the stone on the floor with the chain attached.It wll move up revealing a bottle. Take the bottle. Take the horseshoe as welland GO into the room that the horseshoe was on top of. You will see a fountain.OPERATE the gauntlet on yourself.

You should now be wearing the gauntlet. Takethe flute. OPERATE the flute on yourself as well. A hole in the tree shouldopen revealing a ring. Take the ring. Now go back into the hall. The room onthe right is useless so OPEN the door in front of you and GO through the door.Now OPERATE one of your lit torches on the rug (Noticing the lump on it).

Itwill now reveal a key. Take the key.

Now you should have three keys. There arethree doors in this room. Here's which key unlocks what door:Key In Table In Library: Upper Right DoorKey In Globe In Secret Room: Upper Left DoorKey Under Rug: Lower Middle DoorOPEN the upper right door and GO through the upper right door and you will seea sphinx. Don't hurt the sphinx or he will teleport you somewhere. You mustanswer his riddles.

Here are the ones that I have gotten and their answers. Ifyou have anymore, please tell me about them. I will credit you. He will giveyou a riddle when you try to go up the stairs:Riddle:'It has towns, but no houses; It has forests, but no trees; It has rivers, butno fish.'

Answer: Map on the wall in the library.Riddle 1:'If you look at me, I look at you. You look with eyes, but I've none but yourtwo. I speak with no voice when you ordain, for yours is the voice, my lipsopen in vain.' Answer: Mirror in banquet hall (Room you were just in).Riddle 2:'I at fires attend, am a kitchen friend; when my nose I blow, how the embersglow! When the wind compels, how my body swells.'

Answer: Bellows in secret room with globe with key inside it.Riddle 3:'First I was burnt, then I was beaten; then I was drowned, then I was piercedwith nails.' Answer: Horseshoe in the room with the cage with the mutated dog and bottle.Riddle 4:'Long neck and no hands, made of wood from a forest's nest; a hundred legs andI can't stand, against a wall I will rest.' Answer: Broom in the room with 3 mirrors.After correctly answering the sphinx's riddle (by dragging the item onto him),GO up the stairs. You will see a star on a map. Take the star, then OPERATEthe map it was on. The picture should move revealing a rod. Take the rod.

NowGO up the ladder. You will see a woman in chains with a golden blade next toher. OPERATE the silver arrow you got earlier in the game on the woman and lookwhat happens. She's a werewolf!

Looks like looks aren't always as they seem.Now GO back into the hall. Unlock the upper left door and GO through the door.First of all drop any items the sphinx asked for (Broom, map,horseshoe, bellows, whatever you didn't need to give the sphinx) and take thehorn. Try and take the horn and whoa! Its guarded by a hellhound! OPEN thebottle you got in the room with the horseshoe and OPERATE the opened bottle onthe dog.

The dog will now disappear. NOW you can take the horn.

Now GO up theladder. You will see a wyvern. OPERATE the star you got out of that map on thewyvern and it will die. Take the talisman on the pedestal and go back into thebanquet hall with the 3 doors.

Now OPEN the lower middle door. GO through thedoor. Now you will be in a hall with 2 doors. GO through the left door. Youwill now be outside.

OPERATE the rod that was behind that map with the star onthe holder. A hand will come out of the ground holding a wand.

Take the wandfor it and the hand will descend back into the ground. GO left and you willsee a bag and a pot of gold. OPEN the bag and take the large coin and one smallcoin. If you want you can take all the coins but the other two small coinsaren't required and just end up taking up more of your inventory space.

Now goback into the hall with the two doors. Take the right door. You will see askeleton on a chair.

That is Sir Doogan. OPERATE the sceptre you got from thecoffin with the mummy inside on the Sir Doogan. There will be a gold plate onthe right with a shield on it.

It will move up. Now there is a holeinside it.

OPERATE the ring on the hole. Now the chair with the skeleton willmove up. GO down the hole. There are two passages.

Take the passage in frontand you will see two gargoyles. Take the right passage and avoid the gargoyles.You will see a statue holding a glowing thing. OPERATE the glasses you got inthe table in the library on yourself. Now OPEN the book you also got in thelibrary and OPERATE the opened book on the statue.

It will move down and youcan go forward. You will see 3 switches. OPERATE the 3rd switch,2nd switch and third switch again. You will see the cage (or whatever it is)has opened up.

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Take the orb inside it. It will now close. Now we are going totake a LONG step back. GO back to where Sir Doogan is, then the banquet hall.Then keep going back until you get back into the room with the 3 mirrors. GOdown the trapdoor into the room with the rope in it. You will see an outline ofa door at the end of the hall.

Now OPERATE it. It will now open. GO through thedoor. You will now see a slot.

Put you last gem in it (Dark Blue Gem). You willnow see the wall move up revealing a wizard (Or Wizard's head in the Windowsversion.) He will leave you a scroll. Take the scroll. Now keep going backwardsuntil you get to the two bridges. Remove EVERYTHING (except the wand the handgave you) out of your inventory. Also keep a torch.

Now cross the bridge on theright and you will see a snake. OPERATE the wand you got from the hand on thesnake. It will turn into a staff. Take the staff and go back. Now you can makethe wand, the wand that can destroy the Behemoth!

OPERATE the blade you gotnear the woman who was really a werewolf on the staff, then OPERATE the orb yougot from the room with the switches on the staff. Now you can put everythingback into your inventory. GO past the left ladder. Then GO forward into theroom with the rope. GO up the rope. GO forward into the firedrake room.

GOforward and you be back at the bridge. Try to cross the bridge.

Itsour good ol' buddy the troll! OPEN the scroll the wizard gave you and OPERATEit on yourself.

You will be invisible. Now keep going forward until you arein the banquet hall. GO through the lower middle door. GO through the rightdoor.

GO down the hole. Now OPEN the last scroll you have andOPERATE it on one of the gargoyles. They will be blinded temporarily GO throughthe passage they are guarding quickly.

Now you will see a closed well. OPERATEthe lever on it to open it. Now OPERATE the large coin on the well. Now GO downthe well.

You will see a mallet and a gong. OPERATE the mallet on the gong.You will see a grim reaper looking guy on a raft. His name is Kros. OPERATEyour small coin on him. Now GO onto the raft that he is on.

Now you will bein a room with a huge skull on the left. OPERATE the talisman you got in theroom with the wyvern on the slot with the sword on top of it.

Now OPERATE thehorn you got from the hellhound. You will play the horn. Now the skull mouthwill drop. GO through the stone mouth. You will see the BehemothAND the warlock lord. Now let's take care of that beast and the warlock lordonce and for all!

OPERATE the staff with the blade and orb you attatched on theBehemoth. You've tooken care of the Behemoth AND the warlock lord, as theBehemoth takes the warlock lord with him! Now just sit back and watch theending of the game. You have officialy completed Shadowgatefor the PC, DOS, Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, etc. Whichever port you played!Treat yourself to some ice cream! Do anything to celebrate your victory!6.

FAQQ: What's the differences between ports for Shadowgate?A: Nothing except the graphics and sound effects. The NES version is the onlyversion of the game that is different from the others since it was made bya different developer (Seika).Q: What is your e-mail address if I need to contact you?A: My e-mail can be located at the top of this guide.Q: What versions of these games have you played?A: Just about all of them except for the C64 versions since they are hard toget running.Q: What emulators do you use for different ports of this game?A: For the Amiga version, I use WinUAE, for Atari ST, I use STeem, for theMS-DOS version, I use DOSBox. And for a Macintosh, well, I had an actualMac plus but it died only a few days after I bought it and I didn't haveShadowgate, only Uninvited and Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True!!Q: Have you done a video walkthrough or plan to do one?

If so, where can Iview it at?A: I have already done a playthrough of the Amiga and Windows version andI have videos of the MS-DOS version. You can view my video walkthroughby going to I'm stuck at (Put part you're stuck on here). What do I do?A: Read everything again for that part and make sure you have all of theitems required. If the problem continues, e-mail me.

My e-mail can belocated at the top of this guide.Q: Your guide sucks. Kill yourself now.A: Simply move on to another guide.

I'm sure there is some other guidethat will help you. Nobody forced you at gunpoint to view my guide.Q: Is there any music in the computer versions of this game?A: Yes, you will hear a song when you die or when you complete the game.7. Credits/Special ThanksSpecial Thanks goes to:Me: For making this guide.You: For taking your time to view this guide.And any site which posts this guide on their website.