Re: Beyond Dark Castle

[bloomer_au <bloomer@iprimus.com.au>]

Gamefaqs isn't very reliable for Apple II stuff and doesn't list the IIGS as a platform. About 12 years ago when CJC was in charge of the site, I suggested he add a specific Apple IIGS category, but he put it off for time+energy reasons, and they still don't have one today.

The thing about gamefaqs's Apple II database is that it became the source for the majority of other game data sites to rip their Apple II data from over the years -- meaning that any errors in that original database (most still there today) were propagated across the internet in general. So when you go to try to confirm something about an Apple II game by checking if the information is the same on two different sites, it usually is, only because the other sites are verbatim copies of site one :)

Unfortunately it remains that the only good Apple II gaming sites are devoted to the Apple II, which is not the case for many other platforms where you can get good info on tons of multi-platform sites.

- Wade