Nov 24, 2019
Bruce May, Unreleased Magic Castle Game
In 1982 Bruce May created Magic Castle, a game for the Atari 800
computer. He finished the game but was unable to find a publisher
for it, so hardly anyone played it. In October 2019 he sent me
scans of his original documents regarding Magic Castle: his design
notes, and even rejection letters from the three companies that he
submitted the game to: Catalyst Technologies, Avalon Hill, and
Origin Systems. He hasn't been able to find the floppy disks with
the game, but he does have printouts of the source code
— which he also scanned and sent to me — so it could
potentially be resurrected by the Atari community.
This interview took place on October 13, 2019.
Bruce's
Magic Castle documents