1991 · Bright Software · Action · Action-adventure

GATE

Gate is an action-adventure game for the Macintosh. It blends action, adventure, and brain-teasing challenges into an addictive fast-action game with smooth animation, exciting music and sound effects. Escape the castle's prison, battle enemies, solve puzzles, and defeat your captor to restore peace to the land.

Released: 1991
Platforms: Apple II Apple IIGS macOS
Genres: Action Action-adventure Adventure Dungeon crawl Fantasy Hack and slash Puzzle
Developers: Bright Software
Publishers: Toolbox Seven Hills Software
Modes: Single-player
Themes: Fantasy
Country: Switzerland
Composers: Jörg Kienzle, Yann le Tensorer

About

GATE is an action-adventure video game designed by Swiss programmers Henrik Gudat, Jörg Kienzle, and Yann Le Tensorer. The gameplay is comparable to Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda with a top-down view and a mixture of action, adventure, and puzzle solving.

The game was released for the Apple IIGS and the Macintosh. The Apple IIGS port supported multiple languages including English and French. Whilst the Macintosh variant could also support German or Kanji in addition to English and French from the original Apple IIGS port.

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

The player is a warrior who has been taken prisoner by Darg, the Firemaster, who is spreading terror on Divesia, the country where the game takes place. He has been thrown into the castle's prison. The goal of his mission is to find Darg and defeat him in a duel to restore peace to Divesia.

Reception

GATE was highlighted as the Editor's Choice for December 1991, in the inCider/A+ magazine. The editors classify it as "exciting" and "addictive," adding that "the graphics images are colorful and quick; the music is bright and moves the action along."

The game was reviewed in the January/February 1995 issue of II Alive magazine by Larry L. Melton in the "Test Drives" column. The reviewer gave the game 3 out of 4 stars.