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Genesis Dark Castle (USA) in 00:56.55 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq) & Joe Stanski.
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 2 MB, length: 01:51)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-02-05)
Read author's comments in submission #1439
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #757 (00:59.87)
Rating: 6.5 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
Dark Castle looks like a Genesis version of Donkey Kong. This new movie is three seconds faster than the previous version by Aqfaq.

Selected comments from Aqfaq:
I managed to skip most of the game, which is good because Dark Castle sucks.