Gate Kanji

Gate (Kanji edition) is the multilingual release of Joerg Kienzle's 1993 action-adventure for the Macintosh. The player is a warrior thrown into the castle prison of Darg the Firemaster and must escape, battle enemies, solve puzzles, and defeat Darg in a duel to restore peace to the land of Divesia.

The Kanji edition

Two builds of Gate were distributed: a Western package (English, French, German) and this Kanji build, which adds full Japanese localization on top of the same three Western languages. The Kanji edition was the route through which Japanese-speaking Mac users met the game.

Action-adventure on a Quadra

Gate blends action, exploration, and brain-teasing puzzles with smooth animation, music, and sound effects. Kienzle wrote it in a mix of Think Pascal, Think C, and 680x0 assembly when the Macintosh Quadra was brand new, with graphics by Valerie Le Tensorer.

System requirements

Gate runs on a PowerMac or any 68k Mac with at least a 68020 processor, 4 MB of RAM, 4.5 MB of disk space, a 640x480 display in 256 colors or grays, and System 6.0.7 or later -- a wide compatibility envelope for its era.

Preservation

The game was later released into wider preservation by the author and is mirrored on Macintosh Garden and the Internet Archive. This entry tracks the gate-kanji.hqx Info-Mac submission of the multilingual build.