DEFENDER OF THE CROWN | Electronic Jewel of 1986 

More time loading than playing... All my childhood summarized there ;)

We got really good at reading books while we waited. Having played it recently on emulation, which cuts out the load times, I'm curious. Once it was loaded, you didn't need to load again during the game, did you? One thing that I hated about the Amstrad port is that it would load multiple times in a single turn of the game. UGH.

@@JonasRosenven having just done a play through of the Amstrad version without the benefit of fast load, I hear your pain! Through emulation, the C64 version is really fun!

Really fantastic for its time. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing! This channel is all about restoring sweet memories ;)

Many thanks my friend, that's really appreciated. When people love what you do, it's your best reward.

Thanks a lot!

I subscribe to every word.

@@RetroDream I found out the other day the rights to Cinemaware games have yet again for about the 5th time been sold to a company that seem to only do mobile games but they have said they want to make versions for consoles so may se a remake or something one day I do enjoy the Robin hood DOTC game. But id love a more in depth more story version of DOTC kind of make the game reach its triuue potential they wanted in 86 maybe one day

oh yes this one ;)

Many thanks for sharing your experience. It's good to know how different people were discovering the game.

This game is full of memories for so many people... Incredible. Thanks for sharing your own experience.

Good times indeed! Thanks man.

You're right, I'm too passionate to be good critic :) As for voice overs, are you sure you heard my actual voice yet? I'd be glad to do it myself, but I'd be getting endless complaints about my "French accent"...

@@RetroDream I must not have been aware that previous voices were also hired talent. :-O There is another retrocomputing channel on youtube where the producer has a french accent, but his videos are great and the accent is really no trouble at all. But if you are worried, I certainly won't "demand" you make videos a certain way. As long as you're having fun, that's the most important thing.

I also did not know thats not your real voice. :) It cannot have a worse accent than mine :) So you are from France?

@@RetroDream But you likely would call it a "Zee"X Spectrum. ;) I'm all for hearing the French accent. I think your passion is great and you're not likely blinded by nostalgia.

Thanks, pal. Just let me guess... you were more into cars races and sims stuff, right? ;)

Yes and i had no chanche back then to to play all the games of the 16bit era. I had neither an Atari St or Amiga nor 286. I started 1993 with a 386 with VGA games...

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, experience and projects! You're right, the atmosphere made 90% of this game, not the play itself. Such an awesome one... Still I argue the ST version, although inferior to the Amiga, was really really great especially for that time: you can say it was among the first set of games available on this machine.

Thanks a lot, sir, that's really appreciated.

Thanks for the info!

My name is pronounced as Kit Tee Why, but many say Kitty like a cat so Geoffrey and Jeffrey sounding same is confusing

Memories...

A big step forward from Seaquest in 1983 😄

Nobody can joust.

@@davidwright9166 My friend could win every single time. Amazed me. On Atari ST.

Sure did, many thanks!

Wait. You prefer the C64, DOS, NES, and even Macintosh ports over the Atari ST port and Amiga original? Why??!! I get that you like the increased difficulty of the ports, but the Atari ST had all the added parts (although the NES port added at least one extra scene, but I'm pretty sure Cinemaware didn't design the changes to that port) and was, along with the IIGS port, by far the closest in graphics to the Amiga original. Have you tried the IIGS port? It was the last port made, until the CDi and CDTV ports, which had the Amiga gameplay, AFAIK. However, the atmospheric experience is what makes this game, IMHO, not the gameplay, which, on any platform, is as thin as the former is meaty--although it is still fun. One of these days I'll finally get to my age-old backburner project, and add the missing aspects to the Amiga original. Or remake the game from scratch with the Amiga graphics and audio and the extra gameplay features. There a CDTV version, as well, which just adds a CD audio soundtrack instead of the Paula-based one, and a voiceover/narration. There's additionally a sequel for CDTV and Amiga CD32 (OCS graphics only--no AGA support), created solely by Jim Sachs, the graphic designer of the original. It's really an enhanced remake.

@@RetroDawn In terms of the versions I like to actually play, I think the Commodore 64 version, the Macintosh version, and the NES versions are my favorites. Atari ST is okay but there is a strange bug involving the catapults that I can't figure out. The Commodore Amiga version is absolutely brilliant, and if it were only about presentation, that game would win by a longshot. And it absolutely deserves great honor and respect for its role in video game history. But it is way too easy if you know how to play. It's a fun little diversion, but the other ones are my favorite ports. I was unable to play the Apple IIGS version on real hardware, and the emulation for that game wasn't good so I'm not sure I can speak to its quality. I decided not to do any sequels or remakes for my series, just that first sort of launch of the game and its ports. I mean, there was even a PS2 version and a Nintendo DS version, so I had to draw the line somewhere. 🙂

Yea ;)

Great idea

Yes definitely. There was also Barbarian from Psygnosis, not to mention Dungeon Master..