Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight Longplay (Amiga) [QHD] 

The Dark Souls of the 90s. Loved this game.

We need a remake of moonstone!

Seeing this makes me nearly cry 😂 Remembering me, good mates, somewhere in the early 90’s - 2 Joysticks 🕹️ a good puff and then this game, coded with skill and love..homework was done and we would chill together until evening..what a great time..bloody hell - more than 30 years have passed since. My children are playing Fortnite…I’m cool with that, but I appreciate how undeveloped our games where, how raw and simple, how honest they were…Cheers to everyone who played Moonstone, Ports of Call, Cannonfodder, Wings of Fury, Defender of the Crown and all those kick ass games of “our time” ❤

"I started developing Moonstone back in 1988 when I was finishing Fiendish Freddy and was wanting to do more than just artwork. Todd (Prescott) and I go way back and we played a lot of RPG and board games and we developed the idea for Moonstone. I created some animations in Deluxe Paint demonstrating some combat and proposed it with a design document to Mindscape. A publishing deal was set up and then the development started. The game's inspiration mainly comes from games called Talisman, Dungeons & Dragons and Barbarian/Death Sword." -- Rob Anderson, designer, programmer and graphic artist (Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight - Amiga)

The dragon fight can be cheesed. There is a sweet spot under its head where you can stand out of reach of being kicked back, but in a position where you can stun-lock it by continuously stabbing upwards until it dies.

Finally, after all these years I learned how this games ends. Mine always crashed when the fight with the guardian loads. Thank you! ❤

This game with its vibe and music haunted me as a kid.

Superb game I had four or five mates come up to my house to play this for hours every week, through spring, summer , winter, those were the days ...just great fun times, loved the sound effects.

I was 11 years old when this came out and I didnt understand English very well and the mechanics of scrolls and other items, this game beat the crap outta me but I loved it so much.. Today, almost 3 decades later, I had my revenge and I beat the game.. Lol! Thanks so much for the upload.

I will never stop loving this game, there is something with the aura of the game that can’t be replicated ❤

legend game. an amiga talisman of a game.

Definitely in my top 5 Amiga games of all time!!!

The other night my brother and I decided to play this for the first time in years. The next day you uploaded this! What timing! LOL Such a great game. It blew us away the first time we saw it. A real gem, truly ahead of its time. Well played. Nice to see the ending again.

What a game, atmosphere, sword of sharpness, music when gambling, the noises of the the tree rat things etc.

So nice that you included all death animations at the end!!!

At the time, I remember thinking that the animations of the dancing girls at the end was so smooth.

I remember how the killings seemed so brutal at the time

This game was so hard and so fun with my friends. So many memories, pure simple gaming.

I remember when I was 5 years old playing this game. Truely a legendary game!

What a game! It was a simpler time. I want a remake of Defendor of the Crown, and The Clue! also. I really loved my Amiga.

Thanks for uploading the video that was a blast from the past lol I never managed to complete it myself back then so well done to you :)

I am constantly thinking about this epic game whilst playing Elden Ring. I am quite confident that this was a great inspiration to many contemporary game developers 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I played this so much back in the day. Thank you for uploading this.

Man, that purple knight loves your headache remedy. He will follow you across the map every time he gets a migraine and you fix it for a modest fee.

Oh wow, as someone who grew up on Amiga games... how did this game pass me by?? It looks great!

I love this game! Thank you for posting this!

Nice one! Also, a big thank you for all the scenes at the end.

This game has always just been a fragment of a memory in my mind. I just remembered coloured knights and fields of gold being covered in blood. I’m so glad I’ve finally found out what it’s called. I was about 5-6 when it came out

One of the best games ever made! I played this a lot back in the good old Amiga days! 😎🤘

Remember going up in the sky to become a constellation after beating the guardian. And slaying the dragon with the sword of sharpness. Great game.

This was kind of like IK+ in its surprisingly sophisticated play scheme and Barbarian for its head lopping action. I really loved the whole turn based World they made round it too, a wonderful game.

we want a remake!

I remember playing an Amiga Format demo disk of this, I sucked, but it was fun and at the time I had not played anything as gory. Fun watching someone who knows how to play this, a friend of mine bragged about being good at it, though when he came over, he sucked too, but blamed our joystick.

awesome game... animations are all very good.

Thanks for this upload I loved this game on my Amiga used to play this with my mates.

Eines meiner Favoriten damals auf dem Amiga 😍 Da kommt meine Jugend schlagartig zurück 🤗🥰

The Outtakes are great😂😂⚔. Love this game.

Man, I've never managed to defeat that dragon. Well done. I just have watched a list of 50 games that should be remastered or remade. They passed this one. That's a shame. :D I think, moonstone is next to SNES Zelda, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Soleil one of the best 2D games of all times. Character development and a loot system has been a very very rare feature back then. The only bad part of moonstone is the lack of a save option. What's really special, is the option play it with multiple human players. I really don't understand why this game is not more famous and hasn't been recreated for various systems.

Fantastic title. I have the original disks.

42:41 Those guys scared the crap out of me when I was little.

I remember showing this game to my friends from my Amiga 500 who owned IBMs and their minds were blown. It was revolutionary graphics for the time

Had I been born in the UK and owned an Amiga, this would probably have been one of my most favorite games.

I will never forget this legend

There was a time when I never thought that gaming could peak from the 16-bit era.

Animations make it a satisfying combat

That one knight truly had a thing for you, considering how often he attacked you. XD

I never did work out how to get the moonstone to 'work' once I'd beaten the blue guardian, then I saw how you waited at your home village until just prior to the new moon... Good stuff!

The gods pause for a moment to contemplate your fate... very ominous.

I'd forgotten all about this. What a game !

Ah the memories!

Loved that amazing game back these days. Needs a remake. Did every one know who owns the copyright...?

I played this with my brother when we were kids on the Amiga. I seem to remember those hog things being called something 'balocks'. We always laughed at that.

I played tihs game as teen in 90s. Legendary classic Amiga game. Scared the BeeJeezus out of us game freaks :D Almos as scary as Forbidden Forest on C64 but that's unbeatable as far as game scariness is concerned. Fantastic gaming times!

Thank you for this nostalgia

he makes it look so easy, but the game was terryfying for a 8 year old, not to mention difficulty level - anyways - one of the best amiga games ever

Great! Thank you. I never played the game to its end. Nice

Amazing game, especially for its time!

Nice upload my friend. This was my favourite game on Amiga. I played it back in 1993. I was the only kid in my neighbourhood who finished the game, nobody believed me.I was so scared of those swamp creatures :), I still am. I didnt know that you can enter the valley of gods and fight the Guardian without havin all 4 keys.

Played this when I was 10, and the fire made me and my friend loose our shit completely!

Man, if I had an Amiga when I was younger, I'd probably have played that games for hours. Especially like how the mud golems / monsters come out with a scare chord associated with it XD

What a great playthrough! Jesus, this is the OG Dark Souls of my childhood :D How did you get your framerate to be so smooth? I'm playing the GOG version of the game (via DosBox) and it moves clunky like hell :D

Remember me and four mates clearing this out and duelling at the end. Great game.

Superb graphics for 1991

I played this game so many times :D

I loved this game. I demand a remake to be made!

Amazing game... The good old days on the Amiga sciving college to play

I still shudder about Mudmen and their instant -kill attack.

I'm no sure it is the best Amiga game but it's up there.

What a legend of a game. But I remember it was quite buggy. It would eventually crash after a long play session. And there was some kind of exploit at the shop, buying and reselling stuff to get basically unlimited amounts of cash.

47:20 tiiiiight. I woulda been smashed into porridge. You're good at this game. What "controller" do you use? I used to play this with a simple Amiga 1button joystick. Not sure if it made the game harder or not 😅

Awesome! But how did you play it? I tried it with the dos box once, but the soundfiles were really broken :(

I loved the spear, me and like 6 other friends used to play this against eachother.

My favorite amiga games

I played it with 11 years. It was forbidden to buy it, but we got it :D And with that Game my Love started for Adventure- and Role-Playing-Games.

I remember playing this game in my mate's house the morning after finishing a bottle of Pernod! I threw up all over the wall and his mother had to clean it up. She was not happy, to say the least. Still, I thought it was a brilliant game but never completed it cos of an error right at the end!! I never had an amiga but I recollect really wanting one :)

That was amazing this game was so hard I never got very far

Man those hammer bros are brutal.

I completed this game 3-4 times when it were new. I still remember how i beat the big dragon or something easily. I used "Sword of Sharpness".. Smashing it's head from bottom right corner.

Literally loved this game. It was solid though

These animations are top notch for the time this was made. Brilliant pixel art indeed. They don't make em like this anymore.

Played with my friends and brother on the amiga. It was very funny and we hunted each other for our nice stuff

it would be nice to see it redesigned in 2023 with much more advanced graphics..

I need to man up and try this again. Loved the game in my youth, and got traumatized for having bad crack which made the game crash always before the end. Tried this now once again with emulator or maybe it was even my real A1200, doesnt matter. But couldn't really survive shit anymore :D

i had a 2 player demo of this lol, very fun times but never found the full version

This is great game for remake with open world !

Einfach eine Legende dieses Spiel

Un top en jeu :-) Qu'es ce que j'ai pu y jouer! :-)

This game looks pretty

i love this game my school bud had this on his 500, i seem to rem this could have been the first time i played on an amiga i may have used a shop one but i think it was on his, there were 3 of us who had a school sleepover at a weekend and we played his 500 mostly this but a other stuff as well, this made desperate to get my own so i could play incredible machine, ( i started off with a shared used spec and after it ended up breaking i ended up buying my own used specs i have a number of diff models not the ql the +2 and +3 i was able to slide it over for a better thing for an ok price myself, i then went on to a c64 because a diff bud with a 64c but i had the huge brick model just so i cud get copies of his games, (i did have one person with an st and it was ok but the games were not as deep with the sound) i eventually found a used a500 with games a joystick and some other stuff in a local shop for a reasonable price so i started to go in to overdrive because i didnt want to miss it i know popular these are (i was 14 at the time, i was putting everything from my paperround i used my bd and xmas and possibly took an early payments i also sold all of my tech and other stuff i had that could get an ok price and managed to get it eventually, it was the best purchase of my life i also got a copy of moonstone and managed to complete it on my own.

The first Souls-Like ever made! I LOVED this game... But one of the Discs was broken, so I could only get to a certain point in the game ...

Amazing Story

one of the hardest games i've ever played

One of the best games ever

Game base on rock paper sizor mechanics. In modern games that was replaced by Dark Souls. I played a lot as a kid, moonstone was special. You could end that game in 2 hours and that was good we need that games in modern times.

I played the video while playing and we finished the game almost at the same time :-)...

Dope.

i never completed the game, was hard :D think i was nine years old, had a blast with it tho.

Where can i install this? Like there must be an emulator for this.

Legend

Richtig gut 👌🏻