The History of Dungeons and Dragons Video Games

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NOTE: I did not create this video, nor claim it as my property in any way. This was written by 90sgamer92, and narrated by Hadriex. This was taken down from 90sgamer92's channel due to copyright claims, and has been missing from RU-vid for years as a result. I managed to download it from the Wayback Machine, using a piece of software called Internet Download Manager. This video is a valuable resource and deserves to be seen. Thank you to 90sgamer92 and Hadriex for all their work on this amazing video.
Originally published on Mar 5, 2016
NOTES FROM 90SGAMER92 IN THE PINNED COMMENT BELOW (it wouldn't all fit here)
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**Table of Contents**
0:00 - Disclaimer (see pinned post)
0:06 - Chapter 0: Introduction & the early history of RPGs
6:57 - PLATO games
Chapter 1: Intellivision games
11:55 - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (Cloudy Mountain) (1982)
12:56 - Treasure of Tarmin (1983)
Chapter 2: Goldbox
13:58 - SSI and Goldbox Games
15:50 - Pool of Radiance (1988)
36:09 - The Order of the Griffon (1992)
Chapter 3: Action RPGs
37:26 - Intro
37:46 - Heroes of the Lance (1988) & Dragons of Flame (1989)
38:08 - Hillsfar (1989)
39:19 - War of the Lance (1989)
39:49 - DragonStrike (1990)
40:39 - Shadow sorcerer (1991)
Chapter 4: Real time dungeon crawlers
41:50 - Eye of the Beholder (1990)
44:34 - Dungeon Hack (1993)
45:25 - Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession (1994) & Stone Prophet (1994)/Menzoberranzan (1994)
47:16 - Al-qadim: Genie's curse (1994)
48:06 - Slayer (1994) & DeathKeep (1995)
Chapter 5: Dark Sun
49:32 - Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (1993) [ Longer review: • Dark Sun: Shattered La... ]
52:50 - Dark Sun Online: Crimson Sands (1996)
Chapter 6: Fighting games/beat em ups
53:21 - Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft (1996)
53:37 - Tower of Doom (1993) & Shadow Over Mystara (1996)
Chapter 7: Strategy Games
57:38 - Intro
58:00 - Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace (1992)
58:51 - Fantasy Empires (1993)
59:22 - Stronghold (1993) & Blood & Magic (1996)
1:00:15 - Birthright: The Gorgon's alliance (1997)
Chapter 8: Infinity Engine
1:02:04 - Baldur's Gate (1998) & Descent to Undermountain (1997)
1:04:49 - Baldur's Gate 2 (2000)
1:25:55 - Planescape: Torment (1999)
1:41:30 - Icewind Dale (2000) & Icewind Dale 2 (2002)
Chapter 9: Temple of Elemental Evil
1:45:53 - Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (2001)
1:46:48 - The Temple of Elemental Evil (2003)
Chapter 10: Knights of the Chalice
1:55:44 -Knights of the Chalice (2009)
2:00:11 - Chapter 11: The Rest
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (2001) & Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 (2004)
Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes (2003)
Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone (2004)
Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard (2005)
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach (2006)
Dungeons & Dragons Tactics (2007)
Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale (2011)
Dungeons & Dragons: Arena of War (2013)
Lords of Waterdeep (2014)
Sword Coast Legends (2015)
2:02:24 - Neverwinter Nights (2002) & Neverwinter Nights 2 (2006)
2:03:20 - Chapter 12: Closing thoughts
2:07:16 - Credits
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@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

90sgamer92's Notes: I'm open to criticism, but BEFORE YOU COMMENT, read this (1-5): 1.The video was edited in parts during a 3 week time period, so I apologize if the sound editing is all over the place. I generally used 60% volume on my PC with headphones on when editing the video, so those are the settings this video is "optimized" for in the later parts. 2. Except for the major titles, most of the footage was captured from early areas in most games. There were many games I played for the first time (and quite briefly) for this project, so unfortunately this video doesn't offer any major insight on the more obscure and forgotten games. I also had to cut some newer games from this list (didn't wan't to spend money on games that I could predict being utter garbage and I couldn't capture footage from some games), but at least I tried to cover all of the older games. 3. I was originally supposed to get this video out before January, but for various reasons (Vegas problems, procrastination, RL obligations, Hadriex's schedule, etc) I couldn't start working on it until later on. So by the time I had rendered the last parts, I didn't have time to fix some visual glitches (like how the picture is stretched out of bounds at 2:00:00 and 2:02:34, it certainly wasn't that way in the Vegas preview window!), as I had to make room for my hard drive and delete much of the footage that had been cluttering it up for the past few months. Epescially the last few chapters are hastily put together. Also worth noting that some of my old footage from games like Pool of Radiance and Planescape: Torment is more blurry/pixelated, and there's nothing I could do about it beyond going back and replaying the game to re-capture footage. 4. There are some minor flaws here and there in the voice over like accidentally skipping over some words, leaving out the plural etc. Since patching the audio usually sounds jarring, I patched in missing words with text in spots where it was neccessary. There's some background noise here and there that I couldn't get rid of, but if you'll check the credits, you'll see that Hadriex did his best to try and record the voice over in the most optimal conditions. The script was just so long that he had to do it in parts. 5. I wasn't as thorough about fact checking when making this video, and made some claims based on my memory on games that I played 1-3 years ago. So if I state something that's factually incorrect, feel free to correct me. And as always, I'm not that great when it comes to presentation/polish/using Vegas efficiently, so the video retains my amateurish style. But I like to think that as a part of my rustic charm.

@SittingShelf 2 года назад

is this post on wayback dated in April 17, 2021?

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

@@SittingShelf iirc it was sometime in 2017

@AaronMDubya 2 года назад

An important work of internet history - and archeology! Thanks for digging this up for us 👍

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

My pleasure! It's truly an awesome piece of work.

@Arcboltkonrad13 2 года назад

I am nearly on the verge of tears because I am so happy this is back online!

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

Sweet! Enjoy. :)

@TitanCrit 2 года назад

Thank you hun for putting this out for everyone again!

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

My pleasure! It's an amazing work. :)

@CubingTheSphere 2 года назад

Thank you for preserving this. It sucks when content gets deleted from the internet without a trace.

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

No problem at all! Luckily, there was a trace this time. ;)

@goonerlee 2 года назад

Thanks so much for this. Watched it ages ago and found it very helpful and couldn't understand why I could never find it again.

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

My pleasure! :)

@alk7934 11 месяцев назад

Man I have been looking for this video for YEARS. Not constantly mind you LOL. But every now and then I would check to see if I could find it and would get frustrated when I could not. Thank you so much for posting this again.

@TheRPGChick 11 месяцев назад

My pleasure! Enjoy. :)

@m.p.jallan2172 2 года назад

I kept a copy of this, the original upload. And probably the others, they were great. This one set the bar quite high, none of the other punks have really lived up to it haha. thanks

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

My pleasure! :)

@drakkenmensch 9 месяцев назад

Tip for Pool of Radiance: if you want your wizard to learn Knock (which is necessary to complete the storyline as one plot critical door cannot be bashed or picked), you MUST learn it at level up since the game does NOT have any Knock scrolls.

@dwgreen108 Год назад

Thank you very much for preserving this!

@kareful Год назад

Thank you for reuploading! I was devistated when this was removed 😨

@TheRPGChick Год назад

So was I, and that was my motivation. Enjoy! :)

@kareful Год назад

@@TheRPGChick Any chance you could upload the other videos he made that got removed? xD

@TheRPGChick Год назад

@@kareful See previous thread...

@zalito657 Год назад

Neverwinter nights gave me the best online roleplaying years in my life... Best game ever

@whoaitstiger 2 года назад

1970s CRPG designers: "Let's design a CRPG with our own characters set in a completely original world that we create from scratch." "Great! What should we call it?" "Gandalf's Adventures in the Land of Middle-earth." "Sounds good to me!"

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

More like tabletop RPG designers, but otherwise, yes. I'm not sure if it's mentioned in this video, but halflings were once called hobbits, and treants were called ents.

@whoaitstiger 2 года назад

@@TheRPGChick This is true as well. My thoughts were specifically some of these Rouge-like games that used names like Moria and Orthanc. I've played Angband, but that is more of a Middle-earth setting/homage because it seems to deliberately be using as much Tolkein material as possible. I'm not sure if Moria and others did the same though, other than just to use the name. Perhaps I'm mistaken and they were more of an homage like Angband was.

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

@@whoaitstiger Angband is like a sequel to Moria, but neither of them were sold for profit, so that's probably why they weren't sued into oblivion.

@someguy3186 Год назад

Been wanting to watch this again for years. Thanks for the upload!

@TheRPGChick Год назад

Cheers! :)

@laurencelikeit459 8 месяцев назад

I think you have something quite impressive here and it was a great trip down memory lane for a lot of them, thanks heaps for all your work! 🤩🤩

@TheYoggyBoi 2 года назад

Thank you for posting this. My fiance used to listen to this at night to go to sleep so it was a little harsh when it was gone, now he can finally listen to it again at night. :) Awesome job RPG Chick on finding this

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

That's awesome! I'm glad I was able to help. Hadriex does have a rather soothing voice, and listening about D&D games tends to give one that warm feeling. :)

@Kdogdabomb 2 года назад

Perfect to listen to at work

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

Enjoy!

@blahblahblahdeeblah Год назад

Thank you for bringing this back to us. Made for a great video while working today.

@TheRPGChick Год назад

My pleasure! :)

@39Chevy Год назад

THANK YOU! I really liked this video.

@TheRPGChick Год назад

Enjoy! :)

@tompadinho Год назад

Dude, this is one awesome video!

@TheRPGChick Год назад

It sure is, duder! Resurrected from copyright hell. :D

@thomasj.9686 Год назад

Omg, I missed this video from 90sgamer92. Thank you!

@TheRPGChick Год назад

No problem! :)

@luminayre6227 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing!

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

My pleasure! :)

@meachew Год назад

Thank you for re uploading this

@TheRPGChick Год назад

Much welcomes!

@raihankibria5112 Год назад

Never heard of this, really interesting. Thank you!

@TheRPGChick Год назад

Hopefully you've heard of some of these games. Some of them are amazing!

@torgo_ 10 месяцев назад

This is really fascinating and informative, I've made a list of some of these that I'll be checking out. It's like peeping into this completely separate multiverse of forgotten worlds. Great video.

@TheRPGChick 10 месяцев назад

This is one of my personal favorite videos, and I'm glad I was able to rescue it from the void. :)

@guillermorobles887 Год назад

I remember watching this video waay bavk in the day and loved every second of it. Thnks!

@TheRPGChick Год назад

You're welcome! Thanks for the comment. :)

@alexisrabago907 9 месяцев назад

Great video

@volvoguy804 7 месяцев назад

Love BG1 and 2 + IWD1 and 2! I try to play those games once a year. I wished they would have a created more games in other parts of Forgotten Realms or in the Ravenloft world using the Infinity Engine.

@CuteLesbo69 Год назад

For me nothing will ever top the Gold Box games, especially the Krynn series.

@lennyblade Год назад

Best video on RU-vid!

@theonlymoo5e 11 месяцев назад

I had all 9 Gold Box games, Dungeon Hack, all 3 Eye Of The Beholder, Dark Sun games, Ravenloft games, Fantasy Empires & Unlimited Adventures. I also had a Buck Rogers game along the lines of the Gold Box games., then nothing until Warcraft 3, Diablo (1, 2, 3 & 4), World Of Warcraft Final Fantasy XIV, Guild Wars 2 & Star Trek Online.

@saltysumo7991 Год назад

thank you for preserving this.

@jean-camilgirard 4 месяца назад

Awesome video, I've just subscribed 🎵

@TheRPGChick 4 месяца назад

Thanks! My own videos are a bit different from this. :)

@samaranthae9671 8 месяцев назад

I cant believe stronghold and Fantasy empire got glossed over... like i get it but also. I love that they were trying new things. I think Stronghold, fantasy Empire and War of the Lance were really interesting additions to the D&D library.

@dicariel 2 года назад

Thank you!

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

No problemo! :)

@robinpayne125 7 месяцев назад

I came here because of the new release of BG3 bringing the genre back to the attention of the mainstream. I absolutely loved the infinity engine games, and I’m glad to see some love for Icewind Dale. I loved the aspect with that game of creating all my own party from level 1 and following my own characters through. Of course the fully crafted story lines of BG1, 2 and now 3, offer a different kind of storytelling, I personally enjoyed that particular kind of game that has somewhat fallen out of favour more recently.

@KabukiKid Год назад

I can testify that the D&D Tactics game on the PSP is quite good. I had great fun with it and it is strange that it never appeared on any other platforms. It's a shame, as I had a good time with it.

@TheRPGChick Год назад

I definitely want to check that one out someday!

@RodrigoTakehara 2 года назад

Ah, só this video got removed? That explains why I couldn’t find it no matter what...

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

Same here, so I decided to fix that. ;)

@lusalma5404 9 месяцев назад

Most of the SSI gold box games do let you modify and max out stats :) GoG also has very good versions that are easily launchable plus the Eye of the Beholder and the Dark Sun games.

@funnylumpy 9 месяцев назад

The ad&d goldbox games where great fun. BG1 abd IWD1 was the last fun rpg games.

@vxicepickxv 8 месяцев назад

This was a very impressive overview, and one heck of a first video for me to watch. It's a shame you couldn't capture Neverwinter Nights. It's a very impressive game, with a long lasting legacy. Neverwinter Nights 2, not as much for very complex set of reasons.

@jinnyplays 11 месяцев назад

15:44 does anyone know the name of this song? It is enchanting.

@TheRPGChick 11 месяцев назад

That's the opening theme from Final Fantasy VI. :)

@mmoncure11 9 месяцев назад

I know a secret! In secret of the silver games, you can hack the game to play as a tribble if you select the title label in the character creation process, and give yourself 25 on stats :-D

@JaymeSplendid 2 года назад

You should REALLY play Sega's Warriors of the Eternal sun. Turn based while outside and real time while in dungeons but without some of the clunky movements like in the EOTB series. Its AMAZING.

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

If you mean me, specifically, yes, I did play it back in the 90s, and I loved it. I haven't played it yet for the channel. It was the first game I ever finished on the Genesis, and I remember copying down those codes for the sequel that was supposedly coming soon, but was unfortunately never released. :/

@nesmandan1037 9 месяцев назад

The original author really missed the point on the gold box games and didn’t dig deep enough into them. Creating a halfling female fighter was FUN as you were, oh what is it, ah yes, Roleplaying!!! Oh wow, you modified your party to maxed out stats, how original is that. Vs you beat the game with what!?!??!! Alignment did have consequences in the series, it allowed for different interactions and treatment.

@Barnaby3060 2 года назад

Baldurs gate is my favorite

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

Great choice! I love it too, but I might like BG2 even better. I'm near the beginning, though.

@SittingShelf 2 года назад

Does original resolution was 720p? Cause i don't remember, and i thought it was 3 hours long

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

It was 720p on the Wayback Machine, and if you watch it, you'll see it's the entire video. The timestamps were in the original video description as well, and they don't go that high.

@dennislogan6781 Год назад

I play D&D and I have have played most of these games. I find it funny that the best rpg video game in my opinion is Skyrim. It's a fun game I keep going back to where as most of these I quit a few hours in. There is only maybe 5 I really enjoy.

@TheRPGChick Год назад

Skyrim is a hell of a fun game to play, but the RPG elements are rather light. TES games get lighter on skills and attributes with every entry. I consider it to be an open-world sandbox action game first, an RPG second. That's not a bad thing imo.

@myfakename5582 Год назад

I LEFT A COMMENT WITHOUT READING THE DISCRIPTION! IM A REBEL!

@TheRPGChick Год назад

You probably meant the pinned comment. That's the one that says to read before commenting. :P

@myfakename5582 Год назад

@@TheRPGChick I DIDNT EVEN READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CORRECT!SUPER REBEL!

@TheRPGChick Год назад

@@myfakename5582 lol

@bluecoconut9543 Год назад

Solasta, crown of magister.

@TheRPGChick Год назад

...and what about it?

@baconatorrodriguez4651 6 месяцев назад

Pretty sure I remember this from 90sGamer92's channel...

@TheRPGChick 6 месяцев назад

Quite a few people do! I guess it's a good thing I did.

@monostripeexplosiveexplora2374 6 месяцев назад

i loved *HILLSFAR*

@Eliel20117 Год назад

can you upload more videos from 90sgamer92??? there are multiple videos from his channel that were blocked

@TheRPGChick Год назад

What videos? I'm not aware of any other missing vids.

@Eliel20117 Год назад

@@TheRPGChick from what i´ve managed to find it from the wayback machine, i´m pretty sure there are other videos missing -Looking Glass Studios retrospective (57:35 length time) -The Old Hunters DLC (Bloodborne) review (7:46) -Day of Defeat Source: paragon of FPS design (25:30) -Dark Souls&choices and consequences (7:36)

@TheRPGChick Год назад

Hmmm, I'll have to look into that. Thanks for letting me know. :)

@LDGFREEtheNET 2 года назад

just showed you off to the channel, thanks for the creative commons!

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

Showed me off how?

@LDGFREEtheNET 2 года назад

@@TheRPGChick i am a community content chan that promotes FOS and #FREEtheNET and i pomote creative commons creators. found you and showed you to the morning bunch that was over here :) you can find my live stream now if you wish to see what we are about.

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

@@LDGFREEtheNET All I see is a Norm McDonald skit. ???

@LDGFREEtheNET 2 года назад

@@TheRPGChick currently i only did live streams, they are in the playlists

@LDGFREEtheNET 2 года назад

@@TheRPGChick trying to branch out but i didnt want my endless 2 years of livestream to clutter the channel page. i usually stream like 12 hours at a time for the community

@sirellyn 6 месяцев назад

Knights of the Chalice 1 was fantastic! I really don't like the graphics on Knights of the Chalice 2. The color palette went to muddy, complicated and a lot more boring. Even the MS paint like visuals of the first one are IMHO far better.

@injunjoe8967 Месяц назад

38:00 the versions shown are the awful NES versions for Dragonlance games. The DOS and Amiga versions of all of those games were better than the NES ports. Better graphics too. One is PC the other was for Nintendo- big difference.

@mhjmstultiens 7 месяцев назад

I'm surprised your experience with Eye of the Beholder is so negative, although you're showing gameplay from EotB3 (the worst of the bunch). Many including myself consider EotB1&2 an all time classic. It's interface actually is quite elegant, especially when using keyboard for movement. Quite the list though. I forgot about many of the curiosities, although I played many of the older titles.

@TheRPGChick 7 месяцев назад

fyi this is not my video. :)

@know_not_wickedness 4 месяца назад

Why is this channel called The RPG Chick?

@TheRPGChick 4 месяца назад

That's the name I decided...?

@khagan1334 2 года назад

1🇺🇲☕👓...roll dice...ok...God...basic red vs green...why!?!?!

@TheRPGChick 2 года назад

Say what?

@natetete1379 10 месяцев назад

Ummm you missed like half of the DND video games from the 2000s? Was there a reason for that or do you just not know all the games?

@TheRPGChick 10 месяцев назад

This is not my video, it's from 90sgamer92. I don't see any games missing. What games do you think he missed?

@natetete1379 10 месяцев назад

@@TheRPGChick don't forgotten realms games count? dark alliance and champions of Norrath games and other related stuff.

@TheRPGChick 10 месяцев назад

@natetete1379 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance does indeed count, and that's why it's in chapter 11. Which Forgotten Realms games? The gold box games? They are included here as well. Champions of Norrath is an EverQuest game, not D&D.