With your skills honestly I'd love to see a restoration series where, through the magic of 3D printing and DIY crafting, you bring the game back to life. Replace the walls with XPS foam structures and 3D print some awesome alternative models to make the game at least playable. Think it'd be a cool idea.
Yeah! He can also try to convince some miniature sculptor to create the 1:1 or really similiar miniatures/golden weapons to keep the spirit of the game. That would be so cool.
Amazing! this game is „Burg des Schreckens“ which was first released by the german toycompany „Schmidt Spiele“ in1992. It is a HeroQuest knock off, losely themed of the original (and bigest) german ttrpg „das schwarze Auge“ (the dark eye). although it just uses the ip mostly, and not really much of the original lore. fantastic that you had this, i didnt even know it was released in english language :3
I had the Mutant Cronicles game. Bought it on clearance at. KayBee toys. At the time, the Mutant Cronicles RPG had just been turned into a proper tabletop miniatures game called Warzone. I used the undead legionaires, Necromutants, Centurians, and other Dark Legion baddies to build a Dark Legion Army under Algeroth. Played Warzone through the first two editions of the game. Sold it all several years ago. Sorta wish I had it back.
I don’t play any tabletop game to be honest I just love painting minis and building things for them, so you going through the games and the videos and your story’s and and great memories are really interesting to watch, this game dark world I’ve never heard of and the other game your bought I haven’t heard of that so I’d love to watch a video about it
Ahhh... sweet memories. Had the german version of it. "Das Schwarze Auge" it was called and was planned as a kind of a gateway thing for the german pen and paper "Das Schwarze Auge" role play system. (It was like introducing kids to D&D by giving them Heroquest... not the same but now that you killed some Orcs... how about a D20 and some more books to read?) I knew the pen and paper first (thanks to my older brother...) but at that time we (my school friends and i) were 11 years old and played whatever we could get into our hands. That is a trip down memory lane... Thank you for sharing that! Hope you will find a second box for spares someday!
Oh man, I think I still have that...now I am going to have to look for it....loved the art work of that game, as well...I have the Mutant Chronicles, also...and an expansion...I think...I really enjoyed this...nice job on the box restoration...Jim
I remember seeing this game on a market stall in Leeds UK when i was around 7 or 8 and somehow managing to convince my mum to spend a fortune and buy it for me. I did exactly as you did and just played with it as an action figure playset, but it definitely opened my interest into all thinks TTP and Miniatures.
Loved the video (and loved the ad). I wasn't sure what Dark World was (figured it was some Hero Quest like thing) but was interested in seeing why it was important enough for a video. When I saw the back of the box I realized I had recently read about it because I had seen a Chaotic-themed board game at a shop and it was basically a reskin of Dark World. And then you showing off the minis made me realize that this game is part of a series and that I had one of the games growing up (Dark World: Village of Fear). And then you pulled out Mutant Chronicles at the end, which caught me completely off-guard as it's another game that was in my house growing up. Tons of cool stuff in it and I wish I still had it. As an aside, I wonder how feasible it would be to scratch-build all the parts you'd need for a Dark World set? Outside of the cards and tokens, I'd imagine making a set of walls and such would turn out pretty cool. I've always thought how nice it'd be to custom-make board game components to supplement/replace pieces.
Very similar story here, but with the Legend of Zagor. I do have Dark World too, both are very enjoyable and have that great late 80s vibe. Thanks for all the videos Jeremy. You're a huge inspiration and I wouldn't be into that obscure dnd terrain hobby without you 🤘
Have a look. The gameplay is not fantastic per se, but I love the artwork of the character sheets, the coins, the minis ... and the dramatic computer voice!!
The ending had me laughing :D I own Mutant Chronicles which I got after I bought the Dark World aka "Das Schwarze Auge" (german ver). I still own both of them with all the add-on boards, like the village, labyrinth and a dinosaur battle field.
I've got that Mutant Chronicles game, and it is still pretty wicked! Still playable! Also, what do you mean you're not going to restore that game!? Dude, that's like free video content right there!! Would love to see you remove the paint from those models, and repaint a few. Would love to see you create the two missing wall sections (via scanning of the other and printing on cardstock, etc), and would love to see you cast molds for the missing weapons using your bits box (I'm sure you have a flail in there somewhere?!). DO EEET!! :) Also...3D board anyone?! Create the board with dungeon tiles would be pretty easy, and dope!
WTF! For years I have been trying to remember the name of this board game. I had it when I was really young and thought back then that the models would look amazing painted. I eventually lost most of them or something and the game became a distant memory. Literally. Until a couple nights ago when I finally came across some of the game on ebay. And now all of a sudden you make a video about the same game.... That Manticore! awe MAN! I got this game at the same time I was learning about monster mythology and all the different beasts and crap like the gryphon, minotaur, gobilns, orks, giants and the MANTICORE.... I swear coincidences have me feeling like I'm Jim Carrey on the Trueman show...
I was watching this thinking it was going to be a stock standard "bought a thing from my childhood in A1++ condition", and, it wasn't. I could clearly see you being genuine about the condition of the game, and how you felt. I love how truthful this video is, and yes, I'd love to see an unboxing of the other boardgame too. Plus, that whole Into the AM promo was the best one of those I've seen so far! Thank you for the video! I hope you stumble across a better condition copy of the game one day, with all of the weapons, the Knight and the walls intact.
Traveller was my first game. I still have the box. My Little Brother kept it in his collection. He was always the better collector and keeper and curator than me.
my goodness. :D looks awesome, no wonder you played around with the pieces so much. ^^ so I went and asked ebay, and came up with the german version, curiously enough distributed under the name of a famous german RPG, "Das Schwarze Auge" (The Dark Eye), and located on cypria of all places... seems everything even decently complete goes for around 100 quid here. watching it. maybe I'll cave in, who knows. :)
I had Darkworld AND Mutant Chronicles! Darkworld has a lot of great components but the game play was a bit shallow and the single board set up left it repetitive and more board gamey than HeroQuest. Mutant Chronicles was a great game, though! I remember spending many nights staying up way too late playing that game with my buddies! Let’s see that video next!
Okay: I did know, that the Art Work looks familiar. The Rattle on the Back-Picture gave me the clou: I never owned one of these, but it was released as "Das schwazre Auge: Burg des schreckens" here in germany. (Though: I didn't know that the german board game publisher "Schmidt Spiel" bought any licenses. They were famous for ripofs, because you can't protect any game rules.)
AHHH!!!! SIEGE OF THE CITADEL!!! I played HOURS of that game on my porch as a kid. Would love to see you go through that. The remake just didn’t quite hit the mark, in my opinion. If you’re unfamiliar with the game, I think you’ll have a fun time going through it.
"Knock off warhammer models"!? How dare you!!! =D. Mutant Chronicles was the first RPG I came in to contact with, and I loved this boardgame vesion as well when it came out. Dark world looks kind of fun too! I'll check that out some more.
Btw, i have many spare part of that game including walls! i've remade mine whole last year by buying a old incomplete set and kept the extra since. Where can is send you my extra box? if you still need it :)
We had both games and I painted much of the pieces. They were fun but I let my stepson keep them when I got divorced. That's okay, I'm sure he enjoyed them.
This is a Board Game SPin off of the German RPG The Dark Eye. They changed the Design a bit but you can still see the Dark Eye Logo. You can google it: DSA Burg des Schreckens. But it's still a Hero Quest rip off. The story behind DSA and this Spinn off is too long. It started with D&D. BUT: If yo have access to german Lebkuchen brands you might get access to the german version of this game.
Ask for your followers to find a better shaped boardgame :) Wish to help you with that But its the first time in heard of this game. Or maybe finding the missing pieces. So happy for your Happiness ^-^
"Can you promote our clothing brand on one of your videos? Maybe where are some of our stuff and give a link?". "No but I can film a found footage style video of me running through the woods being chased by an invisible monster but at least I'm warm and cozy in my nice fleecy."
To infodump a bit: as some people already pointed out, this game was originally developed by a German company (Schmidt Spiele). They had the TTRPG "Das Schwarze Auge" or short DSA, which is still alive and popular/infamous in Germany. So the German title of that boardgame was "Das Schwarze Auge". The development seemed to be quite the shitshow. Schmidt Spiele had the TTRPG which made good money and saw the success of Heroquest. So they went to one of the writers for DSA and asked him to write a German Heroquest. While he was working on it they changed their mind quite a bit, like wanting to include a soundchip which then was to expensive. The presentation of the writers concepts rarely went on for longer than 2 minutes while Schmidt Spiele Always had some parts they wanted to change. At some point the company hired some "British Pros" to work on the game. The original writer was flewn to London to participate in a 2 hour meeting of which 1,5 hours were about the box size. After that Schmidt Spiele decided, that the Brits would finish the game, also it would not play in the universe of DSA, so the only thing it still had in common was the logo and name. The pictured manticore for example was not even existent in the world at that time. Fortunately the original writer was paid handsomely. He was just asked how much he wanted, said the most ludicrous number that came to mind, the Schmidt Spiele exec sighed in relief and paid him. Thanks to the money the writer could work on writing a massive campaign for DSA even 10 years after. (DSA is kind of known for these longspanning campaigns and metaplots). Source: de.wiki-aventurica.de/wiki/Die_Burg_des_Schreckens Apparently the game was a bit of a gateway for a good number of people, but basically everyone I talked to, who played it said it was nearly unplayable in the vanilla state and one had to use house rules and phantasy quite a bit. My brother had one as well. He gave it to me, in all its incomplete glory, when I started Warhammer as a child 24 years ago along with Heroquest and Space Crusade. I still want to paint and use the main temple for nostalgia reasons.
Thank you for the interesting info. I still have the Greek version in almost mint condition ( I think one of the weapons is missing). In Greece it was marketed as Dragon Game System. We already had HeroQuest with my brother which was basically super expensive for a kids board game at the time. This was even more expensive and the contents were super impressive, but soon we realised how lame the gameplay was. I’m not sure but is this the first time counter bases were ever used? I remember lamenting the fact that HeroQuest didn’t had those cool counter bases.
I have Darkworld. I have the 'Village of Fear' box as well, but not the one with the dragon. Mine is complete. If you'd like me to photograph the missing wall sections so that you can print them out, let me know.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficiallook for its alternative title Dragon Game System, I have my Greek edition in basically mint condition, I could scan those walls.
Plenty of people have done 3d printed or foam boards and terrain for HeroQuest. Pretty sure no one has done the same for Dark World. At least not on UA-cam. Could make for a fun vid or even a few vids.
As impressive of a set piece as this is, probably because the game play is super basic. Way more on the beer and pretzels side of things than what can be done with HeroQuest, even with the expansions that were released in Europe.
love it. a brief glance to ten years from now when Jeremy is painstakingly restoring a wizened copy of 13 Dead End Drive with one of those desk mounted magnifyers. (great ad short, btw)
YES. This was my start, too! I never owned it, but my older brother's friend did, and I'd try to sneak a play with it every chance I got. That Manticore is likewise burned into mine... So good, and such a cheap find for you, well done! I'm going to start my own hunt for it, I think...
What an epic trip down memory lane. My influencer game was Starship Troopers. Tried playing it once as a kid and it was way beyond teen me. But I grabbed a paperback of the book at a garage sale, and my Heinlein collection started.😊
Awesome, that was my start in the hobby a few years back. We found an abandoned box in our house, only one firebomb spell missing, probably originally belonging to a relative of my wife. My sons were hyped for the game and I started painting the minis with heavy brushes full of citadel starter set paints. Now I am hundreds of minis in and very happy I picked up the hobby.
I found a copy of this game years ago I hit on lucky everything was their and the bonus of it was all the miniatures are painted to a very good standard found it on ebay payed around £20 only because I was the only one bidding on it ❤❤
I’m actually painting up a couple of the ogres from this game right now! Probably my favorite sculpts from the box, but most of the enemy minis are pretty cool.
I am 90% sure your experience matches that of my brother who got this after I was 'too old and cool' to play games like that with him (much to my regret later in life). We had already burned through Heroquest by that point. I think we might have played it once or twice but he LOVED it with a passion and would play with it and set it up randomly. I believe I still have some of the accoutrements (the chests mostly) in my Mordheim scatter terrain box.
Never played Dark World, but I picked up a few years back that castle section from a store. They had no idea where it came from; and neither did I until now! I have since incorporated that section into a large terrain piece.
I can't describe how thrilled I was to see this thumbnail pop up. I was also introduced to this style of game by Dark World when I found it at a neighborhood yard sale in the mid 90's. And like you, I spent most of my time with the game assembling and playing with it without any consideration for the actual rules. Fast forward to about 4 years ago when I saw a complete and near pristine copy on eBay and I had to pull the trigger. Kudos to you for waiting to find a copy in the wild, even if it is missing a few pieces.
SIEGE OF THE CITADEEEEEL!!!! Please please please please make a video with that one! With Warzone Eternal about to go into retail Mutant Chronicles needs all the publicity it can get! ;) The video was great! I think everybody in this hobby had a game like that as a kid, mine was a local version/tribute/rip-off of Talisman which was called "Magic Sword". I did play it a few times but never to its fullest, with all the expansions (which I did have). The funniest part is that after I finally got to play the original Talisman when it re-released it turned out that the rip-off was actually better XD
Great video. Congrats on the find! Warhammer Quest was my first dungeon crawler board game. Mutant Chronicles was a fun board game. I never played the RPG. They made a bad movie based on the franchise, which I used to own a copy of. Ron Perlman was in it.
Great vid, would love to see Mutant Chronicles too! I looked on BGG for Dark World and apparently there were 2 expansions AND most Canadians know the game ;) according to the comments on there.
Never seen that game. Mutant Chronicles tho? Played that in my early 20s (some 10+ years after the game came out) and it was realy fun. You play a small campaign, and alternativ who plays the villain. You get to draw cards with special powers to suprise the players. Like spawning in monsters etc. I remeber so clearly the players rushing for the exit... and then I played a card that allowed me to turn a map-tile around. So suddenly they were alot further back and just next to my monsters 😅 It got a swanky new edition from kickstarter that was delivered like a year ago. Had I more time I would have loved to play that
Isnt it nice that a german product gets rebranded and renamed in canada. You can see they changed to logo to hide the dark eye. Its originally made by Schmidt Spiele to support the RPG "the dark eye" (Das Schwarze Auge). It was my entry to reading novels to that game system along my first RPG.
Always videos full of inspiration ❤ I think that could be interesting looking how you can rebuild the scenarios of Dark World in a modern way with all the techniques and stuffs you have shown in theese years. For example, now that i've seen that secret passage mirror/paint i'm going to reproduce it in a scenarios of mine for d&d and i think my players will love it😊
Ha! I had that set too when I was a kid - Das Schwarze Auge, der burg Des schreckens. I don't speak a word of German, so I used it pretty much like you did 😂
I like seeing jeremy happy 🙂
i was thinking the same thing at the start
With your skills honestly I'd love to see a restoration series where, through the magic of 3D printing and DIY crafting, you bring the game back to life. Replace the walls with XPS foam structures and 3D print some awesome alternative models to make the game at least playable.
Think it'd be a cool idea.
Hell yeah!
Yeah! He can also try to convince some miniature sculptor to create the 1:1 or really similiar miniatures/golden weapons to keep the spirit of the game. That would be so cool.
that would be awesome
You are certainly onto something with this
Come to the comments section to suggest the same. Loved the video.
I've been trying to find the name of this game for DECADES because I forgot the name and lost the game in a move. Thank you so much for this video!
It would be awesome to see a video recreating that box set, but with custom terrain and a nice paint job
I could feel your excitement. Sorry it was missing parts, but getting to share in the nostalgia made it definitely worth the $20!
This, and Space Crusade was what got me into table/rpg gaming. Love it.
Heroquest was my gateway drug, but Dark World is a good choice too!
I would LOOOOOVE to see the Mutant Chronicles game get the same kind of video! Please!!!
Enjoyed it. Thanks for making it
I got dark world for Xmas when I was young. Caused my whole collecting of armies. :). Nice to see it getting some love again.
Amazing! this game is „Burg des Schreckens“ which was first released by the german toycompany „Schmidt Spiele“ in1992. It is a HeroQuest knock off, losely themed of the original (and bigest) german ttrpg „das schwarze Auge“ (the dark eye). although it just uses the ip mostly, and not really much of the original lore. fantastic that you had this, i didnt even know it was released in english language :3
I had the Mutant Cronicles game. Bought it on clearance at. KayBee toys. At the time, the Mutant Cronicles RPG had just been turned into a proper tabletop miniatures game called Warzone. I used the undead legionaires, Necromutants, Centurians, and other Dark Legion baddies to build a Dark Legion Army under Algeroth. Played Warzone through the first two editions of the game. Sold it all several years ago. Sorta wish I had it back.
KB Toys! Pretty sure that’s where I picked up my copy of Siege of the Citadel.
I don’t play any tabletop game to be honest I just love painting minis and building things for them, so you going through the games and the videos and your story’s and and great memories are really interesting to watch, this game dark world I’ve never heard of and the other game your bought I haven’t heard of that so I’d love to watch a video about it
Ahhh... sweet memories. Had the german version of it. "Das Schwarze Auge" it was called and was planned as a kind of a gateway thing for the german pen and paper "Das Schwarze Auge" role play system. (It was like introducing kids to D&D by giving them Heroquest... not the same but now that you killed some Orcs... how about a D20 and some more books to read?) I knew the pen and paper first (thanks to my older brother...) but at that time we (my school friends and i) were 11 years old and played whatever we could get into our hands. That is a trip down memory lane... Thank you for sharing that! Hope you will find a second box for spares someday!
That was a nice walk down memory lane, thank you!
Oh man, I think I still have that...now I am going to have to look for it....loved the art work of that game, as well...I have the Mutant Chronicles, also...and an expansion...I think...I really enjoyed this...nice job on the box restoration...Jim
I love seeing old games like that from back in the day. Lots of great memories with games like this, like Heroquest, Talisman etc.
I really like how the figures have open hands to put different weapons into. Might be something to think about with custom minis. 🤔
That ad Read? Loved it!
I remember seeing this game on a market stall in Leeds UK when i was around 7 or 8 and somehow managing to convince my mum to spend a fortune and buy it for me.
I did exactly as you did and just played with it as an action figure playset, but it definitely opened my interest into all thinks TTP and Miniatures.
Loved the video (and loved the ad). I wasn't sure what Dark World was (figured it was some Hero Quest like thing) but was interested in seeing why it was important enough for a video. When I saw the back of the box I realized I had recently read about it because I had seen a Chaotic-themed board game at a shop and it was basically a reskin of Dark World. And then you showing off the minis made me realize that this game is part of a series and that I had one of the games growing up (Dark World: Village of Fear).
And then you pulled out Mutant Chronicles at the end, which caught me completely off-guard as it's another game that was in my house growing up. Tons of cool stuff in it and I wish I still had it.
As an aside, I wonder how feasible it would be to scratch-build all the parts you'd need for a Dark World set? Outside of the cards and tokens, I'd imagine making a set of walls and such would turn out pretty cool. I've always thought how nice it'd be to custom-make board game components to supplement/replace pieces.
This made me so happy to see you so happy
I loved it, mate. Look forward to the Mutant Chronicles vid!
I had a similar experience with "Dungeon!" growing up. 1989 edition
Very similar story here, but with the Legend of Zagor. I do have Dark World too, both are very enjoyable and have that great late 80s vibe. Thanks for all the videos Jeremy. You're a huge inspiration and I wouldn't be into that obscure dnd terrain hobby without you 🤘
I didn’t know that one but now I want it!
Have a look. The gameplay is not fantastic per se, but I love the artwork of the character sheets, the coins, the minis ... and the dramatic computer voice!!
Now that's a blast from the past!
This was a really fun video. My wife and I looked up the game on EBay. I hope you’re able to complete your set.
I loved this game, could not remember the name of it though, thanks for sharing!
I have 2 copies of this game sitting in my spare room. Couldn't get hold of the rest of the series... yet!
The ending had me laughing :D I own Mutant Chronicles which I got after I bought the Dark World aka "Das Schwarze Auge" (german ver). I still own both of them with all the add-on boards, like the village, labyrinth and a dinosaur battle field.
I've got that Mutant Chronicles game, and it is still pretty wicked! Still playable! Also, what do you mean you're not going to restore that game!? Dude, that's like free video content right there!! Would love to see you remove the paint from those models, and repaint a few. Would love to see you create the two missing wall sections (via scanning of the other and printing on cardstock, etc), and would love to see you cast molds for the missing weapons using your bits box (I'm sure you have a flail in there somewhere?!). DO EEET!! :)
Also...3D board anyone?! Create the board with dungeon tiles would be pretty easy, and dope!
WTF! For years I have been trying to remember the name of this board game. I had it when I was really young and thought back then that the models would look amazing painted. I eventually lost most of them or something and the game became a distant memory. Literally. Until a couple nights ago when I finally came across some of the game on ebay. And now all of a sudden you make a video about the same game.... That Manticore! awe MAN! I got this game at the same time I was learning about monster mythology and all the different beasts and crap like the gryphon, minotaur, gobilns, orks, giants and the MANTICORE.... I swear coincidences have me feeling like I'm Jim Carrey on the Trueman show...
Thanks for the dive. I have the Hero quest game from 90's and have been hoping to make a new box to hold my core and the 4 US expansion. 👍
You will definitely have to craft your own version of this.
I was watching this thinking it was going to be a stock standard "bought a thing from my childhood in A1++ condition", and, it wasn't. I could clearly see you being genuine about the condition of the game, and how you felt. I love how truthful this video is, and yes, I'd love to see an unboxing of the other boardgame too.
Plus, that whole Into the AM promo was the best one of those I've seen so far!
Thank you for the video! I hope you stumble across a better condition copy of the game one day, with all of the weapons, the Knight and the walls intact.
Mutant Chronicles was fun with some great components.
Traveller was my first game. I still have the box. My Little Brother kept it in his collection. He was always the better collector and keeper and curator than me.
my goodness. :D looks awesome, no wonder you played around with the pieces so much. ^^
so I went and asked ebay, and came up with the german version, curiously enough distributed under the name of a famous german RPG, "Das Schwarze Auge" (The Dark Eye), and located on cypria of all places... seems everything even decently complete goes for around 100 quid here.
watching it. maybe I'll cave in, who knows. :)
like it, want to see the mutant chronicle one
I had Darkworld AND Mutant Chronicles! Darkworld has a lot of great components but the game play was a bit shallow and the single board set up left it repetitive and more board gamey than HeroQuest. Mutant Chronicles was a great game, though! I remember spending many nights staying up way too late playing that game with my buddies!
Let’s see that video next!
Looked this up on ebay. They have a sealed one going for like $200.
Okay: I did know, that the Art Work looks familiar. The Rattle on the Back-Picture gave me the clou: I never owned one of these, but it was released as "Das schwazre Auge: Burg des schreckens" here in germany. (Though: I didn't know that the german board game publisher "Schmidt Spiel" bought any licenses. They were famous for ripofs, because you can't protect any game rules.)
Huzzah, oh what a trip down Memory Lane.
Lmao, loving the Blair Witch-y IntotheAM promo. 😂
AHHH!!!! SIEGE OF THE CITADEL!!! I played HOURS of that game on my porch as a kid. Would love to see you go through that. The remake just didn’t quite hit the mark, in my opinion. If you’re unfamiliar with the game, I think you’ll have a fun time going through it.
"Knock off warhammer models"!? How dare you!!! =D. Mutant Chronicles was the first RPG I came in to contact with, and I loved this boardgame vesion as well when it came out.
Dark world looks kind of fun too! I'll check that out some more.
Dark World was pretty dope, but when you revisit it as an adult you can really tell it's a Heroquest lite you'd give to your little brother.
I still think it’s the cooler LOOKING of the two though.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial I completely agree with you on that one. Especially given how the board has a dope castle.
Btw, i have many spare part of that game including walls! i've remade mine whole last year by buying a old incomplete set and kept the extra since.
Where can is send you my extra box?
if you still need it :)
Water-based Polyurethane on the wall sections.
I would have bought it as well.
While it may be far from a playable state, surely that main terrain piece and some minis could be made into a cool diorama?
Need another video for the other board game
I was watching one of your older videos and I have the hot wire table but the measurements on the table are in cm. How do you find inches?
You don’t. They all are in metric.
Amazing ad read. 😂
We had both games and I painted much of the pieces. They were fun but I let my stepson keep them when I got divorced. That's okay, I'm sure he enjoyed them.
Would be funny if the OP (original painter) found this vid.
Isn’t buying it on Facebook sort of the same as buying it on eBay?
Nice blair witch spoof
So that is why he is cosplaying as Mike for the rest of the video!❤
that's not cosplay, I'm just Canadian.
This is a Board Game SPin off of the German RPG The Dark Eye. They changed the Design a bit but you can still see the Dark Eye Logo. You can google it: DSA Burg des Schreckens. But it's still a Hero Quest rip off. The story behind DSA and this Spinn off is too long. It started with D&D. BUT: If yo have access to german Lebkuchen brands you might get access to the german version of this game.
Ask for your followers to find a better shaped boardgame :) Wish to help you with that But its the first time in heard of this game. Or maybe finding the missing pieces. So happy for your Happiness ^-^
'I don't know if people are going to love or hate this video.' I loved it!
Love the Blair Witch interlude.
"Can you promote our clothing brand on one of your videos? Maybe where are some of our stuff and give a link?". "No but I can film a found footage style video of me running through the woods being chased by an invisible monster but at least I'm warm and cozy in my nice fleecy."
To infodump a bit: as some people already pointed out, this game was originally developed by a German company (Schmidt Spiele). They had the TTRPG "Das Schwarze Auge" or short DSA, which is still alive and popular/infamous in Germany. So the German title of that boardgame was "Das Schwarze Auge". The development seemed to be quite the shitshow. Schmidt Spiele had the TTRPG which made good money and saw the success of Heroquest. So they went to one of the writers for DSA and asked him to write a German Heroquest. While he was working on it they changed their mind quite a bit, like wanting to include a soundchip which then was to expensive. The presentation of the writers concepts rarely went on for longer than 2 minutes while Schmidt Spiele Always had some parts they wanted to change. At some point the company hired some "British Pros" to work on the game. The original writer was flewn to London to participate in a 2 hour meeting of which 1,5 hours were about the box size. After that Schmidt Spiele decided, that the Brits would finish the game, also it would not play in the universe of DSA, so the only thing it still had in common was the logo and name. The pictured manticore for example was not even existent in the world at that time. Fortunately the original writer was paid handsomely. He was just asked how much he wanted, said the most ludicrous number that came to mind, the Schmidt Spiele exec sighed in relief and paid him. Thanks to the money the writer could work on writing a massive campaign for DSA even 10 years after. (DSA is kind of known for these longspanning campaigns and metaplots). Source: de.wiki-aventurica.de/wiki/Die_Burg_des_Schreckens
Apparently the game was a bit of a gateway for a good number of people, but basically everyone I talked to, who played it said it was nearly unplayable in the vanilla state and one had to use house rules and phantasy quite a bit. My brother had one as well. He gave it to me, in all its incomplete glory, when I started Warhammer as a child 24 years ago along with Heroquest and Space Crusade. I still want to paint and use the main temple for nostalgia reasons.
Thanks for the inside, I just wanted to drop a comment about the German version, but your entry was much more insightful.
Gameplay is kinda bad, still such a great box 😊
Thank you for the interesting info. I still have the Greek version in almost mint condition ( I think one of the weapons is missing). In Greece it was marketed as Dragon Game System. We already had HeroQuest with my brother which was basically super expensive for a kids board game at the time. This was even more expensive and the contents were super impressive, but soon we realised how lame the gameplay was. I’m not sure but is this the first time counter bases were ever used? I remember lamenting the fact that HeroQuest didn’t had those cool counter bases.
I have the US version of The Dark Eye core rulebook. Interesting system but a little crunchy for my tastes.
@@wh4teley it totally is. Feels more like bookkeeping than RPG.
I have Darkworld. I have the 'Village of Fear' box as well, but not the one with the dragon. Mine is complete. If you'd like me to photograph the missing wall sections so that you can print them out, let me know.
Appreciate that Lindy, I’m going to hold out for a complete set or more partial ones for parts.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficiallook for its alternative title Dragon Game System, I have my Greek edition in basically mint condition, I could scan those walls.
"This manticore art was burned into my mind as a kid"
*Proceeds to burn an advertisement into our minds*
Dark World?
Here in Germany it was sold as "Das schwarze Auge", wich is a german P&P RPG
Interesting.
Good old times.
I knew that eye on the board seemed familiar.
Plenty of people have done 3d printed or foam boards and terrain for HeroQuest. Pretty sure no one has done the same for Dark World. At least not on UA-cam.
Could make for a fun vid or even a few vids.
As impressive of a set piece as this is, probably because the game play is super basic. Way more on the beer and pretzels side of things than what can be done with HeroQuest, even with the expansions that were released in Europe.
This, dragon strike, hero quest, battlemasters was my go to
Loved the ad break. All spooky, but cozy. Eoic reboxing of a classic game.
love it. a brief glance to ten years from now when Jeremy is painstakingly restoring a wizened copy of 13 Dead End Drive with one of those desk mounted magnifyers.
(great ad short, btw)
Dark World!!! You found a treasure.
YES. This was my start, too! I never owned it, but my older brother's friend did, and I'd try to sneak a play with it every chance I got. That Manticore is likewise burned into mine... So good, and such a cheap find for you, well done! I'm going to start my own hunt for it, I think...
What an epic trip down memory lane. My influencer game was Starship Troopers. Tried playing it once as a kid and it was way beyond teen me. But I grabbed a paperback of the book at a garage sale, and my Heinlein collection started.😊
Awesome, that was my start in the hobby a few years back. We found an abandoned box in our house, only one firebomb spell missing, probably originally belonging to a relative of my wife. My sons were hyped for the game and I started painting the minis with heavy brushes full of citadel starter set paints. Now I am hundreds of minis in and very happy I picked up the hobby.
I found a copy of this game years ago I hit on lucky everything was their and the bonus of it was all the miniatures are painted to a very good standard found it on ebay payed around £20 only because I was the only one bidding on it ❤❤
Back when this came out, most of us nerds only had Testor Enamel Paints and crappy brushes. My 1980's D&D minis are all painted with Testors. :-)
Testors is still the shit
I’m actually painting up a couple of the ogres from this game right now! Probably my favorite sculpts from the box, but most of the enemy minis are pretty cool.
I am 90% sure your experience matches that of my brother who got this after I was 'too old and cool' to play games like that with him (much to my regret later in life). We had already burned through Heroquest by that point. I think we might have played it once or twice but he LOVED it with a passion and would play with it and set it up randomly. I believe I still have some of the accoutrements (the chests mostly) in my Mordheim scatter terrain box.
HOLY COW MUTANT CHRONICLES! god i'd forgotten about that. I got that wanting more heroquest style gameplay and it was brutally hard
Only tried mutant chronicles a few times, agree on it being hard.
Never played Dark World, but I picked up a few years back that castle section from a store. They had no idea where it came from; and neither did I until now!
I have since incorporated that section into a large terrain piece.
That is a respectable mullet in the video's thumbnail. I salute you, sir!
Yeah. I would love to see a restoration.
I can't describe how thrilled I was to see this thumbnail pop up. I was also introduced to this style of game by Dark World when I found it at a neighborhood yard sale in the mid 90's. And like you, I spent most of my time with the game assembling and playing with it without any consideration for the actual rules. Fast forward to about 4 years ago when I saw a complete and near pristine copy on eBay and I had to pull the trigger. Kudos to you for waiting to find a copy in the wild, even if it is missing a few pieces.
I am familiar with Mutant Chronicles only via the Doomtrooper card game, so now I am curious :-)
SIEGE OF THE CITADEEEEEL!!!! Please please please please make a video with that one! With Warzone Eternal about to go into retail Mutant Chronicles needs all the publicity it can get! ;)
The video was great! I think everybody in this hobby had a game like that as a kid, mine was a local version/tribute/rip-off of Talisman which was called "Magic Sword". I did play it a few times but never to its fullest, with all the expansions (which I did have). The funniest part is that after I finally got to play the original Talisman when it re-released it turned out that the rip-off was actually better XD
Great video. Congrats on the find! Warhammer Quest was my first dungeon crawler board game.
Mutant Chronicles was a fun board game. I never played the RPG. They made a bad movie based on the franchise, which I used to own a copy of. Ron Perlman was in it.
Great vid, would love to see Mutant Chronicles too! I looked on BGG for Dark World and apparently there were 2 expansions AND most Canadians know the game ;) according to the comments on there.
Never seen that game.
Mutant Chronicles tho? Played that in my early 20s (some 10+ years after the game came out) and it was realy fun.
You play a small campaign, and alternativ who plays the villain.
You get to draw cards with special powers to suprise the players. Like spawning in monsters etc.
I remeber so clearly the players rushing for the exit... and then I played a card that allowed me to turn a map-tile around. So suddenly they were alot further back and just next to my monsters 😅
It got a swanky new edition from kickstarter that was delivered like a year ago. Had I more time I would have loved to play that
Isnt it nice that a german product gets rebranded and renamed in canada.
You can see they changed to logo to hide the dark eye.
Its originally made by Schmidt Spiele to support the RPG "the dark eye" (Das Schwarze Auge).
It was my entry to reading novels to that game system along my first RPG.
Mutant Chronicles? Hell Yes!! Now thats a video I'm looking forward to!
Always videos full of inspiration ❤ I think that could be interesting looking how you can rebuild the scenarios of Dark World in a modern way with all the techniques and stuffs you have shown in theese years. For example, now that i've seen that secret passage mirror/paint i'm going to reproduce it in a scenarios of mine for d&d and i think my players will love it😊
Nostalgia is the best. Thanks for sharing.
Hopefully the Siege of Citadel is more complete. I know I have an extra one of those. Not sure I have an extra Dark World.
awesome! I have this game and the 2 expansions, "Village of Fear" and "Dragons gate" they all link together, loads of fun
I have this game! Still has my mom’s red nail polish on it for blood effects 😂
Now that you mention it took it I’d wager the models in my set were painted with nail polish.
That game looks rad, and your mullet was sick! I really enjoyed this video, and hope you do more of them.
Ha! I had that set too when I was a kid - Das Schwarze Auge, der burg Des schreckens. I don't speak a word of German, so I used it pretty much like you did 😂
I like this video. Sprinkling in a vid like this every so often would be cool, IMO.
dude Mutant Chronicles was amazing!
More of this.... like that mutant chronicle box!