First game i ever played on my amiga500 back in 1988....i was stunned...i am 51 years old now and still play this on an amiga500...You had to be there to witness the impact this computer made..
I was 18 when this came out. As an Gen-X who'd been there since the PET and ZX80 days, this was a jaw-dropper. I was an Atari guy by then and never fell out of love with my STFM, but from this point on I never quite shook that secret envy of what the Amiga could do.
my brother played it when i was a child of 7 years or so. it was 88 or so. Now i played it on emulator, i loved the music all the time, never went out of my head. Took me some time to understand the tricks, and it is still a brilliant game, a lot of fun !
this was one of my absolutely favorite games on the amiga. i had so much fun playing defender of the crown. most i played it with a friend. and alone too. it was great!
As a child i had a commodore 64 then the amiga 500 plus, i loved it. Despite the fact i was too young to understand games like DOTC, i remember the exiting part for me was the swordfighting in the castle, though i could never figure out how to play it and therefore i allways got beat, along with the jousting and most of the battles because i didn't know how to build an army lol. God bless you cubex55 for your extensive archive on amiga games, it's a pity i won't get to play them again though.
Won this game about a 800 times. I must have played this for over a month of continuous play time in total when i was young. I know all the ins and outs. Won with all characters, can win every jousting. Great addictive game, but actually full of bugs. Bugs were all your armys are reset to zero when the enemy takes a random castle far away; where your away team is suddenly duplicated in your home team (doubling your men), battle hangs when you click ferocious attack to fast. C64 has less bugs.
Damn! Whenever I hear the strains of "Defender Of The Crown", I really, REALLY MISS my Commodore Amiga 2500! DoTC, LoTRS, & TVS:F, were the three Programs that really showcased what a great graphics machine the Amiga 2500 was. In DoTC, I couldn't 'joust' worth a DAMN! But I was crazy for the music that signaled the Tournaments! I always saw myself as Robert Taylor's "Wilfred of Ivanhoe"!
If you drag the mouse around 21:01 you will see that a blonde girl flicker before Katherine. Must be some kind of graphics bug while randomizing the looks or something..
Nicely done, but you can complete the game a lot faster. Nice to see that you sticked around to trigger the Lady Rescue. But you forgot to show a few features of the game like 1) The aid of Robin, 2) Killing the opponents horse in the joust and 3) Raiding (ok its a lot like the rescue part) ^^ Nevertheless, nicely done good work! :-)
@ILoveKaters17 because the amiga version was the initial version, and because of financial problems, cinemaware released it without those planned extras. They needed to get the game out quick for revenue purposes.
There is a "trick", before the horses charge, you see a screen 3:30 in this screen you aim at the small striped white/blue tent with the tip of the pole. In the 90% of the cases you will win.
I know this is a bit late, but the way we always did it was by using Wolfric the Wild and putting the left edge of the mouse arrow on the neck of the horse pulling the wagon in the view of the entire parade ground. It never failed.
The graphics are much better on the Amiga version but its believe it or not it doesnt have as many features as the NES! And it doesnt look as hard either - the only way to hang onto territory in the NES version was to build mini on it, and garrison it with quite a lot of men, took ages.
It’s so good to finally see how this game ended after all these years..... I was shit at it and never quite understood the jousting and how to win it. It always seemed like luck to me.
Apparently, the "outflank" manouver was not in the Amiga version. Rushed, indeed. Also, in the C64 version it was impossible to call a tournament twice in a row. "The lords have not returned home from you last tournament" was the message.
I remember a moment when i was young... maybe around 14.. It was when i saw a Amiga for the first time, It started rather unimpressevly.. A white screen with a hand holding a disk, and then a blue screen with some info running on it... and then this... Golden letters on a stone wall, shining like they were real.. and music like nothing i had ever heard coming from a computer speaker... That was the Amiga. The Rolls Royce of Home Computers.
@Ermapeto I managed to win quite a lot. The lance always finished at its highest position after its going up and down. You just have to make sure that that position is right in the centre of their shield, where the two lines of the + meet.
When I played this on the Amiga 500, there was a cheat code where you hold down K while the game is loading. You start the game with 1024 knights. It's impossible to lose!
We used to have this for the NES, but at the time, I was too little to figure out how to play. After seeing the playthough, I think I understand what to do now. :P
@Ermapeto Its almost impossible to with with anyone but Wolfric the Wild, as he was the only one with the STRONG rating in jousting. I always played as Geofrey Longsword.
Great game! I completed this Amiga game 5-10 times. I still have this for the Amiga 500 and also Commodore 64. And if i remember correctly, you have to hold K key to receave yourself 1000 knights at the beginning. =)
I have only played the CD-I version, starting in 1994. I stay play it occasionally to this day. There is an energy meter in the swordfights so you can make an exit if you saw you were clearly going to lose. Also in that version you don't need to capture every territory to win. If you hold all the home castles of the Normans you win even if other Saxons (the other shades of blue) still have some territory. Is this true in every version? Logically then, if another Saxon captures all the Norman castles the game should also end, but it doesn't.
How in the hell do the multiple battles against enemy armies always result in the hero's army only losing 3 or 4 men at most? Are the calculations done differently in the Amiga version or was the "Ferocious Attack" option just bugged somehow? Because I played this dozens of times on IBM PC and was never able to lose that few men even with overwhelming odds.That said, this was fun to watch. Essentially, the perfect DOTC game with no mistakes (other than trying to assault a castle without a catapult, which was just a misclick, I'm sure).
I miss that game, played it on the amiga when I was a kid... didn't get lucky with the saxon girl though... great game, shame about the remake (not the ports) of it... could you please put up "Sinbad and the Falcon's Throne"?
That would be the flag of the Knights Hospitaller. As the game is set in the 12th century, this would be fitting with the religious Crusades of the era. The Danish flag later 'fell' to it's people in the early 13th century, it's origin likely to be Knights Hospitaller as well.
Oh and the Atari ST version a had a few more features, you could switch ammo on the catapults and during fights you would get an animation of the soldiers.
@Bruciatino You can download an amiga emulator at amigaforever website. Its only 10 bucks and all u do is download the link-install and your ready to play any amiga game. They have all the cinemaware titles too.
Yeah, the reason the game lacks certain elements, was because Cinemaware had financial difficulties at the time and needed cash. They had to release it early for the Amiga. Still, it was my favourite game back in 87, and it's fun even today. :)
hakudoshi, generally I picked G. Longsword (swordplay) for raiding and rescuing the girl, jousted only for fame. A few times I picked Wolfric the Wild, best jouster in the game, called tournaments whenever I could, and won land that way.
Was there a way to change from boulders to fire on the siege? I always heard there was. After 30+ years, I downloaded this from GOG and finally one a jousting tournament!
I remember that while playing Ivanhoe and whenever I had to raid a castle (for loot or a maiden), I mostly got my behind handed to me in the swordfights. What's the secret for winning these bouts?
![Nuclear War Longplay (Amiga) [50 FPS]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_SFq7q3Yueo/mqdefault.jpg)
As soon as I heard that music, I felt like a kid again for a moment.
***** me to!
same here!
+Keith Allen :-))
This looks like a kid's game... you idiots! [*smack!*]
the moment I fell in love with the Amiga. Can't believe it still looks and sounds so good 25 years on
Well that was a trip down memory lane, I remember being stunned by the amazing graphics and sound back in the day. It was 1986.
It's a shame the Amiga series faded into obscurity. It was a great machine, and WAY ahead of the competition in the late 80s.
one of the most beautiful memories i have of my childhood :D thanks for the video, i watched it all and i wish i could play it again at least once :D
You can, online i believe lemon amiga is site
One of the best Amiga games around. This is what made us fall in love with Amiga in the late 80's as kids. It looked and played so incredible.
Groundbreaking game on 1986 Amiga. It was a shock to witness these great graphics on a computer game those days...:)
Shame it didn’t match the Atari ST version.
Geez, talk about a trip down memory lane. I remember playing this when I was five! Thanks for putting it up.
Thanks a LOT, Wallace!!
I was in my thirties, when I bought MY Amiga 2500. You insolent little WHIPPERSNAPPER!
Hard sometimes to comprehend the game is 20 years old.Back in 1986 it was dynamite and had a nice medieval feel to it.
First game i ever played on my amiga500 back in 1988....i was stunned...i am 51 years old now and still play this on an amiga500...You had to be there to witness the impact this computer made..
I was 18 when this came out. As an Gen-X who'd been there since the PET and ZX80 days, this was a jaw-dropper. I was an Atari guy by then and never fell out of love with my STFM, but from this point on I never quite shook that secret envy of what the Amiga could do.
This game was brilliant! I'm feeling very nostalgic right now!😃
One of the best Amiga games ever made!!!!!! TY for this video.
I never could joust, but Geoffrey Longsword and I raided heaps.. this was my SECOND FAVOURITE GAME EVER when I was little.
my brother played it when i was a child of 7 years or so. it was 88 or so.
Now i played it on emulator, i loved the music all the time, never went out of my head.
Took me some time to understand the tricks, and it is still a brilliant game, a lot of fun !
this was one of my absolutely favorite games on the amiga. i had so much fun playing defender of the crown. most i played it with a friend. and alone too. it was great!
Gotta love how the image of Ivanhoe is smiling after he's scored... :p
As a child i had a commodore 64 then the amiga 500 plus, i loved it. Despite the fact i was too young to understand games like DOTC, i remember the exiting part for me was the swordfighting in the castle, though i could never figure out how to play it and therefore i allways got beat, along with the jousting and most of the battles because i didn't know how to build an army lol.
God bless you cubex55 for your extensive archive on amiga games, it's a pity i won't get to play them again though.
20:31 is of course why we all played this game.
lol i always looked forward to this bit :)
Joseph Dickson lol, yep. I haven't got to that part yet, but I know exactly what you mean :)
it's sad I knew exactly when you were talking about before even looking at the clip lol
Man I loved this game back in the day 8)
I used to love this game. This vid brings back some really good memories
Despite the fact that the main theme was played in simple synthesis, it still sounds grandly epic.
Same thing i was thinking
This looks a lot easier than I remember when I was 7
wow.. this brings back memories :) one of my fav games a kid! :) the music is timeless :D
Won this game about a 800 times. I must have played this for over a month of continuous play time in total when i was young. I know all the ins and outs. Won with all characters, can win every jousting. Great addictive game, but actually full of bugs. Bugs were all your armys are reset to zero when the enemy takes a random castle far away; where your away team is suddenly duplicated in your home team (doubling your men), battle hangs when you click ferocious attack to fast. C64 has less bugs.
Ich finde die Grafik heute immer noch geil! Das Spiel war auch super. Da werden wieder Erinnerungen an die gute alte Zeit wach! :-)
This brings back some memories :)
11:30 The enemy army was 0 but they still lost a man. That was one strange death.
I loved this game ,never stopped playing it,he only completed in on 20 odd minutes
I like the shadows at 19:36.
Yeah, and do that with 8 sprites, amazing!
Wilfred of ivanhole, the man who singlehandedly united half of england thanks to his jousting skills
Damn! Whenever I hear the strains of "Defender Of The Crown", I really, REALLY MISS my Commodore Amiga 2500!
DoTC, LoTRS, & TVS:F, were the three Programs that really showcased what a great graphics machine the Amiga 2500 was. In DoTC, I couldn't 'joust' worth a DAMN! But I was crazy for the music that signaled the Tournaments! I always saw myself as Robert Taylor's "Wilfred of Ivanhoe"!
If you drag the mouse around 21:01 you will see that a blonde girl flicker before Katherine. Must be some kind of graphics bug while randomizing the looks or something..
Nicely done, but you can complete the game a lot faster. Nice to see that you sticked around to trigger the Lady Rescue. But you forgot to show a few features of the game like 1) The aid of Robin, 2) Killing the opponents horse in the joust and 3) Raiding (ok its a lot like the rescue part) ^^
Nevertheless, nicely done good work! :-)
what a great game with great music
Great vid. So many memories! Thankyou for posting this.
I love Defender of the crown, one of my favorite Amiga games :)
Amazing what 1 meg can do.. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
awesome graphics for the old time
Christ i remember playing this when i was about 10 , looks amazing for the day and age , a pre curser to the total war series methinks :o)
My favorite part in this game was the end theme, when the hero is crowned king. An epic piece of music!
One of my favourite Amiga games. Thank you!
Annnddd that's how it's done!!!! I played this game for 7 years as a kid.. & never mastered it. That was amazing!
I think he has played this a few times. Well done!
One of the first Amiga classics.
you got to admit the graphics from when this was made 86 to its release still quite good to today's ones
Ahhh notalgia... this game makes my inner child happy. Just the music spark a warm feeling of fuzziness.
@ILoveKaters17 because the amiga version was the initial version, and because of financial problems, cinemaware released it without those planned extras. They needed to get the game out quick for revenue purposes.
There is a "trick",
before the horses charge, you see a screen 3:30
in this screen you aim at the small striped white/blue tent with the tip of the pole.
In the 90% of the cases you will win.
YOXO Sexy Shop thank you for that. I was always useless at jousting. I can't wait to be able to play this again after all of these years :)
Once you know what pixel you needed the joust to match up to, you never lost :)
I know this is a bit late, but the way we always did it was by using Wolfric the Wild and putting the left edge of the mouse arrow on the neck of the horse pulling the wagon in the view of the entire parade ground. It never failed.
Same for me. As it looks here, you have to aim so that the top point of lance movement aims at the center of the shield.
The graphics are much better on the Amiga version but its believe it or not it doesnt have as many features as the NES! And it doesnt look as hard either - the only way to hang onto territory in the NES version was to build mini on it, and garrison it with quite a lot of men, took ages.
It’s so good to finally see how this game ended after all these years..... I was shit at it and never quite understood the jousting and how to win it. It always seemed like luck to me.
Apparently, the "outflank" manouver was not in the Amiga version. Rushed, indeed. Also, in the C64 version it was impossible to call a tournament twice in a row. "The lords have not returned home from you last tournament" was the message.
Yes the music was great. I have it as Ringtone on my celphone for a long time
I remember a moment when i was young... maybe around 14.. It was when i saw a Amiga for the first time, It started rather unimpressevly.. A white screen with a hand holding a disk, and then a blue screen with some info running on it... and then this... Golden letters on a stone wall, shining like they were real.. and music like nothing i had ever heard coming from a computer speaker... That was the Amiga. The Rolls Royce of Home Computers.
One of the best game ever!
I feel your pain, and the horses sure-as-hell feel ours!
@Ermapeto I managed to win quite a lot. The lance always finished at its highest position after its going up and down. You just have to make sure that that position is right in the centre of their shield, where the two lines of the + meet.
The bad thing about the swordfight sequences were that you never knew which one would win until it was too late.
amazing masterpiece
mindblowing for 1986
Rings of Power has a lot in common with this game
the trick in jousting is simply put ur spear on the stomach of ur enemy(middle between spear and shield)
When I played this on the Amiga 500, there was a cheat code where you hold down K while the game is loading. You start the game with 1024 knights. It's impossible to lose!
We used to have this for the NES, but at the time, I was too little to figure out how to play. After seeing the playthough, I think I understand what to do now. :P
Thanks to bring back so good memories. Just too bad you didn't finish the game with Lady Rebecca of York.
@Ermapeto Its almost impossible to with with anyone but Wolfric the Wild, as he was the only one with the STRONG rating in jousting. I always played as Geofrey Longsword.
Great game! I completed this Amiga game 5-10 times. I still have this for the Amiga 500 and also Commodore 64. And if i remember correctly, you have to hold K key to receave yourself 1000 knights at the beginning. =)
I have only played the CD-I version, starting in 1994. I stay play it occasionally to this day. There is an energy meter in the swordfights so you can make an exit if you saw you were clearly going to lose. Also in that version you don't need to capture every territory to win. If you hold all the home castles of the Normans you win even if other Saxons (the other shades of blue) still have some territory. Is this true in every version? Logically then, if another Saxon captures all the Norman castles the game should also end, but it doesn't.
How in the hell do the multiple battles against enemy armies always result in the hero's army only losing 3 or 4 men at most? Are the calculations done differently in the Amiga version or was the "Ferocious Attack" option just bugged somehow? Because I played this dozens of times on IBM PC and was never able to lose that few men even with overwhelming odds.That said, this was fun to watch. Essentially, the perfect DOTC game with no mistakes (other than trying to assault a castle without a catapult, which was just a misclick, I'm sure).
+Phil C. At 22:04 one of the men commits suicide :)
I miss that game, played it on the amiga when I was a kid... didn't get lucky with the saxon girl though... great game, shame about the remake (not the ports) of it...
could you please put up "Sinbad and the Falcon's Throne"?
That would be the flag of the Knights Hospitaller. As the game is set in the 12th century, this would be fitting with the religious Crusades of the era.
The Danish flag later 'fell' to it's people in the early 13th century, it's origin likely to be Knights Hospitaller as well.
Oh and the Atari ST version a had a few more features, you could switch ammo on the catapults and during fights you would get an animation of the soldiers.
Cedric of Rotherwood looks like David Hasselhoff. Seriously, you hum a tune, enter it in youtube and there it is. I love this intromusic.
loved this game, felt great the first time i completed it.
Oh what a blast from the past! I was always useless at jousting lol
when I first played this I was around 12... I never succeeded in winning the tournaments :)
i just love this game.... my childhood
i've never realized that, thanks.
Pure ruddy class!
Man, I was *so* bad at jousting....
I still can't get over how 1 soldier would always die even if you fought against zero.
I was always losing in tournaments. =(
I remember how disapointed I was playing this on the Amiga. It was quite dumbed down gameplay from the c64. But the graphics was amazing.
What is the Trick at jousting. I never win one!
The Game was Super!
The Amiga version had a stupid duplicate bug where you could amass huge amounts of troops. This was fixed in the overall better C64 verson.
Good times.
It lowers the morale of the defending forces. If the wall is undamaged, the defenders may win even against great odds.
I just sent the link to this to the creator of the game - Kellyn Beeck.
A true classic.
Cedric of Rotherwood SERIOUSLY looks like David Hasselhoff...
You mean Geoffrey Longsword, right? ;-)
Most recognizable game soundtrack ever?
@Bruciatino You can download an amiga emulator at amigaforever website. Its only 10 bucks and all u do is download the link-install and your ready to play any amiga game. They have all the cinemaware titles too.
I never played this game when I had an Amiga but remember hearing a lot about it. But watching it now, there doesn't appear to be much to it at all.
Yeah, the reason the game lacks certain elements, was because Cinemaware had financial difficulties at the time and needed cash. They had to release it early for the Amiga. Still, it was my favourite game back in 87, and it's fun even today. :)
4:25 I think this is the first time ever I see this message.
I beat this on the C64. The jousting on the Amiga was buggy and I could never win.
Wow I tried to win a land in the tournament. I didn't manage it. I always failed. What's the secret?
Yes, me too! I always failed at the Tjost.
Maybe my Noobskills ;), but it looks so easy when you do it.
hakudoshi I too, was absolutely useless at jousting, but I could always rescue the lady :)
hakudoshi, generally I picked G. Longsword (swordplay) for raiding and rescuing the girl, jousted only for fame. A few times I picked Wolfric the Wild, best jouster in the game, called tournaments whenever I could, and won land that way.
Cool music!
Was there a way to change from boulders to fire on the siege? I always heard there was. After 30+ years, I downloaded this from GOG and finally one a jousting tournament!
I wonder why they didn't make the battles to be more spectacular - like in the C64 version.
I remember that while playing Ivanhoe and whenever I had to raid a castle (for loot or a maiden), I mostly got my behind handed to me in the swordfights. What's the secret for winning these bouts?