History of HeroQuest | MB & Games Workshop's Greatest Boardgame?
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- How was the board game classic HeroQuest created? And who really designed it? What expansions were released and what ever became of the projects that didn't make it to store shelves? Find out all that and more in this complete history of HeroQuest!
In 1989 MB Games and Games Workshop released HeroQuest and changed the lives of a generation of young gamers, forging lifelong hobbyists and epic memories set in stone. I've traced the history of the game from its first conception as D&D in a box to the global smash it became!
Correction: The Elven Warriors and Archers included in the Elf Quest Pack were in fact enemy models and not allies as I stated in the video.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:17 Stephen Baker and the First Beginnings
03:53 Designing the Game
06:27 HeroQuest!
07:27 Regional Variations
09:44 Who Designed HeroQuest, or the Jervis Johnson Question
12:09 The Warhammer Old World
13:56 Citadel Miniatures
17:51 Les Edwards & Gary Chalk - Legends
19:30 Advertising HeroQuest
21:06 Expansions
27:57 Unreleased Quests!
30:56 Comics, Stickers, Books, Video Games & Puzzles
36:58 Advanced Heroquest
38:14 HeroQuest by Any Other Name
39:42 HasbroQuest
41:04 Summary
42:46 ...But that is another story.
Sources:
MojoNation Stephen Baker Interview - mojo-nation.com/heroquest-inv...
Bryan Ansell’s Unreleased HeroQuest Prototypes -
eldritchepistles.blogspot.com/...
Bob Naismith Interview -
forum.yeoldeinn.com/viewtopic....
Graeme Davis’ HeroQuest Development -
graemedavis.wordpress.com/201...
Stuff of Legends Gargoyles of Barda -
www.solegends.com/citrr/1rr12b...
Toco Unreleased Expansion Art -
tocoking.be/ahq/unreleased.html
The Unreleased HeroQuest Expansions at Ye Olde Inn -
forum.yeoldeinn.com/viewtopic...
HeroQuest Comic at Boys Adventure Comics Blog -
boysadventurecomics.blogspot.c...)
HeroQuest Comic at Fluffenhammer - www.thefluffenhammer.com/arti...
Dave Morris’ Shares HeroQuest novel memories at his blog -
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2016...
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2017...
Arbitor Ian’s Fimir Video -
• What Happened to FIMIR...
Collecting Citadel Minis Wiki - www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com
Lost Minis Wiki - www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki
Stuff of Legends - www.solegends.com
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I am 49 years old this year. When I was a teenager I was at a store looking at all the board games when Heroquest caught eye. The cover art was amazing! I flipped the box over and when I saw the contents I was instantly sold. I took it home and started painting the pieces right away. My friends and I loved the game until the day I got married and gave the painted game with all the expansions to my best friend. Last year Heroquest was reintroduced to the world and now I’m obsessed with painting the new pieces again. I even created two larger game boards and sent one back to my friend in Michigan.
I love Heroquest.
It’s genuinely timeless!
The best thing about Heroquest is that I finally own it!
For those that didn't know this game is towards the top of my "Top 5 for things I missed out on growing up that I intend to rectify before I die list"
I was 4 when it released, so while I knew of it because of the phenomenal commercial (Brode Swoad!) Wasn't able to play until an overnight at a friend's house when I was about 9-10. We played several games and I was blown away. As soon as I got home I told my parents all about it, and did everything in my power to convince them to buy it for me. Long and short was we were poor and there was no budget for it. So I gave up on it and moved on.
Fast forward to my late 20's and a friend of mine tells me all about it. The history, expansions, US versus UK releases, his grail find at a dinky thrift store. All that excitement of my youth comes bubbling up and I start scouring for a copy. Complete copies that hadn't been thrashed were prohibitively expensive, and buying several thrashed copies to cobble together a complete set would still prove quite pricey. While I kept my eyes open, and checked back from time to time on 2nd hand markets, I had accepted that barring a miracle it was just not going to happen.
Then Hasbro announces that they are remaking the game. All new sculpts, updated artwork, the works. But keeping the game mechanics basically untouched. And they are going a quasi Kickstarter to launch it. Meaning I can have a BRAND NEW copy with expansions (that sold for silly amounts of money mind you), plus brand new quests and minis! So my Christmas present from my wife was my pledge for this game.
And now having it in my hand, it was worth the wait. The minis are sharp, artwork stunning, quality components, and there is so much content. I'm sure there are some Heroquest purists that take issue with stylization or some details within the updates. But to them I will say that I am finally getting to embark on an adventure 25 years overdue. So sod off!
The best thing about Heroquest is that I finally own it.
Glad to hear you got your copy!
Some years ago I picked up an original HQ from a charity shop. I donated it to my then 8-year old nephews. Several years later, they now run a D&D campaign. Mission accomplished.
A perfect gaming trajectory!
The best thing about Heroquest is this video of the History of Heroquest!
You’re too kind!
Ah yes, the best game ever and anyone who says otherwise is wrong!
Well it’s hard to argue with the barbarian’s muscularity!
The best thing about heroquest is the heroquest!
Broudsowd
Overzealous fans like you are the exact reason I've avoided this game for so long.
That, my friend, was a reference to a famous Heroquest video by BardicBroadcasts.@@Kyleology
This is the Lawful Good version of Bardicbroadcast's chaotic evil heroquest review.
Lovely video. I've really been enjoying these deep dives into tabletop history.
Haha, that is very fine company! Really glad you’re enjoying the videos!
Yeah me too, really great channel 👍
I got my copy of HeroQuest for £5 from WH Smiths when they mispriced them (was supposed to be a lot more). My mum argued with the manager until he gave in!
Ah, such fond memories. Still got it, taped together box and a broken elf sword but all there, after all those years. And now have the re- release ! What a time
This game (and reading the Lotr books) is responsible for my obsession with fantasy and Warhammer. 😊
I love HeroQuest! My closest friend and I would play every Friday night, he would "DM" and I would play at two characters. HeroQuest got my friends and I into D&D years later.
HQ was the perfect stepping stone to traditional RPGs - a proper gateway!
I never played HeroQuest back in the day but I found a copy of the original game in a charity shop a few years ago for £2.50. I wasn't sure it had all the stuff in it to begin with but got it home and it turned out, all there! Played a couple of games with friends to have the experience and whilst other dungeon crawler adventure games do stuff better nowadays (rolling to move...nooooo), there is a neat charm to the game and definitely one that I'll crack out more and more.
£2.50! Absolute bargain! There’s definitely been plenty of innovations and advancements since, but I agree about that old school charm. Plus the nostalgia is strong!
Well, I found a copy of HeroQuest for $4AU at a local charity shop. It was missing a few pieces, but I was able to rectify that problem by getting a more complete set of the game from a local antique and curio shop for $18AU. I combined both contents into a single set, and now I pride myself for having it. I also own copies of Space Crusade and Battle Masters, so I have the complete range of MB/GW games. Lucky!
Fully painted a set of HQ was a great infection vector for a generation and i'm happy to say one i've used to bring the next generation into the worlds of adventuring and beating up monsters to nick their stuff
I've said it a couple of times now but your videos are really well created. Amazing to think you're less than 20 vids in? This channel going to balloon if you keep this content level up 👏
I am always happy to hear such a fine compliment! Here’s to the next 20 videos!
Agreed!
The best thing about HeroQuest is getting videos like this. Wow! What a video. Best one yet.
Space Crusade next please. 👌
Cheers Stevo! Already got you covered - Space Crusade video is live!
ua-cam.com/video/gKCPk2yD7L0/v-deo.html
@@jordansorcery YES!!
Ah yes of course you did! I have already watched it and commented. Lol
I play HQ with my 5 year old daughter. She loves it and plays as the mage. She knows all spells by the images! Passing walls, healing, sleep.. :D
That's so sweet. It is really lovely to think that this game which was so influential to so many of us has gone on to be something shared with the next generation as well. Awesome stuff!
Great video (again)
This was the most potent of gateway drugs - I'm still at it 30 years later!
It hooked me too!
This is fantastic. As a huge hero quest fan I’m loving this video. Thanks for all the effort put in.
Thank you! I’m just glad it was worth it!
Gremlin also developed a HeroQuest game for the NES, it was finished, but never released. the ROM was found a few years ago and some official repros have come out since.
Oh wow, that’s cool! I’d not seen that - HQ always a few more hidden treasures!
Great stuff! next stop -> BattleMasters!
It’s on the list!
I am from Greece and i am 40 years old, my Grandmother gave this to me for Christmas when i was 7 or 8 yo.
She was a simple person that lived all her life as a farmer in a small village of about 1000 people and so she did not know anything about high fantasy and stuff like that and i never talked/hinted or asked from her this game, i did not even know it existed yet i have no idea how she found it and bought it for me and my twin brother in a time where everything with blood and monsters was heavily criticized from the society.
To this day this game still is the best thing anyone has ever gave to me and even though my grandmother passed way i keep this in mint condition to remind me of her and her out of the box thinking.
That’s such a lovely story, what a wonderful gift! It’s so much more than the game in the box isn’t it, really it’s the gift of an entire hobby and passion!
I loved this game so much I bought it twice and made my own homebrew expansion to it. Its a great game and I really hope one day game makers would realize that there is a market for role playing board game slightly more detailed than HeroQuest, but without all the rules, and class limitations put in D&D and Pathfinder. The choosing, team work, stories and unpredictability is what makes this type of game so wonderful in my opinion.
It's so funny because I remember playing this game as a kid with my brother, sister, and my mom's then husband. I had a lot of fun playing it and when I found it on Amazon I bought it to play with my kids. Thank you for such an in depth look into not only the history of the game but everything surrounding it too. Fantastic job
That’s awesome, I love that this game from childhood is now being passed on to the next generation too. Incredible legacy for Stephen Baker and the others behind such a great game!
Slightly too pricey,
Loved that game I still remember picking it out for my dad for Christmas. Them not doing the 3 panel board makes sense as they would have need more monsters and furniture in the set.
Good point!
As a kinda game designer myself, I sure know that the look of a game is a lot more important that one would think of. For heroquest, the carbox furnitures, doors, and Citadel Miniature minis were maybe even more important than the rules which are... clumsy. on gameplay, Heroquest is my least favourite among the 3 MB/GW games. Yet I sometime play it again with friends.
Actually the american version may have indeed corrected those gameplay weakness ! gotta look for this version someday ^^
As for my personnal, best thing I recall from HeroQuest is a moment where, one of the characters was struggling with an orc, the dwarf comes in the room, and instead of attacking the orc, decides to search for treasures and happens to find another orc xD
42:47 - Brilliance exemplified. Bravo! 🥳
A masterclass good sir. Like you, I was introduced into this hobby via HeroQuest. Then Space Crusade, Advanced Heroquest, Space Hulk and WFB. I just wish I'd picked up Warhammer Quest. It's nigh on impossible to find now and I refuse to part with a kidney to afford one. I'm currently working on an Advanced Heroquest project so I'm really looking forward to your video on that. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! I made a terrible mistake and got rid of my complete Warhammer Quest set years ago. Then spent the last few years buying it again part by part to avoid the mega price tag!
Brings back a lot of memories... I have long since moved on to the likes of Descent and Gloomhaven, but HeroQuest is where it all started...
HeroQuest feels like the first door on the dungeon crawling map for so many of us, step through it and a hundred other dungeon battling delights await!
This was my gateway to Games Workshop gaming, making the connection between the Games Worksop logo on the box and in a White Dwarf in WHSmith, was the reason I’m a wargamer now. Another awesome video, learnt so much I didn’t know about the game.
It was the ultimate first step on a long hobby journey! Still love HQ!
This and my snes were my best Christmas presents ever.
Hard to beat either!
I loved heroquest as a kid. I want the re-release but my goodness is it ever expensive! I feel like my son and I could have a lot of fun with it.
Expensive, and the expansions can add up fast! It looks like they’ve done a lot of good stuff with the update tbf though
Thats a trip of nostalgia, if only id found you sooner i might have intercepted my mom’s move sooner and got my dads copy of this amazing child hood memory!! Such an amazing game!!
Advanced HeroQuest took so much of my young life. I ended up expanding the solo rules in it to the extent I ended up being a TTRPG night of only one member, every night. I blame AHQ for developing into the forever GM I am today after almost 3 decades.
I have attempted to research every aspect of this game, but even so, your video has revealed a few more secrets. Thanks for the great content!
Glad I could uncover a few extra facts! Thanks for commenting!
You know UA-cam randomly recommended your channel
To me…no idea how or why but man I’ve enjoyed binging your videos this week 😊 I used to play hero quest etc with this Canadian kid who was in my school on the Isle of Wight and they were some happy memories
I'm glad it did! Thanks for taking a gamble on the video!
I have a lot of fond memories of this game back when I was a kid. My whole family would play it and we'd really have a blast.
It was such a wonderful family game, and so different to most others at the time!
I knew a fellow magic user would catch the cunning ruse that the Gargoyle is a Bloodthirster in disguise! Loved this video! Keep up the fantastic work!
-Ghul Drahtz Necromancer Extrodinare
It takes trained eyes like ours!
I still have the Milton Bradley Hero Quest box I bought around 1990 or so when I was in high school. I think there are a couple of miniatures missing that I used while playing D&D and subsequently lost.
The dangers of bundling all that gaming goodness in a backpack and running round to a mate’s house! At least they were lost doing what they were there for, making games great!
This is so thorough.
You left out the Return of the Witch Lord video game.
I didn’t even realise they’d done this, it totally got past me!
Its available separately or in a combo box version. I haven't played it though. Your research and knowledge was impressive nonetheless.
The 'what about meeeeeeee' chaos model always reminded me of Arkon Stormrider from the 1982 Speciality Set 1 - Champions of Chaos
That’s a great shout, I think you’re spot on there!
Loved this game, even had the expansions
"And then I noticed that it was a gargoyle. Rolls 4 dice in defence as well as attack!"
Absolute beast!
HeroQuest was also my start into the hobby and with the relaunch i’m back again. Cool video, thanks!
This was GREAT! Really enjoyed this - There was a LOT I didn't know!
Thank you Jordan!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Keep them coming Jordan!
Will do!
I bought every expansion available to me in the UK and played this game so much it was awesome. And this was the stepping stone that took me to Warhammer a few years later, and then on to Bloodbowl the game I still play. So GW probably have HeroQuest to thank for all the money I have given them over the years.
Oh, and the box art was simply awesome. It's so vivid and alive telling a whole story.
Same here! HQ was such a massive influence. And yeah, that box is just epic!
Awesome video. I was one of those kids who had their imagination captured by this game 30 years ago. Love it and everything about it, now nearing our 40's my brother and I are busting out our copy this weekend to relive it.
Thanks so much for the video Jordan. About 2 years ago I combined a few old copies of heroquest, printed off some ye old inn cards, painted all the minis and did a complete restoration. I started playing the game with 10 year olds at the primary school I worked at. The kids love it. It is great to see them engage in collaborative gameplay too.
I just bought the new Heroquest, and that explains why I look at this video so late. Although I'm 52, I never had the original Heroquest, nor knew anyone that had it. But on a christmas long ago, my mom actually gave two of the extensions, (She knew I liked games like this, but of course, could'nt tell what needed what to play!) Kellar's Keep and Wizards of Morcar. Strangely enough, while I live in Canada, the local library had the european versions. In the end, I used the quests with another game I was playing at the time, the Dark Eye, (French edition, it didn't exist in english then.) and had some good fun with them, even without Heroquest! I still have the minis, cards and the quest books, but most tokens are scattered to the winds.
Amazing trip through my childhood. Thank you for the fond look back of christmas and family fun. Amazing job Jordan. Well done.
My pleasure, thank you for watching!
My friend has an original GW box set from the 90s and we play every thursday night. We're on the second last quest in the main game.
Amazing, I’m jealous! Sounds like an epic campaign
As an Australian, I 100% got the UK version of the original two expansions. I remember the cover art very clearly.
I played this in 1991. I still remember the ad for it.
"I'll use my broadsword..."
"Fire of Wraith..."
Then we got Advanced HeroQuest. F'ing amazing.
Those HQ and Space Crusade ads were mind blowing at the time! And totally with you on AHQ, what a game
Fantastic stuff! Please please please do a video on Advanced Heroquest. It meant so much to me and hardly anyone remembers it
I'd love to get some time on AHQ, I loved it back in the day!
This and Space Crusade were my entries toward Warhammer in the early 90s
The perfect one two punch to knock us into a GW hobby coma for life!
Hero Quest, 1st Ed Space Hulk, and Battlemasters were my intro to GW here in the states. I didn't realize how lucky I really was to have that space hulk set and today my teenage nephew has possession of it. It is still in very excellent shape to boot. Love you channel!
That’s an incredible line up to get you started in GW! Would love to get my hands on 1st edition Space Hulk these days!
My mother and I used to play this so much in the early to mid-1990s and it was so much fun. I was only a tween and a young teen, but HQ really opened me up to how brilliant and fun role-playing games could be. I still have the original 1990 copy of the game (with miniatures I painted myself) in my hall closet. It's complete in box with everything.
I love it! Those are the memories that stay with us, just fantastic family gaming - it's why I think these games often mean so much to us, just like a direct link to that wonderful past!
The good guy was called Magnus and the bad guy, Morcar. I remember getting a chill playing this game as a kid, when I realised their names were an anagram of mine! 😱
That is fun!
Awesome video my dude! I played HQ in the 90s at my friends house and many years later in 2020, my girlfriend got me a 100% complete version of the game for my birthday. Since then I play as much as I can and bought some more original minis, furniture and cards to upgrade my own cracking scenarios! Truly the best game ever made...
It's definitely stood the test of time! Thanks for watching!
@@jordansorcery True words! It's still excellent! And keep up your awesome work, my friend!
HeroQuest was my introduction to board games (beyond Scrabble and Monopoly) as a hobby as well as high fantasy. I got it for Christmas, and I have such fond memories playing with my father and brother. I even re-bought the game several years ago off eBay (before it was reproduced), and played with my children. Thanks for the video.
Mine too, such a fantastic first step into fantasy board games and the tabletop hobby! Wonderful to hear you’re able to keep the legacy alive with you kids too!
HeroQuest was my entry into the miniature hobby. I always played as the Dwarf. This led to WFB and literally hundreds of Dwarfs. To this day I have 2 complete and painted WFB Dwarf armies (one plastic, one metal) as well as a Dwarf army for KoW and a 12mm Pendraken Dwarf army. My wife doesn‘t understand the obsession! 😅
Thanks for the fun video!
My pleasure! That’s great, it’s amazing how much these classic games can imprint on our psyche and inform game and army choices for decades! I respect your commitment to the ancestor gods!
The best thing about HeroQuest is ... well, everything really! Love this game, even though StarQuest/Space Crusade has always been my favourite!
It’s always a tough choice between the two, and often depends on my mood! But it’s hard to argue just how influential HQ has been over the years!
just discovered your channel, i first played HeroQuest at a friends house, probebly in 1990, then as you said, Space Crusade, Space Hulk ect ect, well now i'm in my 40's and i just got the latest version of HeroQuest through from amazon, not gonna lie, i'm so excited to get playing
Welcome aboard! The new version of HQ does look awesome, I’m impressed with what they’ve done, though I still haven’t gotten hold of it myself yet!
@@jordansorcery amazon has it for around £60 at the mo, thats why i took the plunge and got it
I've had HQ boxed up and stuck in a corner of my room for decades. Wonderful video, thanks!
Thank you! It’s such a classic, well worth hanging on to all that time. And worth digging out for a retro game every now and again!
I am so happy heroQuest have a second life. Bring young kids to the fantasy world!
Brilliant content, mate. Heroquest holds a very special place in my heart. My introduction to the hobby was melting down lead in the kitchen, unsupervised(perfectly normal back then :D), at age 9, to fill Prince August molds that we used to swap.....but when I got Heroquest for Christmas it changed everything. Of course, this led to a life-long obsession with the Warhammer world, and ultimately my passion today working professionally as a miniature sculptor. I often wish I could see my 9 year old face if I went back in time and told me that 'when you grow up' your job will be creating and painting your own miniatures. It would have seemed more fantastical than the fantasy realms themselves... :D So, thank you Heroquest, for inspiring my life-long love and passion for miniatures.
I discovered the game right after Desert Storm (The North American Version) and I was hooked. Thanks for the motivation to start playing and collecting again. Great video
This is fascinating, especially the info about who created Heroquest. Good research dude :)😊
Glad I was able to bring some more stuff to light; I was surprised by some of the research, but that’s often the way! Thanks for watching!
Great stuff. Blew my mind that Stephen Baker also designed Mysteries of old Peking and Inkognito! My HeroQuest copy from 1990 is still intact, murky paint jobs included. Picked up a complete box a few years agao, with Wizards of Morcar included for 3(!!) euros at a garage sale
I bought Wizards of Morcar with my saved-up pocket money, straight off the shelf in my local Toyworld in New Zealand.
Oh nice! The various sources I consulted had NZ and Australia missing out on some expansions, but from the comments it does seem like that info was wrong - plenty of you managed to score the extra sets!
As a lifelong fan and player of HQ who is, to this day, DMing two separate, ongoing, homebrew HQ campaigns for 14 players in total (one of those campaigns being almost eight years deep), thank you so much for this video! I’ve never known the game’s real world history, and this is brilliant and fascinating.
That is some awesome HQ campaigning! Sounds amazing. Glad I could add a little historical intrigue!
That elf archer at 17:13 in top left is one of the Skarlocks Wood Elf archers. I STILL GOT EM! Mostly unpainted and in my vintage 1987 pile of shame.
Those Hero Quest/Space Crusade White Dwarfs are what introduced me to the wider Warhammer range!
I wish I had kept my copies of the Sticker Album, Comic and Solo Adventure Books that I had, but I got rid of them in the late 90's after my mum had died and I tried to quite the hobby.
Did manage to get the 89 and 90 versions of the base game along with Witchlord/Keller's Keep expansion again in the early 2000's, but sadly, I doubt I'll ever get Ogre Horde or Wizards sets, nor the Dark Company edition....
Er Jordan, try storing the game along the long edge (.......?). Also, the furniture IS the best thing about HQ - ask the Witnesses who visited the Bard's House!
I’m sorry, no shelving unit can contain the power of the game!
Very good point!
Thank you for your informative video! Superb job!
I was in the space crusade camp myself and didn't realise that there were so many expansions and differences across the world. Those puzzles were pretty cool along with the books. Can't wait for those videos you suggested in this one. It's really great that you took time to make this one and yes those adverts were amazing to see back in the day ,👍
Thank you for taking the time to watch it and comment! The puzzles were a fun find, especially because Les Edwards’ art is just so great!
I think I must have missed this one by a few years. Was big into Advanced Heroquest (and later Warhammer Quest) though.
Both AHQ and WHQ were worthy successors, though there’s a lot of old school charm to be had with HeroQuest!
Never could afford the game as a kid but I had the sticker album and nearly completed it too. I would pour over those pictures for hours. Ahhh nostalgia.
There’s some great stuff in that album!
Thank you for this great video Jordan. Heroquest is a wonderful game with a wonderful history. I was lucky enough to play it in the early 90's with my childhood friends (although I got my copy just a few years ago) and even here in Italy it soon became the dream of every single child for Christmas. I am so happy that Hasbro decided to reissue it and it will be interesting to see if they're going to realize even the missing dwarf and wizard expansion packs together with the new ones (e.g. rise of the dread moon). I knew about Ye old Inn's great job and It's simply amazing to think that... after so many years we are still talking about this game, no matter where we come from or in which country we grew up.
It really is isn’t it! I guess it’s testament to just how good a job they did making the game that we’re still researching and talking about and playing this wonderful game!
Really informative history of HeroQuest. Thanks so much. I was a massive fan of the original and have recently picked up where I left off with the new Avalon Hill version. I run a Warhammer after-school club with my students and have started playing HeroQuest - needless to say, they're all hooked!
Joyous video! Many fond memories of questing. HeroQuest got me into warhammer, December 1989...
Quick note. We definitely did get Wizards of Morcar here in New Zealand. I got a set as a wee boy. It is possible that it was imported, I guess, but I remember them on the regular shelves in our local small town toy shop.
Info online was pretty patchy about it, good to get it confirmed!
Brilliant video. I was 12 when I got my copy. I now own the new version which I love. Wish I could remember what happened to my original. I had space crusade too!
Thank you! It's odd how those much loved and played games just disappeared at some point isn't it - and then we realise, regret, and rebuy!
@@jordansorcery I used to collect and paint warhammer and it all spawned from this game. It was so great getting the new game, buying some paints and getting cracking on them. I got a few figures from Games Workshop to used as the extra characters in the trails, like Sir Ragnor and the Ork Warlord. Brilliant. I love it. Just need someone else to play it with!!!
Always one of the toughest parts, finding some good gaming buddies to join you on the quest!
Really a great recap of the whole of the original run of the game.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video!!
I’ve been a HeroQuest fan since the beginning. I played the original as a kid and now play the new version with my son.
I love UA-cam. We would never have seen this type of content on TV.
Amazing work. Thank you.
Thanks so much! It’s amazing having a platform to share all this stuff I love on! Glad you’re enjoying the channel
Had a lot of fun with this in college, and even after. We modified the rules to make it more difficult...monsters could reappear in a room if re-entered, and all chaos warriors could cast chaos spells at any time. Definitely made it more interesting.
That sounds like playing it on Elden Ring mode! I always love those wild house rules and variants though, really makes a game feel your own
I consider myself as one of the greatest HeroQuest nerds there ever were and even I didn't know all of this stuff, amazingly well done video.
Our local library had the board game for rent when I was a kid and I rented it as often as possible whenever I had the chance, always sad when it wasn't available and I had to go with any other "boring" (at least in the mind of a child) board game.
Also played the Amiga video game nonstop as a child as well, you could not set up your own adventures there but it was still great fun to re-experience the experiences from the board game.
And you know what's the greatest thing about the board game? With enough creativity, cardboard boxes, paper, pencils, a ruler, paint and patience you could add your own tiles, cards, rules and whatnot to the game.
Hero Quest, will always have a special place in my childhood. Thank you for the detailed background! 🎉
My pleasure! It's got a special place in mine too, so it was a lot of fun researching and sharing the history of it
Me and my brother played this game so much as kids! Then we got the game “Battle Masters” which was kind of like Warhammer for kids also. It had a huge mat you had to put on the floor with a bunch of battle units, a cannon and a castle. Those games got me into painting miniatures, first all the ones from both games then actual Warhammer minis. Started playing Warhammer after that but we fizzled out during college and never got back into it.
Battle Masters is a heck of a game, hoping to do a video on it relatively soon! Unreal how much they fit into that box!
What an excellent, underrated series of videos!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
We still play it today!❤
Excellent!
I do love that Sigmar vs. Morcar connection. Instead of in a battle, Sigmar sought to destroy the first Everchosen in his lair with a small band of royal followers. Truly as you say, it's like poetry
Fantastically interesting video ! So glad I stumbled onto it at my work-lunch, today 😊
I’m glad you found it too! Hope it paired well with lunch!
Really looking forward to videos about the games you say deserve their own video! Much too young to have played any HeroQuest when I was younger, but do love the history of the hobby
Those and plenty others are all on the way this year!
Still have my copy and expansions for childhood. Loved it.
That’s ace, I didn’t manage to retain mine - had to rebuy it a few years back!
Oh! Thank you so much for such detailed history!
My pleasure!
This is fantastic thanks man!
HeroQuest was the first exposure I had with RPGs and I used to love it. I had a copy, but I had another friend who had multiple copies, so things would get wild because we would throw in way more monsters and things than were typically available. Eventually you were making your own map extensions and whatnot. It was basically DnD Lite and it ruled.
Yeah it was a fantastic way to get to grips with ‘sort of’ roleplaying games, the flexibility to change and expand stuff was a blast!
@ 31:00 - The artwork by Terry Oaks for the unknown 1990 expansion very closely resembles the cover box art for "Adventure Design Kit" expansion released in the UK in 1990. The box was Navy Blue and the same size as KK / ROTWL expansions.
I think that's a good shout - I revisited it after putting the video out and a lot of the composition is similar to, with the same setting as the Les Edwards piece so it feels like it could have been the original cover for the kit. Strange that it would be the only one they commissioned another artist for though, and stranger still that Edwards ended up doing the cover anyway!
Thoroughly enjoyed this - such a nostalgia trip.
I’m glad you enjoyed it! The nostalgia was massive for me too, really fun to research!
another fantastic video. LOVED this game as a kid we had the first two expansions and jigsaws. didnt know about the others. Looking forward to the Advanced HeroQuest video
It was such a great game to have in those early gaming years! I only got the jigsaw recently, would have loved some of those in my youth too!