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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
Being a big Hammer Horror fan it does sound like Lee to me - Also in the late 80’s his career was a lot quieter and with the budget being so large for the advert I imagine they would have easily been able to hire him. Which is great because the advert is even more brilliant. Reminds me of Labyrinth 😀
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!
@ 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!
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 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.
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.
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!!
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.
Amazing video! Loved the original Heroquest release after getting it as an Xmas present. I also had the Tyrants Tomb book and had the same experience - countless tries and countless deaths lol. I really need to get the others. Oh and I had no idea there was a sticker album! 😮
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!
I see you didn't make any mention of the Advanced Hero Quest Paint Set, which included IIRC a guide on painting your miniatures with the included paints as well as a sprue from the Warhammer Regiments boxed set, Skeleton Horde and another set of Hero's
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!
I had this as a 9-11 year old. Had all the expansions and event got Advanced HeroQuest and was starting to get into Warhammer Fantasy. However about 1991, my interests changed to a Sega Megadrive. I never did anything like it again, although I sometimes would go into a Games Workshop every couple of years, mostly in the 2000's when Lord of the Rings was big. Recently I have got back into it after 33 years and have just purchased the new HeroQuest game. Once thing I like is the advances with 3D printing.
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
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.
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!
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
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!
I am finishing up the last ~5 models on HQ (2021) and its 2 initial expansions (table quality). Ready to start on the most recent 2 as soon as finishing the initial 2021 releases. This will be the first time I have ever completed an army or boxed game 100%! I hope this gets the views it deserves, great work as always!
Amazing! I like some of those sculpts in the new set, but I didn’t get in on it in the end. How do you find the new version? It’s been a while since I 100% a project, definitely a few resolutions for me to correct that this year! And thank you for your support, as ever!
@@jordansorcery I am unable to find the OG HQ for what I consider reasonable so was happy to pick up the 2021 remake. There are a lot of things I prefer and some I don't, of course - the plastic furniture, while giving me more to paint, is a great change. And although it has more to paint, I find furniture to be fun to paint! I have played through ~4 missions thus far with some friends and one solo but took a long break to try and get it all painted up. So far it has been well received, with some minor tweaks, like combing searching for traps and secret doors in one action (my players really seemed to like this).
The original has really fallen foul of the second hand market boom in recent years, some games are selling at just unfathomable prices! Sounds like they’ve done a good job with the reissue overall then! I’ve seen positive things about it online, but haven’t delved too deep on it yet
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!
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.
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!
That’s impressive! The parts that didn’t disintegrate from mine got sold off in one of the many regrettable purges over the years! Thankfully I’ve since been able to get a good condition copy again
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 ,👍
Labyrinth is the right word for it, some wild changes and overlaps in there! But I had a lot of fun piecing it all together so I'm glad it was fun to watch too!
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
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.
Thank you for this awesome breakdown of the history. I recently introduced my Wife and my kid to this legendary game that helped shape my childhood. It was a blast to get back and play it. It was the new hasbro print. I was not disappointed.
That's great, it's so fun that there's a whole new version of the game that a new generation can join in on, and that it upholds the epic legacy of the original! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Hi Jordan, this was a really fantastic video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is the best summary regarding the origins of the game that I have seen. Really well researched. One small note: the gameboard was illustrated by a great airbrush artist called Jon Goode. He also was also the artist responsible for the logo. I'm going to check out the Space Crusade video next!
Thanks so much Stephen - for the lovely comment and for creating the game! And for the note on Jon Goode as well, it has been difficult for me to confirm a lot of the creative personnel for classic games like HQ so it's a great help.
I've just discovered your channel, I recently turned 44yo and have a real hunger for revisiting the Warhammer games I played and read about 30+ years ago. Space Crusade / Hero Quest / Space Hulk... great memories and I'd immediately pick up a new 40k game to play with my kids. Great channel buddy, lots of interesting videos to keep me going for a while!
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
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!
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
After watching this and the first part of your Advanced HeroQuest series, I'm impressed with your videos, and I'm thrilled I found your channel. Table Top history is a considerable interest of mine, and it's great to get the background and story from a different perspective than I'm accustomed to (being in the US). Kudos to you for putting together such informative well, crafted videos.
Thank you! Appreciate you watching and commenting on them! I really enjoyed making those Warhammer Quest videos, so much history (and a fair amount of nostalgia!) that went on to inform me as a gamer, but still holds an important place in Games Workshop history I think. Hopefully the videos I've got coming up this year are just as interesting!
@@jordansorcery I've finished watching the Warhammer Quest series, and it's been fascinating. I'm excited to see what you have in the pipeline. I know a lot about the ins and outs about DND and a few other TTRPGs, but very little about Games Workshop history, even though I'm a little familiar with the settings and the lore. Keep up the fantastic work!
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
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
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!
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.
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.
Great video! I have recently fallen back in love with Hero Quest after my wife bought be the new edition (which I barely knew existed) as a surprise. She had heard me go on an on about loving the original game and the hours of great fun I had with family and friends so got this for me. Playing it again with the new build and updated rule sets has been amazing and I and I want to get all the expansions and dive head long into everything about it. I loved your video, appreciated the hard work you put in.
Looking forward to the Advanced HeroQuest video! I know absolutely nothing about it. Editing because this video deserves more than that. Amazing job, sir. For me HeroQuest was a neat detour away from all the Dungeons and Dragons I'd been playing at the time. Our group has generally been very theater of the mind when it came to roleplaying, so HeroQuest was the visual realization of the dungeons we were delving into. One odd note, when I played, we didn't have a dedicated Zargon/Morcar player. Instead each of us controlled a hero and we did our best to fairly decide who the monsters would be attacking between ourselves. Fun game, great memories, and later my HeroQuest Chaos Warriors got painted up, along with the Chaos Sorcerer and the Gargoyle, in my aborted attempt to get a Chaos army going in Warhammer. Wonderful game, great memories.
Thank you so much for your comment, really appreciate it! That's a fun approach so that everyone can play the heroes! I imagine it gets tricky with some of the more complex quests or ones that have a few secrets though!
@@jordansorcery Yeah, I can't remember how we handled some of that. I'm sure we made up something that worked at the time, there was a lot of winging it going on. Looking back though, this is probably where my love of co-op board games started.
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...
Very enjoyable video! I really enjoyed the backstory about the development of Heroquest, one of my favorite games! In fact, the American Elf Pack was written by my wife, and I happen to think she did a great job!
Incredible, I didn’t realise! I struggled to find full details about the US design teams, but that doesn’t excuse my oversight - I’ll be sure to give appropriate credit in my next addendum. If you or your wife happen to know who designed the Barbarian pack I’d welcome the info!
Thank you so much for the video. Heroquest was very much my introduction to gaming, have all the original and new releases, but i never had any idea there were novels.
Minor correction, it was "Moon Design Publications" and in evidence for Greg Stafford's comment, HeroQuest was advertised as as coming "next year" in the back of the RuneQuest 2 rules (published by GW) sometime around 1981...
This is an amazing vid. I didn't know the books or the comics existed so thank you!. I' only found your channel recently but it's rapidly becoming one of my favorite's! Thank you for producing these!
My pleasure! I had one of the books, but the comic was news to me too! I’ve added a link to a full online copy in the description if you want to check it out!
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.
amazingly made, excellently researched, with clean and concise commentary, and just heaps on heaps of information. well done and congratulations on what will be a mainstay HQ video.
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 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!
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!
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!
Amazing! ❤
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!
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!
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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
The best thing about HeroQuest is these videos of HeroQuest.
The best thing about Heroquest is this video of the History of Heroquest!
You’re too kind!
Fantastic information I’m a HQ follower this vid is so good for the story of HQ thanks
My love of Warhammer Fantasy as a setting is born of my deep obsession with HeroQuest.
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
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 👍
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.
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!
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.
This game (and reading the Lotr books) is responsible for my obsession with fantasy and Warhammer. 😊
It’s defo Christopher Lee in that advert 🧛♂️😀
I’ve heard a few other suggestions, but Lee is my bet too. It just seems impossible to verify!
Being a big Hammer Horror fan it does sound like Lee to me - Also in the late 80’s his career was a lot quieter and with the budget being so large for the advert I imagine they would have easily been able to hire him. Which is great because the advert is even more brilliant. Reminds me of Labyrinth 😀
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!
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@@jordansorcery YES!!
Ah yes of course you did! I have already watched it and commented. Lol
Great video, thanks for sharing!
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!
You JS are quickly becoming one of my favourite Warhammer Historians. keep up the great work mate :)
Thanks! Please set up a Patreon :)
Thanks so much, really appreciate the support! I’ll take a look at Patreon!
Thanks!
Thank you! Really value your support!
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.
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!
@@jordansorcery AHQ would be a great video
@ 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!
22:30 probably to make it look like the tsr dungeons & dragons basic rulebook from the 1981 boxed set
Great video (again)
This was the most potent of gateway drugs - I'm still at it 30 years later!
It hooked me too!
42:47 - Brilliance exemplified. Bravo! 🥳
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!
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!
Great stuff! next stop -> BattleMasters!
It’s on the list!
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.
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!!
Cheers fella! Loving your work!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your support, Jez!
I appreciate the videos, you put in a lot of effort
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.
Your channel is the most exciting thing on youtube for me in 2023, nothing beats old cool Warhammer.
That is really nice of you to say! I’m excited about the projects I’m working on for this year, can’t wait to share them!
@@jordansorcery All the obscure stuff you manage to dig up is so damn fascinating, keep up the great work!
@@jordansorcery Also I really hope you'll do a video on the armorcast titans and all that shenanigans.
It’s fascinating how many neat little stories and twists there are hidden away in the background history of these games!
I hadn’t thought about that, but they were amazing at the time! Well worth a look at some point!
Amazing video! Loved the original Heroquest release after getting it as an Xmas present. I also had the Tyrants Tomb book and had the same experience - countless tries and countless deaths lol. I really need to get the others. Oh and I had no idea there was a sticker album! 😮
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!
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!
I see you didn't make any mention of the Advanced Hero Quest Paint Set, which included IIRC a guide on painting your miniatures with the included paints as well as a sprue from the Warhammer Regiments boxed set, Skeleton Horde and another set of Hero's
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,
I had this as a 9-11 year old. Had all the expansions and event got Advanced HeroQuest and was starting to get into Warhammer Fantasy. However about 1991, my interests changed to a Sega Megadrive. I never did anything like it again, although I sometimes would go into a Games Workshop every couple of years, mostly in the 2000's when Lord of the Rings was big. Recently I have got back into it after 33 years and have just purchased the new HeroQuest game. Once thing I like is the advances with 3D printing.
Just discovered this channel, simply excellent!
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
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!
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!
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
Great video , thx for the work, bravo pour l'immense travail. Salutation de la Suisse d'un fan de Heroquest
C'est mon plaisir! Merci beaucoup
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!
I am finishing up the last ~5 models on HQ (2021) and its 2 initial expansions (table quality). Ready to start on the most recent 2 as soon as finishing the initial 2021 releases. This will be the first time I have ever completed an army or boxed game 100%!
I hope this gets the views it deserves, great work as always!
Amazing! I like some of those sculpts in the new set, but I didn’t get in on it in the end. How do you find the new version?
It’s been a while since I 100% a project, definitely a few resolutions for me to correct that this year! And thank you for your support, as ever!
@@jordansorcery I am unable to find the OG HQ for what I consider reasonable so was happy to pick up the 2021 remake. There are a lot of things I prefer and some I don't, of course - the plastic furniture, while giving me more to paint, is a great change. And although it has more to paint, I find furniture to be fun to paint!
I have played through ~4 missions thus far with some friends and one solo but took a long break to try and get it all painted up. So far it has been well received, with some minor tweaks, like combing searching for traps and secret doors in one action (my players really seemed to like this).
The original has really fallen foul of the second hand market boom in recent years, some games are selling at just unfathomable prices!
Sounds like they’ve done a good job with the reissue overall then! I’ve seen positive things about it online, but haven’t delved too deep on it yet
@@jordansorcery eff scalpers x(
Agreed!
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!
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!
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!
Joyous video! Many fond memories of questing. HeroQuest got me into warhammer, December 1989...
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!
HeroQuest was also my start into the hobby and with the relaunch i’m back again. Cool video, thanks!
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.
What a great informative video about one of the greatest table top games of all time!
Thank you!
What a fantastic, fantastic, fantastic video (worth repeating 3 times). Carefully crafted and informative. Thank you!
Thank you so much for the kind words! I’m really glad you enjoyed it
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!
I still have my original one from 1990, it made me a Warhammer nerd indeed! thank you for this video and I love your channel Jordan!
That’s impressive! The parts that didn’t disintegrate from mine got sold off in one of the many regrettable purges over the years! Thankfully I’ve since been able to get a good condition copy again
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!
Fantastic dive into the labyrinth of HQ releases. Loved the game as a kid and it did indeed set me on a path.
Labyrinth is the right word for it, some wild changes and overlaps in there! But I had a lot of fun piecing it all together so I'm glad it was fun to watch too!
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
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.
Thank you for this awesome breakdown of the history. I recently introduced my Wife and my kid to this legendary game that helped shape my childhood. It was a blast to get back and play it. It was the new hasbro print. I was not disappointed.
That's great, it's so fun that there's a whole new version of the game that a new generation can join in on, and that it upholds the epic legacy of the original! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Hi Jordan, this was a really fantastic video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is the best summary regarding the origins of the game that I have seen. Really well researched. One small note: the gameboard was illustrated by a great airbrush artist called Jon Goode. He also was also the artist responsible for the logo. I'm going to check out the Space Crusade video next!
Thanks so much Stephen - for the lovely comment and for creating the game! And for the note on Jon Goode as well, it has been difficult for me to confirm a lot of the creative personnel for classic games like HQ so it's a great help.
I've just discovered your channel, I recently turned 44yo and have a real hunger for revisiting the Warhammer games I played and read about 30+ years ago. Space Crusade / Hero Quest / Space Hulk... great memories and I'd immediately pick up a new 40k game to play with my kids. Great channel buddy, lots of interesting videos to keep me going for a while!
Glad you're liking the videos! Nostalgia comes for us all!
Excellent work. I love your presentation style & attention to detail.
I’m glad it’s come together well, lots of research on this one!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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
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!
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
After watching this and the first part of your Advanced HeroQuest series, I'm impressed with your videos, and I'm thrilled I found your channel. Table Top history is a considerable interest of mine, and it's great to get the background and story from a different perspective than I'm accustomed to (being in the US). Kudos to you for putting together such informative well, crafted videos.
Thank you! Appreciate you watching and commenting on them! I really enjoyed making those Warhammer Quest videos, so much history (and a fair amount of nostalgia!) that went on to inform me as a gamer, but still holds an important place in Games Workshop history I think. Hopefully the videos I've got coming up this year are just as interesting!
@@jordansorcery I've finished watching the Warhammer Quest series, and it's been fascinating. I'm excited to see what you have in the pipeline. I know a lot about the ins and outs about DND and a few other TTRPGs, but very little about Games Workshop history, even though I'm a little familiar with the settings and the lore. Keep up the fantastic work!
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 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!
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 a great recap of the whole of the original run of the game.
Thank you!
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!
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!
Takes me back to my early teenage years. Loved HQ. Great video.
I find HQ to be such a time capsule of my younger days - incredible memories! Thanks for the comment!
Oh! Thank you so much for such detailed history!
My pleasure!
Great video! I have recently fallen back in love with Hero Quest after my wife bought be the new edition (which I barely knew existed) as a surprise. She had heard me go on an on about loving the original game and the hours of great fun I had with family and friends so got this for me. Playing it again with the new build and updated rule sets has been amazing and I and I want to get all the expansions and dive head long into everything about it. I loved your video, appreciated the hard work you put in.
Thanks for giving it a watch! I’ve still not had a chance to try the new version, but it looks impressive!
Looking forward to the Advanced HeroQuest video! I know absolutely nothing about it.
Editing because this video deserves more than that. Amazing job, sir.
For me HeroQuest was a neat detour away from all the Dungeons and Dragons I'd been playing at the time. Our group has generally been very theater of the mind when it came to roleplaying, so HeroQuest was the visual realization of the dungeons we were delving into. One odd note, when I played, we didn't have a dedicated Zargon/Morcar player. Instead each of us controlled a hero and we did our best to fairly decide who the monsters would be attacking between ourselves. Fun game, great memories, and later my HeroQuest Chaos Warriors got painted up, along with the Chaos Sorcerer and the Gargoyle, in my aborted attempt to get a Chaos army going in Warhammer.
Wonderful game, great memories.
Thank you so much for your comment, really appreciate it! That's a fun approach so that everyone can play the heroes! I imagine it gets tricky with some of the more complex quests or ones that have a few secrets though!
@@jordansorcery Yeah, I can't remember how we handled some of that. I'm sure we made up something that worked at the time, there was a lot of winging it going on. Looking back though, this is probably where my love of co-op board games started.
That’s one of the things I truly love about WHQ - if everyone wants to be heroes then no problem!
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!
This was GREAT! Really enjoyed this - There was a LOT I didn't know!
Thank you Jordan!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very enjoyable video! I really enjoyed the backstory about the development of Heroquest, one of my favorite games! In fact, the American Elf Pack was written by my wife, and I happen to think she did a great job!
Incredible, I didn’t realise! I struggled to find full details about the US design teams, but that doesn’t excuse my oversight - I’ll be sure to give appropriate credit in my next addendum. If you or your wife happen to know who designed the Barbarian pack I’d welcome the info!
@@jordansorcery no worries...the publisher didn't give any kind of author credits on those.
Thank you so much for the video. Heroquest was very much my introduction to gaming, have all the original and new releases, but i never had any idea there were novels.
I'm glad I could share something new (even if it's old)! Thank you for watching!
Minor correction, it was "Moon Design Publications" and in evidence for Greg Stafford's comment, HeroQuest was advertised as as coming "next year" in the back of the RuneQuest 2 rules (published by GW) sometime around 1981...
That's very good to know, thanks! The timeline was tricky to keep straight with all the parties involved!
The Best part about HeroQuest is the History of HeroQuest!
I still think the gargoyle might be the best thing! Or the dwarf. Wait, it’s the art! Hold on. Oh dear…
@@jordansorcery Bwod sord!
Fire of whoth!
This is an amazing vid. I didn't know the books or the comics existed so thank you!. I' only found your channel recently but it's rapidly becoming one of my favorite's! Thank you for producing these!
My pleasure! I had one of the books, but the comic was news to me too! I’ve added a link to a full online copy in the description if you want to check it out!
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.
amazingly made, excellently researched, with clean and concise commentary, and just heaps on heaps of information. well done and congratulations on what will be a mainstay HQ video.
Thanks Ash, really appreciate your support and kind words!
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!
Thank you for your informative video! Superb job!
Love your channel. Great content and presentation.😊
Thanks Rodger!