Comments on: Defender of Defender of the Crown? Well, A Bit…

By: mujadaddy

mujadaddy — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:33:21 +0000

…another shout-out for the original DotC (C64, here). Played the hell out of that game.

By: Keith Nemitz

Keith Nemitz — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:12:37 +0000

I really wanted to like ‘It Came from the Desert’. It had lots of B film class, but I don’t even remember the gameplay, except that it was antithetical to the kind of story it was telling.

Modern day equivalent, may I suggest: ‘Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!’. It has Fibbing, Taunting, Flirting… as sub-games, and the overarching game is an RPG.

By: theleif

theleif — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:09:25 +0000

@ Ginger Yellow
“it was extremely unstable and would always crash after a few turns. It was like forbidden fruit.”

Wow that remind me of Moonstone. One of my favourite games ever. Not Cinemaware but very buggy.

By: Fumarole

Fumarole — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:32:08 +0000

Shogun: Total War had minigames?

By: rocketman71

rocketman71 — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:18:59 +0000

And let’s not forget music. Cinemaware was great at the time.

By: Donald Duck

Donald Duck — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:48:53 +0000

WINGS and It came from the desert (II) were Cinemaware right? Man those were fantastic. I’d love to see them in an updated shape. Fallout 3 has a miniquest that really brought back memories of ICFTD II and got me thinking a mod in that engine would make for a perfect modern day version.

By: gorgonzola blue

gorgonzola blue — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:59:17 +0000

blablablaretarded… the only point of Cinemaware games was to showcase the Amiga graphics. Back in the day a colourful baboon on screen would sell thousands of machines.

Casual games your parents could have played, using the new technology and the ‘movies’ gimmick to wrap it nicely. Pretty good back then.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:09:35 +0000

I’d like to see Spycraft again.. with more involved spybits and gagetry and less FMV. However it was actually quite good originally, certainly the best “interactive movie” I ever played, and although that wasn’t difficult as they were mostly awful, it still stood up as being fun.

By: Del Boy

Del Boy — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:28:52 +0000

I’ve got quite fond memories of the original, I was about eight at the time and…..well……everything’s great when you’re eight.

By: Panther

Panther — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:59:13 +0000

I went into this thinking you were going to talk about the classic from 1987,
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/142/Defender+of+the+Crown.html
But then I find out not only is there a remake, but its crap?
Well, the old one was fairly crap too mind, but I found it quite tough, especially the jousting, but I was only young.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:51:52 +0000

I have very fond memories of the original Defender of the Crown (on the Atari ST), but maybe that’s because it was extremely unstable and would always crash after a few turns. It was like forbidden fruit.

By: simbo

simbo — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:38:18 +0000

Well, Lords of the Rising Sun has been quoted as inspiration for the original Shogun: Total War - and it shows, being a similar collection of minigames. The difference: the minigames in S:TW were complex in themselves.