Legendary lost game found on Team17's Amiga! Witchwood
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- On today's menu we find & recreate the intro to cancelled game Witchwood using original code!
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So today we got both Perifractic digging through old Team17 files and Clint from LGR digging through old Sierra files. What a day for retro archaeology!
There's a new 8-bit Guy video as well about a graphics workstation.
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z aw crap i forgot about the 8 Dollar Guy
Now some just needs to dig up prototype Fairchild Channel F games.
Haha! I was thinking the exact same thing...
Where's the video on LGR digging through Sierra files?
I see the game carried on the fine RPG tradition of going into the townsfolk houses and going through their cupboards to steal stuff.
@@will9357 Programmers steal everything!
For the greater good!
Does make you wonder where that started from huh.
I mean, it's so common you end up taking it for granted, but how and why did that start exactly? XD
@@KuraIthys What you don't go rifling through ppl's homes? weird!
Right...nothing like Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past...dunno where they would get the idea for this...better graphics here -16 or 32bit?...Nintendo would've had some RPG competition on SNES in 1994 if this Team had completed it...no...more Worms... Specs
Wow, I used to listen to Bjorn Lynne's Witchwood album a lot when I was younger and I didn't even know it was supposed to be in a game! Thank you for the vid, great content as always! ☺️
Rock on!
Seeing these unfinished and abandoned games makes me somewhat sad. As a software developer, I do know how much heart and soul developers have probably put into these projects just for their work to be thrown away and forgotten.
But making games is a business and unfortunately if the project no longer makes financial sense to release, it gets thrown away. Some projects do get a second chance (like True Crime: Hong Kong which was fully completed when it was cancelled by the publisher. Another publisher eventually published the game as Sleeping Dogs) but many simply get thrown away and forgotten.
Sometimes graphics, sounds. and some code may be recycled into new games. ;)
This is the first video from this channel I've watched, and I just have to say, the voice of this guy is incredibly soothing and relaxing. I'd pay to hear him narrate a Big Finish Doctor Who story.
oh memories ! brings back to a time where Psygnosis, team 17 microprose and sierra were names that we loved with my brother and few friends.
It's so sad that we have reached a time when some of the original developers have started to pass away... guess we're all aging after all unlike the superheros in our favorite games. :o
While the files are a great find, I have to admit that I'm much more impressed with the editing work you folks have done to them. Taking a bunch of random files on the hard disk (and elsewhere) and turning them into what could have been an awesome trailer for the game is truly impressive. If only they had you leading the team back in the day, maybe the games future would have been different.
Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot. 👍🕹
A great insight. Thank you for a lovely video. Its also really inspiring to see the Amigas capability.
Coming across that Amiga is such a great find. Thanks so much for sharing.
OK, I'm starting a petition to put Lady Fractic on every thumbnail regardless of whether she's in video or not.
Me too! 👍🕹️
She is not entirely unattractive. Punching above your weight there, Mr Fractic! :p
That would help the view counts, no doubt. That's a ridiculously attractive couple, right there.
@@peterobinson3678 He's English. That's a +5 bonus to all stats.
I wonder if a potential sequel could've been titled, "Thatwood." 😀
Wow! Honestly, I'm floored by how much you've managed to save from this Amiga! It's really amazing to see lost media like this recovered.
It's incredible and my pleasure!
It would be nice to see these games finally completed and people enjoying them.
great video. I love finding "lost" stuff on old computers
Thank you for your kind words Baz. Means a lot. 👍🕹
I hope that MY family feels the same when they delete my internet history after I am gone.
I suspect that they will just be equal parts disgusted and disappointed....
@@peterobinson3678 too much porn?
@@crazyboy2006cashier That and all my dank memes. :p
I don't know who you really are as a human on this planet but I feel you have good energy and you give it to us with people
First!
haha You Rules !
Cheaters never prosper! 😜
First is worst!
Not fair😳
I actually heard of this game before today, and I heard a rumour that they stopped production after getting sued by Nintendo because it was too similar to Zelda. It's good to see that rumour was false.
Good old Barbara Winsor as a virtual bar maid. Now that's a blast to the past
Thanks for taking the time to get all that out together. It would have been a fascinating game
That Amiga just keeps on giving! Awesome find!
Man, Mandella effect is the real deal!
Before now, I'd swear I've seen this intro scene before, glowing light, trees, music & all.
LOL at that busty barmaid :D
Take that, "found camera footages"!
This is even better than I expected! Oh man, I wish this could occur more often, but sadly - it´s more like rarity. Then again, then it would lose that "WOW" effect :) Awesome video!
I live about a two minute drive away from where Team 17 had their HQ. It was in Ossett, West Yorkshire, and I used to feel so proud they were in my home town... and was absolutely gutted when they called it a day 😢
ITS BRILLIANT HOW YOU DID THAT
@Retro Recipes: Thank you for putting this video together. this really inspired me to work on a brand new rpg game. idk if i'll ever get the resources to start it but i have some ideas that'll make for a really fun adventure if i ever get the chance. i will remember you and this video and i'll give you a free copy and maybe more. +1 pal ( also her voice over talent is awesome! ) ^_^
Great work, It's nice to see a bit of what could have been. As soon as you said the game title I thought I have a Bjorn Lynne album of the same name in my collection so that really caught my attention.
my first contact with atari was 1984 Poland, I was dying of excitement
then c64 what a musician I died 2 times
Oh man that intro was really beautiful, and the gameplay 'footage' looked so good, i wish the game had been completed.
Gotta say this reminds me of The Faery Tale Adventure from 1987.
Why do I get a completely different response whenever I approach young ladies with retrocomputing questions? Must be my non-ASMR voice?
😂
Maybe I shouldn't lead with a question about dysentery. ^.^
You gotta work on your retro voice, bring it up to date. ;D
Try shouting "I've got worms!"
Wow the production on this and previous videos are awesome and very much appreciated :)
Could have been a Secret Of Mana (Seiken Densetsu) worthy title. Hopefully the community picks up this raw diamond some day soon.
I died laughing at the “which wood?” part! 🤣
“This went on for several minutes”
Another very cool video! Very interesting to see the video restoration and reimagining!
Glad you enjoyed it!
More Lady Fractic please !
Too bad it was never released. Looks interesting to play. Please keep being Indigi Jones in the digital archives😆 Good video👍
This was amazing! Great work peri and lady - fractic!
Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot. 👍🕹
OMG! I had stumbled across this song years ago searching for true surround music examples in Dolby 5.1 AC3 format on the internet and unwittingly picked this up on Bjorn Lynne's website! I had no idea the connection or importance of this song to retro-gaming but "Fairy Woods" is one of my favorite tracks!
I've watched 3 of your Amiga videos, I had to subscribe now. If my fortunes change I will source out an Amiga 4000 or 2000 w/040 accelerator. Thanks for all your hard work. And by the way you have a beautiful wife and cute dog. I wish you all the best. If you can do more videos with old professionals using the Amiga again that would be great. Your last one blew me away. This one made me subscribe.
Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot! 👍🕹 I'll try!
MY goodness, this music is stunning and this game looks like it would have been so fun! I wish it could be completed! So nice looking....
The fact that you make such good videos is what holds me back from making my own! Great work.
I'm... sorry... ? ;-)
I’m only here for Puppyfractic. His little polka dot bed with matching little chew toy is awesome.
10:31 You should have known !!! of T17 members cheeky sense of humour by now Perifractic ;) Once again, great find on their back-catalogue.
when unscrewing the screw becomes a mystical experience, I feel human
Amazing thanks for sharing this, brought back some great memories, amazing music by my good friend and footage from one of my all time greatest software companies of all time. Great stuff so exciting!
The music is great!
This was so cool! Well done with all the research and rendering!
Thanks!!
Hallfiry here. The Witchwood demo is actually playable, just start it without the bat files.
Also: the "French guys" are abandonware.org. The linked kultcds.com page is by myself and shortly after posting about it originally I found out that abandonware.org had documented the demo 2 years before me (which seems to have gone pretty unnoticed). It still appears to be me who documtented the different keybindings, did maps dumps and put the demo more into the spotlight, collected screenshots and uplaoded the trailer and the demo recordings, though.
This is great, thank you! I'll look into removing the bat files from the Archive once my computer is back from repair 👍🕹️
Realistically speaking, what are the odds that we'll ever see this game come to fruition? Have any of the original developers shown any interest since you've unearthed their long buried treasure? It would be amazing to see their vision come to life.
Cris has said he's flattered and blown away at the interest in all this stuff. I wouldn't rule it out 100%... though it was abandoned once for a reason... Team17, your move! ;-)
@@RetroRecipes Maybe they could team up with one of the companies currently putting out sega genesis/mega drive software like Big Evil Corporation, Mega Cat Studios or Stoneage Gamer seeing as how the amiga and gen/md share the 68000 cpu. I shouldn't be too hard to make the change. Especially if someone else is picking up the tab. lol Provided the game isn't too large that is. Even an amiga game would be amazing, it has been enjoying a bit of a renaissance lately.
Either way could you keep us up to date on your channel if there's any progress?
@@thegenerousdegenerate9395 I'd definitely not rule it out, Putty Squad, a Phil Thornton/Ocean Software game originally developed in 1994 and later cancelled, was finished up and released for Amiga as well as newer consoles like PS3/PS4/Vita/3DS in 2013. A Switch version was also released in 2017.
There also was "1993 Space Machine" released in 2016 which was originally developed for the Amiga in 1993 and then sat in a drawer for 20 years.
Great... now i want to play. Thanks....
Aloha, I just stumbled upon your channel. As a 20+ year vet in VFX/Animation and Games, your vid pulls on all my heartstrings. Amiga rendered Babylon 5 is what got me into the field, so anything from around that time is just wonderful to see. Looking forward to more, Mahalo. Subscribed.
This video gives me nostalgia... Bjorne Lynne is still my favourite "tracker" music maker!
or formerly Dr. Awesome
@@AceMcLoud42 Yes! You're right!
Thank you so much for sharing this! I really hope there's someway to make this game a reality, one day! Thanks again
Nice walkthrough it is good to see some relics from the past. Keep up the good work!
I would absolutely buy this game today. They should release it on the Amiga and on Steam! You know... for gaming on the go with a laptop...
We've been trying to get the rights and have partly reverse engineered the source code but unfortunately T17 still want to hang onto it. Maybe they have plans...
@@RetroRecipes sure would be nice to have that Retro Recipes twist on that retro game. 🙂
looks awsome they should get back together and make this game
Reminds me of GoT or God of Thunder! Terrific MS-DOS game.
Witchwood reminds me of the other Team 17 game "Spreis Legacy" that did see the light of day. Great work =)
Wow, that's awesome! I hadn't heard of this game before this. It's a very pretty looking action rpg in the flavor of The Legend of Zelda. It's a shame it was never released. It looks like it would've been really good!
The horse section reminds me of very early Runescape music...
Great work reviving this oldie! I personally would have trashed those old random files as I wouldn’t have known what to do with them!
Great work. This has a real "Faery Tale Adventure" feel to it.
Looks like such a atmospheric game. Too bad it wasn't finished :(
I do hope that you finish it. Even today, I think I could get lost in this game. It looks wonderful!
Really excellent work sir, as always looking forward to your next episode.
14:06 Richie Benaud, the Australian cricketer and later legendary cricket commentator, didn't die until 2015. He was very much alive when this game was being worked on!
Thousand thanks for this nice Amiga video. Im just now a new (but old really) fan of this channel too. Im an old Amiga lover from the first time the picture of the new Amiga 1000 was on a computer magazine that catch my eye on my way from Stockholm to St Louis for my first time for my work. Must have been in the early 90ties. And Im just now reading an Swedish Amiga fan book with the ritle "Generation 500" by Jimmy Wilhelmsson and Kenneth Grönvall. Published by BOKFABRIKEN 2017. The subtitle is - Amiga 500 tog mig dit jag ville! In english - The Amiga 500 took me where I wanted to go! I got this book as a Christmas present from my not so young boy. We both arw Amiga lovers since the beginning. My Amiga 1200 in a tower is stiöl working in my bedroom! My best friend!
This game looks sick, they should make a mobile version!
Nice old clean graphics and amazing tunes... I love this stuff!
9:36 was half expecting a “camera hitting her in the face” gag ... Lady Fractic is a great sport putting up with this nonsense :)
😂
That whole bit was very "Sarah and Duck", are you a secret fan?
Mark Penrice I’m not, but I think I may be shortly! *Chip Dipper* that I am!
That cut scene music sounds like Opeth!
0:25 Oh, StarDust, I remember that one PS3 (Super StarDust HD); it was the first game to get trophy support.
That game reminds me of Zelda much.
forensic game design. nice. :-)
Good research!
Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot. 👍🕹
So it appears that "The Fairy Woods" was written for this game, then reused for Siege of Avalon and then again for Eschalon II - this tune sure weaves its way through the realm of obscure RPGs
I _thought_ I recognized that track. I kept having Sha'Ahoul flashbacks during the intro sequence.
Oh wow, now i want to play SoA again
As i am 153 yrs old, this game was before my time or just passed me by, but that was witchwoodytastic Mr Fantastic....i mean Fractic 😉.....Peace.
I remember buying the Witchwood soundtrack :) Amazing soundtrack by Bjørn Lynne :)
It is Bjørn Lynne?? Maybe that is why it sounded so familiar. I got his two first CDs back in the day. By the way, his singing was awful! (But less so than my awful singing.)
Amazing. I am speachless - I don't know if it's because of the amazing work or the gruesome puns, but speachless it is. ;-) thumps up for all the work you put in your videos!
Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot. 👍🕹
I live in Scotland! I'll nip out and find that tree - brb!
That HD intro looks like something from the game Myst! Very cool!
SO F??? GREAT! I'd like to be back in the 80's and play Witchwood on my AMIGA! Thank you very much for that great piece of "lost" history! Best regards, Doktor64!
I could see it being a modern mmo. Looks like a lot of fun.
Great find! Witchwood has a strikingly similar feel to an old game I've played back then: Ahriman's Prophecy. The music at 12:25 seems to be also used in that game.
It's as if "Whispering" Bob Harris had a computer fan son.....what a voice!
Appears they actually created a Disney CG Tinkerbell before Disney did.. : 0
Just catching up. Wow, these are crazy discoveries -- and the CSI Retro Recipes is brilliant -- the modern renders with music (and fairy voices) is fantastic!
Thanks mate. I had so much fun putting it together. Call me Indyfractic! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Another excellent video. Was a fun little project!
Thank you for all your assistance Mat!! Couldn't have returned to Witchwood without you 🧙
thanks to the fact that I have an interpreter I can talk to you, my brothers overseas
That game looks awesome. I love how cinematic that intro sequence was, and would have looked great coming so soon out of the 8-bit days. Considering retro-style games have rather made a comeback, particularly on platforms such as Steam, whoever has the source code should consider finishing it and putting it up for sale. Oh, and that soundtrack sounds amazing!
Agreed! 👍🕹️
Heres hoping you or team 17 get the source code as it looks like it would be fun to play.
It might worth to check if it is maybe easy to hack the automatic tech-demo to be able to use keyboard controls. It all depends on how "complete" the game mechanics are. Maybe it is not hard at all and just require minor disassembling and usage of dosbox debugger... Maybe if I will have endless time and wish... or others...
Okay.... I just downloaded the package and I see if you directly start WITCH.EXE you can indeed control the player in this demo version!
As easy as that!!! Controls are as it is told in this video. Nice cute demo which is playable!
Wow. Very cool resurrection. "Fairy nuff" lol. Good stuff.
#MiserableHorse 😆 Top work fella, looks like you really enjoyed yourself on this one!
I’ve been a fan for a long time.. maybe it’s finally time to subscribe 😄
What a cute game, I would play it and I'm not even a gamer. Such a pleasing piece of digital archaeology. A dash of Barbara Windsor and a sweet shop proprietor who talks like Richie Benaud? Haha! Cheers.
this guy has a voice that wouldn't be out of place on a night time radio station.
And coming up next, smooth classics...
I can't quite discern the breed but your dog is absolutely adorable.
Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot! 👍🕹 She's a Shepherd / Great Pyrenees mix :-)
Thats a great looking game Remake T17!
Awesome! So much good humor, unexpected joke inserts, and the effort (the rendering, the cooperation with other fellows) that came into the making of this episode! What's not to like? Cheers! :)
Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot. 👍🕹
@@RetroRecipes Joy is the feeling that grows when shared. :)
Except joy-stick. ;D
The pretzels girl at the start is cute :) Love the tribute at the end. Only one thing - that gameplay should be in 4:3, not stretched to 16:9.
WOAH. O_O I was a Bjorne Lynne fan from back in the AWE32 days. Had tons of MIDI+SBK files from this soundtrack, and eventually bought the CD (since there was no way I could compete with his high-end synths at the time). I hadn't really ever thought of the game itself, it was always about the music. But man, this has a Secret of Mana meets Phantasy Star vibe to it that makes me long for the days where it would have been possible for this to come out.
I really miss 16-bit RPGs. Luckily I have a backlog that will last me two lifetimes.