@@Kattlan atleast it gives me the closest feel to moonstone evryone takes the game diffrently for me moonstone is like griefhelm sure its not an rpg its not about magic and all that fancy fantasy stuff but still the combat is what moonstone would be nowdays if not better
Seeing this makes me nearly cry 😂 Remembering me, good mates, somewhere in the early 90’s - 2 Joysticks 🕹️ a good puff and then this game, coded with skill and love..homework was done and we would chill together until evening..what a great time..bloody hell - more than 30 years have passed since. My children are playing Fortnite…I’m cool with that, but I appreciate how undeveloped our games where, how raw and simple, how honest they were…Cheers to everyone who played Moonstone, Ports of Call, Cannonfodder, Wings of Fury, Defender of the Crown and all those kick ass games of “our time” ❤
Moonstone, Cannon Fodder, North&South, Desert Strike. Man, I miss those days. Funnily enough I used to struggle with the difficulty and then learned to beat the game at lvl 1, because as a kid I never heard about leveling up and only discovered Moonstone had simple rpg mechanics years later.
"I started developing Moonstone back in 1988 when I was finishing Fiendish Freddy and was wanting to do more than just artwork. Todd (Prescott) and I go way back and we played a lot of RPG and board games and we developed the idea for Moonstone. I created some animations in Deluxe Paint demonstrating some combat and proposed it with a design document to Mindscape. A publishing deal was set up and then the development started. The game's inspiration mainly comes from games called Talisman, Dungeons & Dragons and Barbarian/Death Sword." -- Rob Anderson, designer, programmer and graphic artist (Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight - Amiga)
Used to paly this with my buddy. It was brutally hard and we could never get past the first few fights. Neither of us had the skills. Great game. May go back to it with my new Sekiro and Dark Souls skills.
Superb game I had four or five mates come up to my house to play this for hours every week, through spring, summer , winter, those were the days ...just great fun times, loved the sound effects.
I was 11 years old when this came out and I didnt understand English very well and the mechanics of scrolls and other items, this game beat the crap outta me but I loved it so much.. Today, almost 3 decades later, I had my revenge and I beat the game.. Lol! Thanks so much for the upload.
The other night my brother and I decided to play this for the first time in years. The next day you uploaded this! What timing! LOL Such a great game. It blew us away the first time we saw it. A real gem, truly ahead of its time. Well played. Nice to see the ending again.
Every time i got the fucking "long sword" and howered the mouse over it and the game always died. I did that over and over again forever :P good old times
The dragon fight can be cheesed. There is a sweet spot under its head where you can stand out of reach of being kicked back, but in a position where you can stun-lock it by continuously stabbing upwards until it dies.
This game has always just been a fragment of a memory in my mind. I just remembered coloured knights and fields of gold being covered in blood. I’m so glad I’ve finally found out what it’s called. I was about 5-6 when it came out
I am constantly thinking about this epic game whilst playing Elden Ring. I am quite confident that this was a great inspiration to many contemporary game developers 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This was kind of like IK+ in its surprisingly sophisticated play scheme and Barbarian for its head lopping action. I really loved the whole turn based World they made round it too, a wonderful game.
I was one of those IBM PC jr kids jealous of those with Amigas and games like this! Heck I couldn't even run Manhole until I had a later pc with an internal hard drive. But heck I had BASICA and learned DOS starting with 2.1 and somehow Micro$oft prevailed so it turned into a career. Also what an epic ending. The graphics are good even for today's standards in my opinion.
It's a real gem! I think it had a relatively short shelf-life thanks to the amount of violence, so finding boxed retail copies is quite rare today (wish I'd kept mine).
I remember playing an Amiga Format demo disk of this, I sucked, but it was fun and at the time I had not played anything as gory. Fun watching someone who knows how to play this, a friend of mine bragged about being good at it, though when he came over, he sucked too, but blamed our joystick.
It was one of my personal favorite games on the Amiga, I have been working on a game for a year now called Disposable Heroes 2,it is highly inspired by this game and you can check some of the gameplay here: th-cam.com/video/cD61Ep0PtJA/w-d-xo.html
I played this with my brother when we were kids on the Amiga. I seem to remember those hog things being called something 'balocks'. We always laughed at that.
Well I was born in Germany, had & have an Amiga and although the game was indexed in Germany I could nevertheless play it. And what should I say? It has been one of my favourite games ever since.
Man, I've never managed to defeat that dragon. Well done. I just have watched a list of 50 games that should be remastered or remade. They passed this one. That's a shame. :D I think, moonstone is next to SNES Zelda, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Soleil one of the best 2D games of all times. Character development and a loot system has been a very very rare feature back then. The only bad part of moonstone is the lack of a save option. What's really special, is the option play it with multiple human players. I really don't understand why this game is not more famous and hasn't been recreated for various systems.
I played tihs game as teen in 90s. Legendary classic Amiga game. Scared the BeeJeezus out of us game freaks :D Almos as scary as Forbidden Forest on C64 but that's unbeatable as far as game scariness is concerned. Fantastic gaming times!
The creator did coment then peopel ask if they was allow to put the game on abandonware, and he did say that he did not have a clue who own the rights at this time, so the he must answer no.
Nice upload my friend. This was my favourite game on Amiga. I played it back in 1993. I was the only kid in my neighbourhood who finished the game, nobody believed me.I was so scared of those swamp creatures :), I still am. I didnt know that you can enter the valley of gods and fight the Guardian without havin all 4 keys.
Man, if I had an Amiga when I was younger, I'd probably have played that games for hours. Especially like how the mud golems / monsters come out with a scare chord associated with it XD
What a legend of a game. But I remember it was quite buggy. It would eventually crash after a long play session. And there was some kind of exploit at the shop, buying and reselling stuff to get basically unlimited amounts of cash.
I need to man up and try this again. Loved the game in my youth, and got traumatized for having bad crack which made the game crash always before the end. Tried this now once again with emulator or maybe it was even my real A1200, doesnt matter. But couldn't really survive shit anymore :D
I completed this game 3-4 times when it were new. I still remember how i beat the big dragon or something easily. I used "Sword of Sharpness".. Smashing it's head from bottom right corner.
I remember playing this game in my mate's house the morning after finishing a bottle of Pernod! I threw up all over the wall and his mother had to clean it up. She was not happy, to say the least. Still, I thought it was a brilliant game but never completed it cos of an error right at the end!! I never had an amiga but I recollect really wanting one :)
I never did work out how to get the moonstone to 'work' once I'd beaten the blue guardian, then I saw how you waited at your home village until just prior to the new moon... Good stuff!
It depends on exactly *which* Moonstone you receive - each stone corresponds to a phase of the moon, and you can only enter Stonehenge when the moon is in the phase that matches the moonstone you have. Other players can target you to try and steal the stone during turns where you're waiting for the correct moon phase, which adds an extra level of suspense to the end-game 😉
Game base on rock paper sizor mechanics. In modern games that was replaced by Dark Souls. I played a lot as a kid, moonstone was special. You could end that game in 2 hours and that was good we need that games in modern times.
This game ...... is LEGENDARY ... the Amiga eh what a bit of kit that was... dont make them like they used too... the originality for games on the Amiga was off the charts! Best computer ive ever owned... my PC and PS5 included lol
Yes sir. Im still owning my Amiga 500... and waiting for Ps5 (but that is not gonna be a legend like amiga 500... Just wanna ps5 for drive club at 4K).
i love this game my school bud had this on his 500, i seem to rem this could have been the first time i played on an amiga i may have used a shop one but i think it was on his, there were 3 of us who had a school sleepover at a weekend and we played his 500 mostly this but a other stuff as well, this made desperate to get my own so i could play incredible machine, ( i started off with a shared used spec and after it ended up breaking i ended up buying my own used specs i have a number of diff models not the ql the +2 and +3 i was able to slide it over for a better thing for an ok price myself, i then went on to a c64 because a diff bud with a 64c but i had the huge brick model just so i cud get copies of his games, (i did have one person with an st and it was ok but the games were not as deep with the sound) i eventually found a used a500 with games a joystick and some other stuff in a local shop for a reasonable price so i started to go in to overdrive because i didnt want to miss it i know popular these are (i was 14 at the time, i was putting everything from my paperround i used my bd and xmas and possibly took an early payments i also sold all of my tech and other stuff i had that could get an ok price and managed to get it eventually, it was the best purchase of my life i also got a copy of moonstone and managed to complete it on my own.
It felt wonderful finally beating the dragon and guardian when I was about 10, only for the guardian to die and game crashed with a Guru Meditation error!!
Well made and a fantastic atmosphere, the memories by finishing a battle by chopping head off. Remember this being as a "terrible example" in a program about video game violence ruining the youth. Wonder what they would have said about games like recent versions of GTA today...
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We need a remake of moonstone!
correct.
There is one now ,its called Griefhelm
@@uruburus5203 lol? You can't have played moonstone... Griefhelm is more a nidhog-clone, not a single simularity to moonstone.
@@Kattlan atleast it gives me the closest feel to moonstone evryone takes the game diffrently for me moonstone is like griefhelm sure its not an rpg its not about magic and all that fancy fantasy stuff but still the combat is what moonstone would be nowdays if not better
Elden Ring reminds me of a modern moonstone
Finally, after all these years I learned how this games ends. Mine always crashed when the fight with the guardian loads. Thank you! ❤
Mine too, so we had the same pirated game.
Only the pirated versions crash. That's why my brother and me got the original (£30+ -A *high* price for a game at that time)
Seeing this makes me nearly cry 😂 Remembering me, good mates, somewhere in the early 90’s - 2 Joysticks 🕹️ a good puff and then this game, coded with skill and love..homework was done and we would chill together until evening..what a great time..bloody hell - more than 30 years have passed since. My children are playing Fortnite…I’m cool with that, but I appreciate how undeveloped our games where, how raw and simple, how honest they were…Cheers to everyone who played Moonstone, Ports of Call, Cannonfodder, Wings of Fury, Defender of the Crown and all those kick ass games of “our time” ❤
Xenon, Xennon II, Wings (available on Steam), Oil Empire, Virus, North&South…I will have to setup an A500 emulator…😂 bye ✌️
Moonstone, Cannon Fodder, North&South, Desert Strike. Man, I miss those days.
Funnily enough I used to struggle with the difficulty and then learned to beat the game at lvl 1, because as a kid I never heard about leveling up and only discovered Moonstone had simple rpg mechanics years later.
me too.
I feel you but 😂 this emoji is for "laughing my ass off" kinda feeling. 😭 This one is actually crying
"I started developing Moonstone back in 1988 when
I was finishing Fiendish Freddy and was wanting to do
more than just artwork. Todd (Prescott) and I go way
back and we played a lot of RPG and board games and
we developed the idea for Moonstone. I created some
animations in Deluxe Paint demonstrating some combat
and proposed it with a design document to Mindscape.
A publishing deal was set up and then the development
started. The game's inspiration mainly comes from
games called Talisman, Dungeons & Dragons and
Barbarian/Death Sword."
-- Rob Anderson, designer, programmer and graphic artist (Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight - Amiga)
Used to paly this with my buddy. It was brutally hard and we could never get past the first few fights. Neither of us had the skills. Great game. May go back to it with my new Sekiro and Dark Souls skills.
Superb game I had four or five mates come up to my house to play this for hours every week, through spring, summer , winter, those were the days ...just great fun times, loved the sound effects.
I was 11 years old when this came out and I didnt understand English very well and the mechanics of scrolls and other items, this game beat the crap outta me but I loved it so much.. Today, almost 3 decades later, I had my revenge and I beat the game.. Lol!
Thanks so much for the upload.
The Dark Souls of the 90s. Loved this game.
legend game. an amiga talisman of a game.
The other night my brother and I decided to play this for the first time in years. The next day you uploaded this! What timing! LOL
Such a great game. It blew us away the first time we saw it. A real gem, truly ahead of its time. Well played. Nice to see the ending again.
its not "timing", youre being spied on by google dude
I am a brother too
Definitely in my top 5 Amiga games of all time!!!
It's certainly one of my favourites!
Every time i got the fucking "long sword" and howered the mouse over it and the game always died. I did that over and over again forever :P good old times
Sword of Sodan 🗿🗻
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplaysthis and most of cinemawares games .
What a game, atmosphere, sword of sharpness, music when gambling, the noises of the the tree rat things etc.
So nice that you included all death animations at the end!!!
The dragon fight can be cheesed. There is a sweet spot under its head where you can stand out of reach of being kicked back, but in a position where you can stun-lock it by continuously stabbing upwards until it dies.
I found it too
This game was so hard and so fun with my friends.
So many memories, pure simple gaming.
I remember when I was 5 years old playing this game. Truely a legendary game!
This game with its vibe and music haunted me as a kid.
This game has always just been a fragment of a memory in my mind. I just remembered coloured knights and fields of gold being covered in blood. I’m so glad I’ve finally found out what it’s called. I was about 5-6 when it came out
At the time, I remember thinking that the animations of the dancing girls at the end was so smooth.
They seem to have a lot of frames of animation, very smooth for the time.
Man, that purple knight loves your headache remedy. He will follow you across the map every time he gets a migraine and you fix it for a modest fee.
This was my fravourite game. Played it so much with friends i mostly have not seen anymore, Such nostalgia. Thanks for posting
I am constantly thinking about this epic game whilst playing Elden Ring. I am quite confident that this was a great inspiration to many contemporary game developers 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This was kind of like IK+ in its surprisingly sophisticated play scheme and Barbarian for its head lopping action. I really loved the whole turn based World they made round it too, a wonderful game.
I always loved Barbarian on the C64 so I basically shit a brick the first time I saw this
One of the best games ever made!
I played this a lot back in the good old Amiga days! 😎🤘
I remember how the killings seemed so brutal at the time
Just because the amount of sick shit in entertainment has piled up in recent years doesn't mean THIS isn't brutal.
They still are brutal.
They still are very much brutal, and 'low key', which is the best key. God I love this fantasy stuff man.
It was the most brutal game, until Mortal Kombat.
The gods pause for a moment to contemplate your fate... very ominous.
Eines meiner Favoriten damals auf dem Amiga 😍
Da kommt meine Jugend schlagartig zurück 🤗🥰
What a game! It was a simpler time. I want a remake of Defendor of the Crown, and The Clue! also. I really loved my Amiga.
Still own it!! Good memories with this game back in the day when me and my brothers were kids ! 💪🙏
I played this so much back in the day. Thank you for uploading this.
I remember showing this game to my friends from my Amiga 500 who owned IBMs and their minds were blown. It was revolutionary graphics for the time
I was one of those IBM PC jr kids jealous of those with Amigas and games like this! Heck I couldn't even run Manhole until I had a later pc with an internal hard drive. But heck I had BASICA and learned DOS starting with 2.1 and somehow Micro$oft prevailed so it turned into a career. Also what an epic ending. The graphics are good even for today's standards in my opinion.
Oh wow, as someone who grew up on Amiga games... how did this game pass me by?? It looks great!
It's a real gem! I think it had a relatively short shelf-life thanks to the amount of violence, so finding boxed retail copies is quite rare today (wish I'd kept mine).
It was out in the UK, but rejected in the States for the amount of gore. This was even before Mortal Kombat
At least it's on GOG now.
Remember going up in the sky to become a constellation after beating the guardian. And slaying the dragon with the sword of sharpness. Great game.
we want a remake!
I remember playing an Amiga Format demo disk of this, I sucked, but it was fun and at the time I had not played anything as gory. Fun watching someone who knows how to play this, a friend of mine bragged about being good at it, though when he came over, he sucked too, but blamed our joystick.
I love this game! Thank you for posting this!
Nice one! Also, a big thank you for all the scenes at the end.
It was one of my personal favorite games on the Amiga, I have been working on a game for a year now called Disposable Heroes 2,it is highly inspired by this game and you can check some of the gameplay here: th-cam.com/video/cD61Ep0PtJA/w-d-xo.html
The Outtakes are great😂😂⚔. Love this game.
I played this with my brother when we were kids on the Amiga. I seem to remember those hog things being called something 'balocks'. We always laughed at that.
42:41 Those guys scared the crap out of me when I was little.
They scare the crap out of me now! 😀
That just scared the shit outta me, i remember them now 😅
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays lolol.
When I read your comment, I knew exacty which monster you were talking about before clicking the link. 😂
he makes it look so easy, but the game was terryfying for a 8 year old, not to mention difficulty level - anyways - one of the best amiga games ever
There was a time when I never thought that gaming could peak from the 16-bit era.
That one knight truly had a thing for you, considering how often he attacked you. XD
awesome game... animations are all very good.
Yeah, to this day I still think of this game fondly. It was ahead of it's time. Shame the joystick was rather poor way of controlling it.
Had I been born in the UK and owned an Amiga, this would probably have been one of my most favorite games.
Well I was born in Germany, had & have an Amiga and although the game was indexed in Germany I could nevertheless play it. And what should I say? It has been one of my favourite games ever since.
Unlucky.
Fantastic title.
I have the original disks.
They might be worth something now - they're quite rare as I understand it.
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Don't think so cause I only have the disks, no manual/case.
Man, I've never managed to defeat that dragon. Well done. I just have watched a list of 50 games that should be remastered or remade. They passed this one. That's a shame. :D
I think, moonstone is next to SNES Zelda, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Soleil one of the best 2D games of all times. Character development and a loot system has been a very very rare feature back then.
The only bad part of moonstone is the lack of a save option. What's really special, is the option play it with multiple human players.
I really don't understand why this game is not more famous and hasn't been recreated for various systems.
I played tihs game as teen in 90s. Legendary classic Amiga game. Scared the BeeJeezus out of us game freaks :D Almos as scary as Forbidden Forest on C64 but that's unbeatable as far as game scariness is concerned. Fantastic gaming times!
Animations make it a satisfying combat
I will never forget this legend
Thanks for this upload I loved this game on my Amiga used to play this with my mates.
Loved that amazing game back these days. Needs a remake. Did every one know who owns the copyright...?
The creator did coment then peopel ask if they was allow to put the game on abandonware, and he did say that he did not have a clue who own the rights at this time, so the he must answer no.
@@kirgan1000 so nobody know who owns the copyright?
I played it with 11 years. It was forbidden to buy it, but we got it :D And with that Game my Love started for Adventure- and Role-Playing-Games.
Superb graphics for 1991
Nice upload my friend. This was my favourite game on Amiga. I played it back in 1993. I was the only kid in my neighbourhood who finished the game, nobody believed me.I was so scared of those swamp creatures :), I still am. I didnt know that you can enter the valley of gods and fight the Guardian without havin all 4 keys.
Played this when I was 10, and the fire made me and my friend loose our shit completely!
I'd forgotten all about this. What a game !
Ah the memories!
I still shudder about Mudmen and their instant -kill attack.
Man, if I had an Amiga when I was younger, I'd probably have played that games for hours. Especially like how the mud golems / monsters come out with a scare chord associated with it XD
Indeed, although it gets a bit silly when you fight a bunch of them in a row.
I loved this game. I demand a remake to be made!
These animations are top notch for the time this was made. Brilliant pixel art indeed. They don't make em like this anymore.
What a legend of a game. But I remember it was quite buggy. It would eventually crash after a long play session. And there was some kind of exploit at the shop, buying and reselling stuff to get basically unlimited amounts of cash.
I need to man up and try this again. Loved the game in my youth, and got traumatized for having bad crack which made the game crash always before the end.
Tried this now once again with emulator or maybe it was even my real A1200, doesnt matter. But couldn't really survive shit anymore :D
Always grooved to the "slap my pants" loading screen
I'm no sure it is the best Amiga game but it's up there.
Amazing game, especially for its time!
I completed this game 3-4 times when it were new. I still remember how i beat the big dragon or something easily.
I used "Sword of Sharpness".. Smashing it's head from bottom right corner.
Remember me and four mates clearing this out and duelling at the end. Great game.
I remember playing this game in my mate's house the morning after finishing a bottle of Pernod! I threw up all over the wall and his mother had to clean it up. She was not happy, to say the least. Still, I thought it was a brilliant game but never completed it cos of an error right at the end!! I never had an amiga but I recollect really wanting one :)
lmfao
I never did work out how to get the moonstone to 'work' once I'd beaten the blue guardian, then I saw how you waited at your home village until just prior to the new moon...
Good stuff!
It depends on exactly *which* Moonstone you receive - each stone corresponds to a phase of the moon, and you can only enter Stonehenge when the moon is in the phase that matches the moonstone you have. Other players can target you to try and steal the stone during turns where you're waiting for the correct moon phase, which adds an extra level of suspense to the end-game 😉
the anims are BRUTAL
That was amazing this game was so hard I never got very far
Richtig gut 👌🏻
The first Souls-Like ever made!
I LOVED this game... But one of the Discs was broken, so I could only get to a certain point in the game ...
one of the hardest games i've ever played
I loved the spear, me and like 6 other friends used to play this against eachother.
Literally loved this game. It was solid though
One of the best games ever
My favorite amiga games
This is great game for remake with open world !
Great! Thank you. I never played the game to its end. Nice
Einfach eine Legende dieses Spiel
Played with my friends and brother on the amiga. It was very funny and we hunted each other for our nice stuff
Amazing game... The good old days on the Amiga sciving college to play
Game base on rock paper sizor mechanics. In modern games that was replaced by Dark Souls. I played a lot as a kid, moonstone was special. You could end that game in 2 hours and that was good we need that games in modern times.
I played this game so many times :D
Man those hammer bros are brutal.
i had a 2 player demo of this lol, very fun times but never found the full version
it would be nice to see it redesigned in 2023 with much more advanced graphics..
This game ...... is LEGENDARY ... the Amiga eh what a bit of kit that was... dont make them like they used too... the originality for games on the Amiga was off the charts! Best computer ive ever owned... my PC and PS5 included lol
Yes sir. Im still owning my Amiga 500... and waiting for Ps5 (but that is not gonna be a legend like amiga 500... Just wanna ps5 for drive club at 4K).
Those swamp monsters are scary as fuck!
I played the video while playing and we finished the game almost at the same time :-)...
i love this game my school bud had this on his 500, i seem to rem this could have been the first time i played on an amiga i may have used a shop one but i think it was on his, there were 3 of us who had a school sleepover at a weekend and we played his 500 mostly this but a other stuff as well, this made desperate to get my own so i could play incredible machine, ( i started off with a shared used spec and after it ended up breaking i ended up buying my own used specs i have a number of diff models not the ql the +2 and +3 i was able to slide it over for a better thing for an ok price myself, i then went on to a c64 because a diff bud with a 64c but i had the huge brick model just so i cud get copies of his games, (i did have one person with an st and it was ok but the games were not as deep with the sound) i eventually found a used a500 with games a joystick and some other stuff in a local shop for a reasonable price so i started to go in to overdrive because i didnt want to miss it i know popular these are (i was 14 at the time, i was putting everything from my paperround i used my bd and xmas and possibly took an early payments i also sold all of my tech and other stuff i had that could get an ok price and managed to get it eventually, it was the best purchase of my life i also got a copy of moonstone and managed to complete it on my own.
It felt wonderful finally beating the dragon and guardian when I was about 10, only for the guardian to die and game crashed with a Guru Meditation error!!
This game looks pretty
This game was so bloody hard
Well made and a fantastic atmosphere, the memories by finishing a battle by chopping head off. Remember this being as a "terrible example" in a program about video game violence ruining the youth. Wonder what they would have said about games like recent versions of GTA today...
Thank you for this nostalgia
i never completed the game, was hard :D think i was nine years old, had a blast with it tho.