This game was damn hard, but bugger me, I loved it. The memory of it has stayed with me for a long time. So much so, a few weeks back watched a complete walkthrough on TH-cam!
This was such an enjoyable game. I remember one game where I managed to kill the dragon by glitching underneath its head and just stabbing upwards until it was dead.
I have great memories from this game. I was a bit hard for me, so never finished it, but still was great fun. The animation, sounds, ambience and gameplay where very good.
A brilliant game - I remember playing this co-op, when your friend was injured and fell to their knees you could bounce daggers off their gleaming helmet.
@@thehumbleone1983 Oh I agree, I saw a few longplays that made the game look pretty damn fun. I just wouldn't want it in the hands of the guys who ported Technocop and Stormlord.
Being American and raised in a family of more humble means, I always longed to play games like this when I was a kid. I got a C64 in maybe 1988 to go along with my NES, so seeing a game like Moonstone in an advertisement or review gave me the equivalent of gaming blue balls, since I'd never even seen an Amiga for sale in any store let alone an actual game for one. God bless emulation for letting me try out these old games that have a look and feel you simply can't get with anything made in the 21st century.
I played it on pc with my cousin and uncle...now seeing this and hearing it was banned in germany is interesting, because I was born 86 and I'm german, so my uncle obiously has his own understanding of what is ok for kids to play xD
It makes me laugh how modern weapon combat games have these ridiculously large super swords with jagged edges and fire spurting out of them and merely make your opponent flinch as if they'd been prodded with a garden cane. The weapons in Moonstone, on the other hand, felt vicious. They stabbed, sliced, skewered and decapitated! One of my favourite Amiga games of all time and one of the best multiplayer experiences ever.
I was dead jealous of the Amiga over this game. Had an Amstrad CPC 464, and couldn't afford an Amiga, and seeing this on Gamemaster (or other shows at the time) I wanted to play this sooooo bad.
Simple to play, hard to master. Recently I showed this masterpiece to some younger players and they were delighted. The kind of game that makes proud to belong to our generation.
This was the game that compelled me to badger my parents for 8 months in an effort to upgrade from the Sega Master System to the A500. It worked and this was the first game I played on it. I had the copied floppy disks in my top drawer for 5 months waiting patiently for that fateful day.
Loved and played this to death back in the day. Managed to finish it, the hardest part being avoiding the bugs TBH. The mudmonsters drown attack was truly terrifying!
I had a pirated copy of the game so it was really frustrating when it crashed during a longplay. I figured out that while the enemies had all their own behaviour on attack ( some were way dificult then the others and some can kill you instantly ), the worst thing one could make was to play first the easy ones, because they increase in quantity the longer one took to raid their lairs, and as so I always pick first the hardest creatures as it was way less dificult to fight just one instead of ten at the same time. Also me and my cousin loved to beat the crap of each other. This was one of the last games I played seriously way back 1993, just entered college and a my first girlfriend to take all my time. I was happy, I just didn´t knew it :(
One of my definitive favorite games from back in the day! I will never forget when I got smashed to pieces by those monsters with wooden logs! I went "oh....woow...this is AMAZING" And I agree 100% this has really stood the test of time! Very good video Kim! Only one complaint! Would love this video to be much longer! 😜 😉
I swear down I was telling my missus yesterday about you yesterday and love watching your vids. Then I was telling her about amiga copy party’s and this game had the most discs lol. Weird as fuck. Keep going Kim!!! I love all your videos xxx
Great video about one of the Amiga titles that I have so much nostalgic love for. Never owned an Amiga but borrowed from friends on a few occasions. The music, the atmosphere. The loading messages The gore, yes, but it was just a little bit of what made me come back to this dark world. Thanks Kim.
Moonstone is such an awesome game. I wasn't aware that it didn't do well in terms of sale and recognition back in the day. It was quite well known in the Amiga circles around me. I remember that it was hard to master, but not impossible as one of the articles said. I've completed it many times. Sadly, I don't remember ever playing multiplayer. Besides that, many fond memories.
Awesome game, never managed to finish it. I could not defeat the Dragon or the Black Knight. The only bit of the map I felt comfortable dealing with was the forest. The swamp area I remember being the hardest of all. Fun times 😁
Moonstone was so good, i remember when me and my friends first started playing this, we got our asses beat by almost every mob, and the dragon was terrifying, but once you figured the moves it was just a race to be the first to get the sword of sharpness lol.
Moonstone sort of reminds me of another game that came out in recent years on modern gaming devices, That game being Armello. both games feel like digital adaptations of Tabletop RPGs for one thing. There not quite the same as the big difference is Armello has anthro animals and isn't nearly as gory as Moonstone was, but I feel like it improves on the concept that Moonstone was attempting. For one Armello has a long list if unique characters with there own stats and abilities, the combat is decided through dice rolls as well as a combination of various other stats, you have ingame cards that function as character equipment/spells/and additional party members, not to mention the game has an online multiplayer component. It feels like the next logical evolution of what Moonstone set out to do.
Great game, though like most people I had it on "backup". The crashes were frustrating, and I dont think the retail version was much better. I have never seen a boxed copy in the flesh
Oh, how i love this game. Moonstone, Legacy of Sorasil, Darkmere and Lemings are my absolute favorites on amiga. Now with A500Mini it will be played a lot :D
Any seasoned player of Moonstone is aware of the absolute fuckery fighting two spearmen. Plus the palpations experienced fighting against the mud monsters.
Yes! If you weren't careful you'd end up getting one on each side of the screen and they could basically stun-lock you by taking turns to attack. The swamp monsters were more lethal though. And scarier!
Thanks for highlighting this amazing game, Kim! I pined for this game for years after seeing it in Amiga Power, but only got it near the end of my time with the Amiga (I was in Australia, so harder to get). Loved it have never found the time to play it more...
Utterly amazing game on amiga. Moonstone had me captivated for years. The wizard in the tower was very lord of the rings, and never completed it, but thumped hours into it back in the day.
Once you got decent at the combat mechanics it was fairly easy to beat. Just work your way to the centre and wait for the knights to arrive. Then chop their head off and grab their loot! Certainly a better bet than exploring TOO much and getting murdered by some of the the more aggressive wildllife :)
@@RetroGamebloke i think it was the swamps that got me. Iused to get about halfway...and death occurred 🤣👍. I used to love that start up movie too with the druids. I remember being blown away by it at the time. I was selling amigas in a shop back in the day, moonstone and shadow of the beast, and... lsd docs public domain demo 'budbrain' and 'chaos' were what i used to demo as the system seller in the shop.
Definitely a childhood favorite. Barely understood a word of English back then being a Swedish kid and all, but I understood enough of the basics to have a lot of fun with it. Even reached the final boss a few times, even tho the game did tend to crash during the battle. Also that dang swamp monster always scared the crap out of me back then and it took a while before I learned how to fight back against it. Ah, good times. Looking at it today, I am honestly impressed by how reactive the AI is to player movement and how many different ways of attacking the player some of the enemies have. There really were a lot of passion going into this game and it shows.
Top video Kim Love this game, had fond memories of it bitd with friends playing a copied version as I never remembered seeing an original for sale… Then in around 2005 I tried to find one when I started buying back all my Amiga games I had, but couldn’t remember the name of it🙄then when I finally found something online it said it was one of the most sought after Amiga games out there and expect to pay around £80!😳😳 I couldn’t believe it as i was picking Amiga games up for 99p on eBay back then I finally found 1 not far from me for £40 a few years later so snapped it up Owned about 5 more since and upgraded it where I could…owed 3 at one point at the same time as I’ve found it cheap quite a few times Masterpiece of a game
I find this game much more samey in reality when playing it than some of the better Cinemaware games like It Came from the Desert. It's the same problem I have with Wings and Elite, no matter how 'epic' the game is or allegedly long lasting you actually end up doing the same gameplay over and over....and at a frame rate/controller response beneath what even a 1985 Amiga 1000's abilities, the problems you get with graphically very impressive games like Sword of Sodan.
i rememebr seeing the poster in ACE MAGZINE (still have that mag) and was blown away, got the game, i was shocked about 2 things, it looked nowhere near as good as the poster , maybe because i had the IBM PC version ? and the game was criptic as hell and was a teenager...shame.
As a kid I had a boxed copy of Moonstone. I remember a lad from school came round to play, asked to borrow it (which I allowed) and then never spoke to me again. Ah the regrets - I still own all my Amiga games from back then so I'd still have it if it wasn't for that lad that I don't even remember the name of. I never really got into it though, I remember it being too hard for me.
Loved to play this hotseat with my friends and big brother. So many nostalgic memories, it’s a shame modern games don’t give this same feeling anymore…
I feel like the hybrid style of gameplay is really an 80s/90s thing. Sword Of The Samurai has a mix of turn-based strategy, RTS, empire-building, and real-time combat.
Thanks for the great video. I loved this game as well in the US back in 1992. Never finished it though as the cracked copy I had would crash near the end at random. I understand that the game is buggy. The WHDLoad install supposedly fixes some of the bugs.
This game was so awesome! And it was huge, at least in our area in Sweden. I had abad copy of it though so it always crashed at some point. But I did get to finish it eventually. Thanks for a great upload! 👍
Banning Moonstone only made it more desirable, and the pirated version was widely circulated in Germany. I remember playing it with my older brother and later on, when I got his old Amiga, with my friends from school. Multiplayer was incredibly fun, and it's one of my favourite games on the system, really a classic.
I did play this back in the day, pirate copy Im afraid and the biggest issue we found (most likely because it was a cracked version) was that it crashed randomly. BUT even despite this the game was amazing and they few times I did play it it was with 3 other mates so although we never got to the end we had so much fun playing it the way it was meant to be - 4 players.
Moonstone was a very popular set of pirated disks on Sweden. The game crashed when entering the central region, but the gory battles and moody music fascinated anyway. The swamp monsters are genuinely terrifying!
Loved this back in the day. The hack and slash was great fun .loads of blood and brilliant graphics. Will deff be adding to the mini amiga 500 when it turns up in April
One of my top 5 games on the Amiga, absolutely amazing and so fun in multiplayer. It's too bad noone have made a remake of it, perhaps with a bit more depth or more game modes.
The game was fun, but yes, its buggy and some times crash. This can been why the lower score in one of the review.... The whdload version should been less buggy throught.
Was something you heard about on the wind "have you played/seen Moonstone?". The horrific noise of those beasts off screen pounding the ground about to charge you filled me with a nameless dread.
I loved this game... even if it was absolutely devastatingly brutal. I am almost embarrassed to say I have a copy (pirate disk) here at home in storage. Maybe with all you micros videos this will be the spring when the Amiga will see sunlight once again.
Poor school kid me only had a cracked copy of this, which always crashed going into the final battle. Didn't stop us playing it tons though, great in multiplayer.
Indeed before Mortal combat there was Moonstone, and with a moment in time as teenager with 4 or 5 friends l recount that was a special time that we had together, fond memories ❤ We were totally innocent with in our blood lust, and probably disappeared too at that time that there was hardly any blood letting on Star Wars films., has it changed since Mmmm? It was fun on a Low key scenario, usually don't tell you mum would be general thing. At its best, It was fun in a relaxing way with friends happy pissing the time away. If you're in the need for speed, then this game won't satisfy you a all, It take it time between players The world building on Moonstone game visually at that time felt well realised with many interesting creatures or monsters, and didn't do any bad silly things to my mind as if not to include a Dragon. The tactical movements were challenging and yet satisfying in discovering in each case the patterns in which to fight and just when you thought you had sussed it out, you'll be brought back a peg or two to catch up with ones school mates once again 😉 as the shakyness between us all as to hom would stay alive the longest, if not to win it out right, made this a great game of competitive fun, as well as to see and enjoy the next level of that blood bath in it gorey glory. To me..It felt special and true to its source material. in away though scantily similar to Boomerman in that to bring a grouping lot of male bonding people's together for the love of games.
Honestly, as an American I’ve never seen or heard of Moonstone before. Based on the clips in your video, I’m not sure sure it would have done well if released over here. It has that jankiness that Europeans didn’t seem to mind, but for whatever reason wasn’t tolerated in the US.
Brilliant game that should be considered amongst the best the Amiga could offer. The only negative was the crashes. I remember playing this and collecting all the keys and it crashed on the way to Stonehenge. I was to say the least gutted.
I seem to remember this game getting banned because of the violence. I first saw this at a school bud's and I managed to get a copy off him , we used to play 3 player with 3 school mates which was great fun when you end up getting in a scrap with them and lopping each others heads off. I managed to complete this game quite a few times, it was pretty tough to begin with but when you work out how to play it was a little easier, I seem to remember there was no save feature so if I had to disappear I just left my Amiga on.
About time you got around to this game. I remember you saying you never played it much back in the day? Still play this on my emulator and loooved it as a kid.
No mention of the mutliplayer? That was the best bit :D 4 players huddled around a keyboard and some joysticks lobbing off each other's heads. Great back in the day!
What are your memories of the almighty Moonstone: A Hard Day's Knight? Is it still a game you love? Leave your comments, and thanks for watching. :)
This game was damn hard, but bugger me, I loved it. The memory of it has stayed with me for a long time. So much so, a few weeks back watched a complete walkthrough on TH-cam!
Didn't have moonstone back in the day..I had an ste ..got it now on amiga 1200 maybe I'll give it a go now ..great video kim hope ur doing well 💗
This was such an enjoyable game. I remember one game where I managed to kill the dragon by glitching underneath its head and just stabbing upwards until it was dead.
I have great memories from this game. I was a bit hard for me, so never finished it, but still was great fun. The animation, sounds, ambience and gameplay where very good.
A brilliant game - I remember playing this co-op, when your friend was injured and fell to their knees you could bounce daggers off their gleaming helmet.
I'm surprised they never tried releasing a Mega Drive port of the game, especially as Technocop and Stormlord were snapped up for their gory-ness.
Does seem a bit strange. Of course, the Mega Drive ports of Technocop and Stormlord are pretty good arguments against such an attempt...
To Big Mabey ???
I would have loved a Mega Drive port
@@thehumbleone1983 Absolutely! Would be a great opportunity for a sort of remaster/director's cut:-)
@@thehumbleone1983 Oh I agree, I saw a few longplays that made the game look pretty damn fun. I just wouldn't want it in the hands of the guys who ported Technocop and Stormlord.
Being American and raised in a family of more humble means, I always longed to play games like this when I was a kid. I got a C64 in maybe 1988 to go along with my NES, so seeing a game like Moonstone in an advertisement or review gave me the equivalent of gaming blue balls, since I'd never even seen an Amiga for sale in any store let alone an actual game for one. God bless emulation for letting me try out these old games that have a look and feel you simply can't get with anything made in the 21st century.
Still haven't played this, but I will =D Was the follow up worth of a video?
I was thinking of playing a bit of Moonstone again... just for fun. Bought it last year on GOG.
I played it on pc with my cousin and uncle...now seeing this and hearing it was banned in germany is interesting, because I was born 86 and I'm german, so my uncle obiously has his own understanding of what is ok for kids to play xD
Looks good. wonder if we see it on Evercade or Antstream ?
Germany’s Herr Trigger censors! Very good! Very droll!
SO HAPPY you covered Moonstone. I'm still obsessed with this game.
It makes me laugh how modern weapon combat games have these ridiculously large super swords with jagged edges and fire spurting out of them and merely make your opponent flinch as if they'd been prodded with a garden cane. The weapons in Moonstone, on the other hand, felt vicious. They stabbed, sliced, skewered and decapitated!
One of my favourite Amiga games of all time and one of the best multiplayer experiences ever.
I was dead jealous of the Amiga over this game. Had an Amstrad CPC 464, and couldn't afford an Amiga, and seeing this on Gamemaster (or other shows at the time) I wanted to play this sooooo bad.
Simple to play, hard to master. Recently I showed this masterpiece to some younger players and they were delighted. The kind of game that makes proud to belong to our generation.
Used to love Moonstone back in the early 90’s, still remember my mate screaming when a monster jumped out of the ground and instantly killed him!
Yes!!!!! Moonstone is an absolute classic, nothing else ever like it
OMG this game! Whole afternoons were lost with friends around it... Fond memories indeed!
Whole days were lost waiting for it to load. Then crash. Then reload. Rewatch intro. Crash. Reload. Rewatch intro
This was the game that compelled me to badger my parents for 8 months in an effort to upgrade from the Sega Master System to the A500.
It worked and this was the first game I played on it. I had the copied floppy disks in my top drawer for 5 months waiting patiently for that fateful day.
Loved and played this to death back in the day. Managed to finish it, the hardest part being avoiding the bugs TBH. The mudmonsters drown attack was truly terrifying!
I loved this game. Me and my friends spent so much time on it. It's a pity it was a was a very buggy game. I hope they do a sequel :)
I just pre ordered the Amiga mini, half thanks to watching your channel for so long. This channel is a gem!
How are finding the mini? I'm enjoying mine but whd files can be buggy or run too fast.
I had a pirated copy of the game so it was really frustrating when it crashed during a longplay. I figured out that while the enemies had all their own behaviour on attack ( some were way dificult then the others and some can kill you instantly ), the worst thing one could make was to play first the easy ones, because they increase in quantity the longer one took to raid their lairs, and as so I always pick first the hardest creatures as it was way less dificult to fight just one instead of ten at the same time. Also me and my cousin loved to beat the crap of each other. This was one of the last games I played seriously way back 1993, just entered college and a my first girlfriend to take all my time. I was happy, I just didn´t knew it :(
One of my definitive favorite games from back in the day! I will never forget when I got smashed to pieces by those monsters with wooden logs! I went "oh....woow...this is AMAZING" And I agree 100% this has really stood the test of time! Very good video Kim! Only one complaint! Would love this video to be much longer! 😜 😉
I swear down I was telling my missus yesterday about you yesterday and love watching your vids. Then I was telling her about amiga copy party’s and this game had the most discs lol. Weird as fuck. Keep going Kim!!! I love all your videos xxx
Great video about one of the Amiga titles that I have so much nostalgic love for. Never owned an Amiga but borrowed from friends on a few occasions. The music, the atmosphere. The loading messages The gore, yes, but it was just a little bit of what made me come back to this dark world. Thanks Kim.
here in sweden, every time i meet someone who had an amiga i'll say "remember moonstone?" and they'll light up and go "YES"
As a kid I was too scared of ever going into the swamp areas to be honest. Strong memories of this game.
This game always frustrated me so much. It was exactly the kind of game I wanted to play but it was too hard to play :)
Moonstone is such an awesome game. I wasn't aware that it didn't do well in terms of sale and recognition back in the day. It was quite well known in the Amiga circles around me. I remember that it was hard to master, but not impossible as one of the articles said. I've completed it many times. Sadly, I don't remember ever playing multiplayer. Besides that, many fond memories.
one of my favorite games ever! I wish there was a modern remake of Moonstone
Awesome game, never managed to finish it. I could not defeat the Dragon or the Black Knight. The only bit of the map I felt comfortable dealing with was the forest. The swamp area I remember being the hardest of all. Fun times 😁
Thanks for the shout out to Moonstone Tavern Kim - great to see the game finally get some Justice lovin’! 👍👏
I was always rather partial to Moonstone. I’m glad to see it get the recognition it deserves:)
Moonstone was so good, i remember when me and my friends first started playing this, we got our asses beat by almost every mob, and the dragon was terrifying, but once you figured the moves it was just a race to be the first to get the sword of sharpness lol.
The *_Unreal_* music in the intro demonstrated your enthusiasm straight away, great job with this vid.
Moonstone sort of reminds me of another game that came out in recent years on modern gaming devices, That game being Armello. both games feel like digital adaptations of Tabletop RPGs for one thing.
There not quite the same as the big difference is Armello has anthro animals and isn't nearly as gory as Moonstone was, but I feel like it improves on the concept that Moonstone was attempting.
For one Armello has a long list if unique characters with there own stats and abilities, the combat is decided through dice rolls as well as a combination of various other stats, you have ingame cards that function as character equipment/spells/and additional party members, not to mention the game has an online multiplayer component.
It feels like the next logical evolution of what Moonstone set out to do.
Great game, though like most people I had it on "backup". The crashes were frustrating, and I dont think the retail version was much better. I have never seen a boxed copy in the flesh
Many hours have been spent in this wonderful game in the good old Amiga days, it was a great time! 😎
My favorite game as a kid and it was my entry point to fantasy, DnD etc.
Had to wait until Skyrim came out to fill the Moonstone shaped hole in my gaming soul
We need a moonstone remake!!
Oh, how i love this game. Moonstone, Legacy of Sorasil, Darkmere and Lemings are my absolute favorites on amiga. Now with A500Mini it will be played a lot :D
This game is absolutely begging to get a spiritual successor.
Another very interesting video, great job it looks like an interesting game
Any seasoned player of Moonstone is aware of the absolute fuckery fighting two spearmen. Plus the palpations experienced fighting against the mud monsters.
Yes! If you weren't careful you'd end up getting one on each side of the screen and they could basically stun-lock you by taking turns to attack. The swamp monsters were more lethal though. And scarier!
Two spearmen was guaranteed to lose a life or two.
I could never get my head around the combat when I was a kid
Thanks for highlighting this amazing game, Kim! I pined for this game for years after seeing it in Amiga Power, but only got it near the end of my time with the Amiga (I was in Australia, so harder to get). Loved it have never found the time to play it more...
Utterly amazing game on amiga. Moonstone had me captivated for years. The wizard in the tower was very lord of the rings, and never completed it, but thumped hours into it back in the day.
Once you got decent at the combat mechanics it was fairly easy to beat. Just work your way to the centre and wait for the knights to arrive. Then chop their head off and grab their loot! Certainly a better bet than exploring TOO much and getting murdered by some of the the more aggressive wildllife :)
@@RetroGamebloke i think it was the swamps that got me. Iused to get about halfway...and death occurred 🤣👍.
I used to love that start up movie too with the druids. I remember being blown away by it at the time. I was selling amigas in a shop back in the day, moonstone and shadow of the beast, and... lsd docs public domain demo 'budbrain' and 'chaos' were what i used to demo as the system seller in the shop.
@@Sabre_Wulf1 Moonstones intro was top class at the time. Good music and visuals and all from floppy!
Definitely a childhood favorite. Barely understood a word of English back then being a Swedish kid and all, but I understood enough of the basics to have a lot of fun with it. Even reached the final boss a few times, even tho the game did tend to crash during the battle. Also that dang swamp monster always scared the crap out of me back then and it took a while before I learned how to fight back against it. Ah, good times.
Looking at it today, I am honestly impressed by how reactive the AI is to player movement and how many different ways of attacking the player some of the enemies have. There really were a lot of passion going into this game and it shows.
Elden ring has an ancestor
Basically Elden Ring '91
Top video Kim
Love this game, had fond memories of it bitd with friends playing a copied version as I never remembered seeing an original for sale…
Then in around 2005 I tried to find one when I started buying back all my Amiga games I had, but couldn’t remember the name of it🙄then when I finally found something online it said it was one of the most sought after Amiga games out there and expect to pay around £80!😳😳 I couldn’t believe it as i was picking Amiga games up for 99p on eBay back then
I finally found 1 not far from me for £40 a few years later so snapped it up
Owned about 5 more since and upgraded it where I could…owed 3 at one point at the same time as I’ve found it cheap quite a few times
Masterpiece of a game
I find this game much more samey in reality when playing it than some of the better Cinemaware games like It Came from the Desert. It's the same problem I have with Wings and Elite, no matter how 'epic' the game is or allegedly long lasting you actually end up doing the same gameplay over and over....and at a frame rate/controller response beneath what even a 1985 Amiga 1000's abilities, the problems you get with graphically very impressive games like Sword of Sodan.
i rememebr seeing the poster in ACE MAGZINE (still have that mag) and was blown away, got the game, i was shocked about 2 things, it looked nowhere near as good as the poster , maybe because i had the IBM PC version ? and the game was criptic as hell and was a teenager...shame.
Moonstone, Harlequin, Apidya, Wizkid and Darkseed still excite me today...amazing games!!!
As a kid I had a boxed copy of Moonstone. I remember a lad from school came round to play, asked to borrow it (which I allowed) and then never spoke to me again. Ah the regrets - I still own all my Amiga games from back then so I'd still have it if it wasn't for that lad that I don't even remember the name of.
I never really got into it though, I remember it being too hard for me.
Loved to play this hotseat with my friends and big brother. So many nostalgic memories, it’s a shame modern games don’t give this same feeling anymore…
I feel like the hybrid style of gameplay is really an 80s/90s thing. Sword Of The Samurai has a mix of turn-based strategy, RTS, empire-building, and real-time combat.
Loved this game. Used to drop acid with a mate and play it all night long...or should that be knight long. Anyway, was brilliant fun.
Thanks for the great video. I loved this game as well in the US back in 1992. Never finished it though as the cracked copy I had would crash near the end at random. I understand that the game is buggy. The WHDLoad install supposedly fixes some of the bugs.
Moonstone is an all time classic. I bloody loved it.
Nice video ! Can you tell me what is the music for the "Why Was Moonstone Unsuccessful?"part ? Thank you ! :)
This game was so awesome! And it was huge, at least in our area in Sweden. I had abad copy of it though so it always crashed at some point. But I did get to finish it eventually. Thanks for a great upload! 👍
They say games have gotten more expensive but if this game was £30 back in 1991 then that would closer to £70 today accounting for inflation
three or four kids, friends, playing this on my A500 in my room back in the early 90's...is something I can never forget!
Spend many hours playing this. Still remember all tricks how to fight all kinds of monsters.
Banning Moonstone only made it more desirable, and the pirated version was widely circulated in Germany. I remember playing it with my older brother and later on, when I got his old Amiga, with my friends from school. Multiplayer was incredibly fun, and it's one of my favourite games on the system, really a classic.
Man this brings back memories, though oddly, of a demo disk my brother played when I was nought but five years old. Thereabouts
We covered Gremlin, Psygnosis, Ocean, US Gold, Bitmap Brothers, System 3, Team17, Cinemaware, Ultimate Play the Game, Bullfrog, Codemasters and Core Design. What’s next? Mastertronic? Virgin Interactive? Rare Ltd? Elite Systems? Hewson Consultants? Rebellion? The Sales Curve? Stainless Games?
Brilliantly-timed video Kim: I've just finished reading Ivanhoe.
Great game.. just watching princess bride, with the giant rats 🐀.... reminded me of it
when you discovered you could give Danu just ordinary daggers for for extra lives was the best discovery ever
I did play this back in the day, pirate copy Im afraid and the biggest issue we found (most likely because it was a cracked version) was that it crashed randomly. BUT even despite this the game was amazing and they few times I did play it it was with 3 other mates so although we never got to the end we had so much fun playing it the way it was meant to be - 4 players.
Great review! I remember this game used to crash on my A500 sometimes.
Love the quality of your videos Kim!
Moonstone was a very popular set of pirated disks on Sweden. The game crashed when entering the central region, but the gory battles and moody music fascinated anyway. The swamp monsters are genuinely terrifying!
Loved this back in the day. The hack and slash was great fun .loads of blood and brilliant graphics. Will deff be adding to the mini amiga 500 when it turns up in April
One of my top 5 games on the Amiga, absolutely amazing and so fun in multiplayer. It's too bad noone have made a remake of it, perhaps with a bit more depth or more game modes.
Hi! Someone know what is the game after speedball 2 at 0.22 second? Thanks!
The game was fun, but yes, its buggy and some times crash. This can been why the lower score in one of the review.... The whdload version should been less buggy throught.
Was something you heard about on the wind "have you played/seen Moonstone?". The horrific noise of those beasts off screen pounding the ground about to charge you filled me with a nameless dread.
I loved this game... even if it was absolutely devastatingly brutal. I am almost embarrassed to say I have a copy (pirate disk) here at home in storage. Maybe with all you micros videos this will be the spring when the Amiga will see sunlight once again.
One of my favourite Amiga games of all time :) Thanks Kim, great video
Poor school kid me only had a cracked copy of this, which always crashed going into the final battle. Didn't stop us playing it tons though, great in multiplayer.
Indeed before Mortal combat there was Moonstone, and with a moment in time as teenager with 4 or 5 friends l recount that was a special time that we had together, fond memories ❤ We were totally innocent with in our blood lust, and probably disappeared too at that time that there was hardly any blood letting on Star Wars films., has it changed since Mmmm? It was fun on a Low key scenario, usually don't tell you mum would be general thing.
At its best, It was fun in a relaxing way with friends happy pissing the time away.
If you're in the need for speed, then this game won't satisfy you a all, It take it time between players
The world building on Moonstone game visually at that time felt well realised with many interesting creatures or monsters, and didn't do any bad silly things to my mind as if not to include a Dragon. The tactical movements were challenging and yet satisfying in discovering in each case the patterns in which to fight and just when you thought you had sussed it out, you'll be brought back a peg or two to catch up with ones school mates once again 😉 as the shakyness between us all as to hom would stay alive the longest, if not to win it out right, made this a great game of competitive fun, as well as to see and enjoy the next level of that blood bath in it gorey glory.
To me..It felt special and true to its source material. in away though scantily similar to Boomerman in that to bring a grouping lot of male bonding people's together for the love of games.
The intro music used to scare the crap out of me while watching my brother play... and the swamp monster... Jesus christ
Honestly, as an American I’ve never seen or heard of Moonstone before. Based on the clips in your video, I’m not sure sure it would have done well if released over here. It has that jankiness that Europeans didn’t seem to mind, but for whatever reason wasn’t tolerated in the US.
I haven't played this in so long, if I remember rightly I never really survived long.
I keep getting surprised by how much i appreciate your videos. Keep up the good work. They are all really good.
Loved it back then. Would have bought it. But living in Germany…
Great review!
Brilliant game that should be considered amongst the best the Amiga could offer. The only negative was the crashes. I remember playing this and collecting all the keys and it crashed on the way to Stonehenge. I was to say the least gutted.
I seem to remember this game getting banned because of the violence.
I first saw this at a school bud's and I managed to get a copy off him , we used to play 3 player with 3 school mates which was great fun when you end up getting in a scrap with them and lopping each others heads off.
I managed to complete this game quite a few times, it was pretty tough to begin with but when you work out how to play it was a little easier, I seem to remember there was no save feature so if I had to disappear I just left my Amiga on.
Worth noting that "a mere 73" from Amiga Power is not quite the scathing brand of mediocrity it might be elsewhere.
Amazing, one of my favourite retro gaming you tubers covers one of my most fondly remembered amiga games, can't wait to give it a proper watcb
My mother yelled at my older brother for playing this game with me:) I was 8 years old, lol!
About time you got around to this game. I remember you saying you never played it much back in the day? Still play this on my emulator and loooved it as a kid.
I wonder how would modern games fare in the reviews of the magazines and by the standards from those early '90s days?
Used to to love playing this with my mates, the pvp was fun and then beheading each with the dagger was funny to watch.
No mention of the mutliplayer? That was the best bit :D 4 players huddled around a keyboard and some joysticks lobbing off each other's heads. Great back in the day!
This is the Amiga game i played the most as a kid. Love moonstone. Greetings from Denmark.
I remember playing this game as a kid. I didn't even know about the leveling up.I loved it. Even if it kicked my butt every time.
Also, as a 15 year old it was hilarious to read that one loading screen warning as 'Beware the fierce bollocks of the northern wastelands'.