Advanced Dungeons & Dragons : Gold & Silver Box Commodore 64 (Special)
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- My Documentary covering every single Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game released on the Commodore 64 by SSI from 1988 to 1991.
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I still remember going to my local computer store to get Pool of Radiance the second it was released. I was already a huge D&D nerd, so I couldn't wait to see what SSI did. Boy, I wasn't disappointed. Seriously, one of my favorite gaming memories ever. Love that game.
Pool was epic , they really went all out on it
My favourite games of all time on the C64 and the Amiga. I finished all the Gold Box games, including Matrix Cubed, which only came out on PC. I even finished Shadow Sorcerer on the Amiga. SSI were legends that did exceptionally well with the TSR license.
I loved Buck Rogers , its one of their best . SSI did a fantastic job with the liceance
That was brilliant - some of my favourite games from the C64 era.
Epic editing btw!
Thank you sir much appreciated
I still have my gold box Pool of Radiance, the 5.25 disks, decoder wheel, manual, even the registration papers. It all survived. What a perfect AD&D adaptation!
Yeah truly epic
Played and finished Pool, Curse and Secret on my C64 with the same party... I got now the GoG PC versions of the games, and i can play them over and over, they are so much fun.
Yeah I got the GOG dos packs as well , thinking about a follow up in the future maybe covering all the DOS releases ?
Same here! If you have not got it get the Gold Box Companion program, adds automap, auto level (no more Trainer needed!) etc
Haha, such a recognizable intro. I also went out of bed at around 5 in the morning to play games at my C64 back then.
Get some quality time before school.
I figured other people would have done the same thing 🤣👍 good times
I have found memories of spending time with my dad and our C-128 (almost always in c-64 mode). It's heartwarming to see the relationship you two have sharing retro gaming. Brings back great memories of my dad.
Cheers thank you , much appreciated
I saw this and first thought: "I need a fresh bag of potato chips."
🤣👍 enjoy
The Gold Box games were my jam back in the day. I had always wished for a good computer version of the D&D rules, because it was so hard to get a live game going that didn't break up in a couple of hours. I ended up beating all of them, with the exception of Azure. I think I got stuck on a roof with Black Dragons and just couldn't past them for whatever reason. Played Savage 2 on PC, and then stupid real life took over and I never played another one after that. Great memories and great video, Mr B!
Cheers thanks , I wish I had the time to replay these fully again but gaming as an adult is impossible for RPG'S anyway 😂
I still have my original Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds disks. Almost 40 years later, I still haven't finished either game, but I think I'm going to bring one of my C64s down from the Retro Room upstairs and set it up in my bedroom so I can put an hour into it each night before bed. :) I'm inspired to go back and finish them! (rather, start them over, because I have no idea where I left off...)
Hope you can complete them this time 👍👍
I'm playing Champions of Krynn right now at hardest difficulty. O boy is it hard as nails at this difficulty. Many reloads but very satisfying when you win battles. But i love it.
Good luck sir 👍
Great job on this one. I really enjoyed the SSI history at the beginning and how they beat out EA for the license a bit further in.
It's more satisfying thinking they beat EA in a modern sense but I'd love to have seen what EA had planned ... They were pretty awesome during that time although SSI knocked it outta the park ✅
@@BastichB64K Definitely. EA was a much different company in those days. I loved the old animated logo the would appear while the C64 games were loading.
loved War of the Lance too. I had never played anything like that and it was awesome. I remember the AI taking forever with its turn but i played on apple 2 so it may have been different for you. great content
The AI takes its sweet time on the c64 as well 😂 that's why I said you need at least 1 full day to even start this game 🤣🤣
Love the vid and the stroll down memory lane - Not sure if it's the accent, but "Krynn" is pronounced "Krin". As a Dragonlance nerd, this is driving me crazy. lol.
Thx for watching
Superb coverage as always! Keep up the good work.
Wow thank you sir , it was a lot of work but the subject was worth it i feel , cheers
Awesome docu B....congrats with that I enjoyed it!
Cheers thank you 😀👍👍👍
I remember Cloudy Mountain and Treasure of Tarmin, my introductions to AD&D, playing them both for years as a kid. When we got Pool of Radiance I noticed I wasn't a huge fan of it, but Curse of the Azure Bonds and Secret of the Silver Blades got me hyped. Then, the Krynn games... oh my god I loved that trilogy. Death Knights, Champions, Dark Queen... masterpieces each. For me, of course, I know not everyone feels the same way. It's like Buck Rodgers: Countdown to Doomsday - I loved it, not everyone did, and that's okay. I miss SSI so much. They were legendary and should have survived the 90s but... sadly...
Curse is one of the best Gold box releases . But my fav out if all of the TSR games was Buck Rodgers and Countdown to Doomsday , its was simply the coolest!!
@@BastichB64K Hopefully you'll fuel up the Maelstrom Rider once again and go on another grand tour of the solar system in an upcoming future episode! I know I'd love to see it.
@@TheBeardedFrogSage ill probably cover it in a future episode of Tales of a Dungeon basher ✅
I love that you included the Dungeon Masters Assistant releases, those two are an interesting addition to the range.
It was Curse of the Azure Bonds I played most, and like you I had the official Clue Book filled with helpful maps and tips.
I must admit I didn't play much of Pool of Radiance. I wasn't keen on Heroes of the Lance although I had recently read the book it was based on at the time; it felt pretty clunky and difficult to control - the graphics were not particularly good.
The price tag for second-hand games really puts me off adding more to my collection though.
I figured nobody ever mentions the Dungeon Master Assistants ever and I wanted to be thorough. Heroes is chunky , its not great but with a manual it's not too bad once you know what is going on , definitely not a high point though .
My first D&D experience was Pools of Radiance but on the Apple lle👍
Great start 🕹️👍
Bastich, thanks for your excellent research and presentation of these classic games. Champions of Krynn and Pool of Radiance were the first and still remain my favourites and gave me and my friends countless hours of fun. I need to mention that Secret of the Silver Blades wasn't as bad as it's reviews. It was definitely not a weak game and was probably underrated due to the flood of releases.
Thx for watching , yeah I dont think Silver is bad its definitely not my favorite for sure but its a fine addition never the less . Just wanted to give an alternate perspective to whatever I said .
@@BastichB64K I remember Silver took a bit to unfold it's story, especially the first hours were quite full of just battle, once past that point, it was just as good as the other games. Reviews weren't so good, neither in the US nor in Europe. I miss the SSI RPGs.
Put 1,000s and 1,000s of hours into my D&D gold box games - and other great cRPGs! I wish I had the same free time now as back then! But no Pool of Darkness?
Pool of Darkness wasn't released on the C64 , I literally say that in the video
@@BastichB64K Oh. Well, I have it on GOG. I thought it came out very soon after Radiance, so it was on C64...! Sorry!
@@gamingtonight1526 no prob , I believe it was a late 91 release so after they stopped the C64 versions.
man those games were frustrating with the overwhelming amount of misses i always got. those games were hard. i ended up getting secret of the silver blades for the amiga and regretted it because i didn't read that you could carry the characters over from the previous games. so i had to go back and buy the c64 version... unfortunately, i couldn't find it for a long time.
Yeah for both the Dragonlance games and Forgotten Realms ones you could import your characters , such a cool idea
Some of my fav games of all time, I actually had Pool of Radiance & Curse of the Azure Bonds, before I even had the system!
The Gold Box companion program is a must! Automap etc etc!
EOB 1 and 2 were also good.
Great start , fantastic games 🕹️👍
Thanks bashB!
My pleasure thank you for watching
Fantastic, 64k! We had some good times playing these games back then. Great video as always. Any plans to cover the Amiga and or PC games? Thanks!
Thanks , yeah the plan is to continue in DOS all the gold boxes that the c64 didnt get and the rest of the D&D games SSI made before the end . Its not coming anytime soon though that video took 2 months to make 😂😂
@@BastichB64K Very cool. Well it shows as your videos are always well above the bar.
4:22 what's that awesome tune dude?
Thanks for the video 😊👍🏼
Sorry im at work at the mo but all the tunes used are in the end credits , all C64 and PC-98 music
It's from the PC Engine game Dungeon Explorer, the track was Dungeon 3, you can find the full soundtrack on TH-cam. Great tunes!
@@yaroombabilly it's indeed a great soundtrack, thanks my dude 👍🏼
Love your T-shirt!
Cheers 👍👍
feel a bit bad for you being a youngster at the time since a bunch of these games were based on books. i didn't start reading until i was in high school and this was the perfect time for rpg games on my end. graduating in 1989 i had already read the books for these and had an edge... but they were still really hard
The video intro is just what I used to do back then my age was about 13 in 88 my daughter was just acting as me there and shes only 8 now ... Its basically the idea of it 👍👍
SSI = NOSTALGIA GREETINGS FROM ARGENTINA
Hey 😀👍 greetings and thx for watching
I don’t think anyones dad in 1988 was wearing a Sega sweatshirt.
My dad was extra fancy 🕹️👍
Amazing!
😀👍
played lots of pool of radiance on pc. secret of the silver blades as well, although that game had the power levels go to such levels that it's just a chore and the monsters are mostly of the annoying variety, like how many hundreds of umber hulks is a party supposed to kill?? you could feed the whole realm with the bodies of them. cockatrices and whatever else you can think too! all while mapping a random dungeon! first almost like a tutorial miniboss in secret of the silver blades is just a straight up red dragon lol.
too bad the newer game with the name of the pool of radiance was just a dungeon romp, what made pool of radiance feel so much more was that it wasn't just a dungeon romp, you had the city, other location encounters etc. just made it feel so much more than it really is. pool of radiance campaign done more like baldurs gate would still work quite well.
Yeah Silver blades I agree is a bit tedious like I said in the vid , battles are just too long and drawn out
your channel is awesome love your videos, Skaald is a new game that is heavily influenced by C64 CRPGs
Thx dude , yeah I really wanna play that it looks awesome
I think the only c64 SSI games I did NOT have was Dragons of Flame, War of the Lance, Dragonstrike, and Dungeon Masters Assistant vol II Characters & Treasures. I loved DMG vol I but never saw these other titles in the store. I remember buying Gateway to the Sacage Frontier and Death Knights of Krynn at the same store the same day as I had forgotten their releases. The store closed at the end of that year.
The amiga 500 allowed me to continue playing various games and the PC finished it. EOB I is still bedt on amiga for getting the ending and i curse PC for booting me direct to DOS.. boo!
Most of these never came to any software shops for me had to get the real physicals way later
While I'm quite nostalgic for these games, playing them today you REALLY have to be in a certain mindset to get through them. They're so unfriendly to the player. I really suggest Gold Box Companion if you do, as it helps immensely. Great games for the most part, though.
Playing the easyflash versions that are available now on real hardware or emu is the way to go it eliminates 90% of the loading and zero disk swapping . They are not as brutal in terms of difficulty as i remember..... The battles take a looooooooong time though
Champions of Krynn was the first game I ever beat on my own; RPG or otherwise. I still go back regularly to the Gold Box games, though I tend to skip Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds due to their somewhat rougher edges to the UI (no fix!). I also stick with the DOS versions for convenience, as they're long enough without the hour long load times and disk swapping of the good old Commodore 64.
They still have some of the best combat of any RPG from their era.
They did have the problem with the AD&D 1E ruleset, incidentally enough. They were too faithful, with the racial level limits basically killing demihumans from being viable in the later titles, at least in the Forgotten Realms titles. The Dragonlance titles were somewhat better, due to a much relaxed racial level limitations. The Elves could level with no cap as Ranger, Cleric, or Mage, with Qualinesti able to have unlimited Thief as well. Half-Elves could go Cleric or Thief unlimited. Dwarves at least can level fighter an unlimited amount of times.
It's telling that most of the later AD&D titles by SSI and others; Dark Sun, Eye of the Beholder, etc... did away with the racial level limits. Even though AD&D 2E retained them, even in the later revised version.
Thx for your insight and info , I played the easyflash C64 versions for this video or else the video would never have been made with that amount of loading 🤣👍👍
@@BastichB64K At least you could have read a few dozen books while loading.
@@drg5352 🤣👍👍👍
Why don’t Steam and GOG sell physical envelopes with the old box art and containing printed manuals and goodies…that would be awesome
It would be awesome to get rereleased physicals of these
Creating a character called Sean Bean sounds like you're dooming him from the start :-P
He died first ... As expected 😂
How faithful is the NES pool of radiance compared to the c64's?
Its not faithful at all , theres so much missing its definitely to be avoided
Are you made of yellow felt and do you drive a van?
Sure
It was not 'remade', it was plain and simply pirated.
??? Context
@@BastichB64K It (Eye of Beholder for C64) has stolen data files.