Let's Play Castle of the Winds: 1, Our Story Begins

[Sephnroth]

I played through this one and the second one again recently, awesome stuff :) To those who want to play it: What I did was installed DosBox (free), grabbed a copy of windows 3.1 (google) and installed it and ran CoTW in there that way. ran great :)

[erdwaenor]

I've played so many times this game;

and would play again if there were additional versions, quests, spells, items and monsters.

I was expert at wasting time by Save/Load Game before going downstairs in a new dungeon floor level and detecting objects, because the entire map level (items included) is randomly generated the moment you go downstairs. Exemple: WTF!! No "Spellbook"?? Load!

[qwentin356]

This was the first computer game I ever played, I have such nostalgia for this game, I love it, this is better than diablo for me

[Zylv09]

how do you find all these secret doors?! I never found any so the first thing I used to choose as soon as I could was Phase Door to get to the secret rooms.

[evilbackpackgirl]

lol I just beat both.. and cloned sutar 10 times! XD

I'm crazy...

[nevroth]

STFU! I spent HOURS upon HOURS playing this game back in the day. I love you, marry me!!

[TetrisandRubiks]

This game functions like the fallout games and elder scrolls

[resoshen]

back when i played this i some how manage to glitch the hp, i think i some how went into negative constitution and then slept my way to infinite health.

[BaneOfIslam10]

This game's not hard. It's funner when harder.

[garceaj]

Aha, so there is someone who has done an LP of this game! I am planning to do one myself at some point, and I am also wondering how to record it.

[T3HM1CROM4N]

What did you use to record it? This game is awesome back in the day.

[wwepatriot1]

loved this game, it was like a really old antique watered down version of WOW if you think about it, knowing Blizzard, this game could of been where they got most of WOWs ideas from.

[AngrySkwerl]

I love this game. Sadly, I can't play it on my 64-bit Windows 7 system...

Does anyone know how?

[Litox1303]

@AngrySkwerl Did you ever figure it out? I wanna play this game again so badly! :(

[AngrySkwerl]

@Litox1303 there is a way...but it is INSANELY difficult. I decided just not to bother.

It involves getting ahold of a windows XP disc, then partitioning your hard drive to allow a portion of it to be installed with windows XP...just to play CoTW.

The other way is to use virtual machine, which is a major RAM eater.

At this point...I would say it would be simpler just to go buy a junk computer with windows 95-XP to play it.

AMAZING game though...really wish I could play it.

[Litox1303]

@AngrySkwerl I just wanna play this at work...it gets really boring when there's nothing to do. lol

And RAM's not an issue here; the "lamest" laptops have 8GB of RAM. But dude, that does sound difficult...

Thanks for the reply tho. :)

[elmundanito]

@MsBryanfreeman yeah but i usually die when i do that so i prefer use magic

[PokeBaal]

this game is better than halo!

[PopTartOfD00M]

really old game i love it its a true classic :)

[rebelincheck]

so gangster

[elmundanito]

i remenber this game and i play when i was a kid, but i never understand of all, first, bcuz the only way to attack was with spell, second there is no more information npcs... and the most important reason the game was in english , and i speak spanish so i never understand of all the game , but was really fun for me

[QuantumPolagnus]

I used to play this game so much when I was little. I must have been about 10 when I first played this, and I was obsessed with it. I still have fond memories of the hours and hours slogging through dungeons for minimal story. :)

[DancingFrozenWaves]

I loved this game when I was little. I used to watch my dad play it all the time, until one day I tried it for myself. Great sequel too.

[hamsterama]

Man, I was obsessed with this game when I was a little kid (that was back in the days when dial-up internet cost $2.00 an hour, so what else was I going to do on a computer). By the way, I was also never able to get the custom character icon feature to work, either.

[thejobloshow]

I. love. this. game. Technically the first RPG I became addicted to.

[greatgnomex]

This game is a legend , it starts me as a RPG gamer !!!! This and the first ultima's versions . Sorry my english

[minipancho94]

i found the download for the game but the files are to old for my computer open. stupid vista

[gigyas6]

I use to play this game alot... still wish I could play but there are no more discs lol.

[MorrandirGurthring]

You can download it from Rick Saada's website. He was the developer, just Google him and it should take you right there.

[petitmonstre]

where at? link?

[petitmonstre]

this used to be my fav game. hahhaaa i still love it. wish i still had a copy

[nesnahprotsdam]

You can download a free copy of it.

[kapeechudzik]

wow this game was the shit like 10 years ago

[bonbon1273]

wow I thought I was the only person who played this game! lol :)

[Gomagomes]

hehe dude, i remember when i was about 10, my dad bought me my first computer, a 486 and it came with this game, it was awesome! it was my first pc game, this and commander keen =D