Defender Of The Crown Atari ST game intro

[MrFlibble2011]

This blew me away on Amiga.

[vegunited06]

lol 2011 and the st vs amiga still goes on.

[MartinK303]

I used to watch in awe of my dad when he played this, he conquered all of England and Wales a few times. Seriously, they should make this game into a film or someting, I would pay to watch this if it were a film

[Grogz40]

Hearing this on an Atari ST makes my ears hurt. No comparison at all compared to the Amiga.

[bobbystar101]

@Grogz40 LOL

Well it was you that clicked on the atari vid rather than the amiga one!

[HolgerDenmark]

Hm... I think the Amiga version had better graphics and sound, at least to my recollection...

great game though. played the PC cd version quite a bit too when that came out 10+ years ago

[thomastvivlarenDOTse]

I loved this game and bought it too. It was the first Rob Northen protection I bumped into. Clever at the time but of course not uncrackable... ;)

[thorgallpl]

the sound chip in the st series was just awful. even the 8 bit atari had a much better sound chip and was manufactured in 1979! jack tramiel: what were u thinking??

[Adropacrich2]

Very well handled tune this for the limited ST

[csg8501]

I remember playing this game for days (C64 version), the only reason of not playing it for weeks or months being that by that time, I hadn't owned a C64 myself... Richard Joseph made an excellent cover of the music for the SID that I still prefer over any other versions, even the original one for the Amiga (and by far...), and even despite the fact that I actually like YM/AY tunes, too...

[seedoffool2]

I forget which version my brother played (I remember it was black&white) but he win every single game, but he was poor in jout. Now, when DotC Heroes Lives Forever is released in trial I won almost all joust, especially for the land, once I saved myself from siege by winning land when his army was.

[PompeyPirates]

I loved this game... and was one of the few originals I actually bought.

[LAGERL0UT]

i sold my st for an amiga.this game was better on the st though.the amiga version was buggy as hell with strange happenings broken sound and all in all totally random if you know what i mean.this version is much more polished

[madmomentsgo]

this is a great game, i played this for hours. good memories watching this again. cool music to the game as well.

[SkuldChan42]

I hate to say this, but yeah the game looks ok, but the sound sounds out of tune. This game originally came out on the Commodore Amiga and you'll notice the song is different.

[daxspanx]

used to love this !!

[deicidehell]

much nicer sound compared to th amiga version,

[neomedia74]

What are you deaf? The Amiga version music blows this beep-bop crap away.

[m1omg]

He's probably either a chiptune fan or an Atari ST fanboy or just nostalgic for Atari ST.

[JackReeve]

the atari st is still 1 of my fave gaming machines and i loved it every time when this music hit i had an atari st till about i was 5-6 in 1995 was absoloutly awesome and this is still in top 5 fave games

[Ahle2]

I actually agree, the Amiga version uses pseudo PSG sounds instead of the more common PCM sounds used in other games.

I dont have a clue why Cinamaware didn´t make the Amiga version sound better, considered that the Amiga had the best sound hardware available at the time?

[MrPragmatism]

Fully agree with you on that, i have played DOTC on Atari 520ST and Commodore 64 and the Atari version was alot better than the 64.

Im not sure if DOTC2 was released on atari but i saw a vid on youtube for the Commodore CDTV and it looked amazing for the time.

[shaneyw30]

i use to watch me dad play this game and when i tried to play it kept getting me ass whooped! nice to see it again.

[JackReeve]

i cud play this game all day i loved it wen I was 3-6 wen we had an stE early 90's was shit at it but loved the whole exp of playing it with the medevil stuff felt like a proper story which was rare at the time

u can play a vers of it on the cinemaware site its p cool

ST rocks i want 1 again :D

[Umeavisby]

I remember this generic. I loved to play this game when I had young boy.

Souvenir, souvenir...

[itblanchard]

Hello all,

I've just been on this game, cracking game along with Xenon2.

[uggla03]

i actually think the st version looked and played better than the amiga version

[brann1999]

Stands to reason, as the ST was a better machine than the Amiga. ;)

[Ahle2]

LOL, yeah right!

The technical knowledge in the Atari world, was and still is very looow. The Atari ST is technical inferior to the Amiga 500 in every single way, except for the CPU (8Mhz VS 7,14Mhz)

I know fanboys gonna down thumb me, but that just proves my statemant, they know nothing about hardware !

PS. By the way i used to love my ST when i had one :)

[zeusgb]

Better isn't just about the hardware it's about the whole experience.

[Ahle2]

You are right.... I have bought an STE on Ebay (It will arrive any day now), just to relive those happy childhood days. I used to play Bombuzal, Nebulus, Bombjack, Stargoose ... and a lot other games on the ST. But to be honest, it was when i got my Amiga the real fun began. Both games and software was better (with exception for midi software and desktop publishing).

[trophy242]

Seems you're the biggest Amiga fanboy here ;-) Anyway, I really appreciate you work on ST/STE vs Amiga comparisions. Although, I think that we - ST/STE freaks - know it enough, that Amiga has all those custom chips, AD/DA converters for sound and so on... I really like both machines - Amiga and ST/STE, but to be honest I've more fun playing with ST/STE than with Amiga. Even if it play samples less cool than Amiga or YM2149 sounds makes my head exploding ;-). The clue is - WHOLE EXPERIENCE.

[trophy242]

You're right in 100%. Another proof in my case is... I had 520 STM from 1988 to 1993. Then I bought PC. During that time I had a lot of opportunities to work with Amigas, I have also enough opportunities to compare Amiga with the ST or STE to find out that, generally, Amiga is a better computer. Although there is something more, that today I have 2x520 STE, 1x1040STFM and only one Amiga 500, which in fact is rarely used. Why? It's the WHOLE EXPERIENCE!

[trophy242]

Great... Last two comments are for Ahle2 and ZeusGB in fact. I dunno why this youtube comments messed up :-( as I put the right reply link near the proper comments.

[LOveERDos]

@Ahle2 the amiag have just more the blitter chip, the graphics horsepower of Amiga backbone, through which the CPU was raised by the increasingly difficult task of moving the bitmaps in memory. ST games were often of low quality ports, which do not benefited from the capabilities of the machine while interesting (but less graphically due to the absence of the Amiga blitter, at least until version STE).Becouse st was more an intellecutual computers mucisians and office, the few STE GAME are goo

[Umeavisby]

I'm agree.

[fusionfreq]

this game and xenon2 were my fave games.

[GalerianXD1]

Fantastical. Loved this game although I never did quite get the hang of the jousting. The Joust in my opinion was more luck than judgement.

[zeusgb]

I hated jousting, I used to get lucky a few times but never managed to win an actual tournament.

[JackReeve]

did u no u can play the originqal vers on the cinemaware website?(Cinemaware r the company that made the game)

[zeusgb]

Yeah I downloaded it ages ago.

[MartinK303]

@zeusgb while playing the jousting, my dad accidentally killed the opponents horse once! lol

[Dueville7777]

@GalerianXD1 I could never win at jousting with anyone but Wolfric the Wild, because he was the only one with a Strong rating.

[capofamiglia187]

My favourite game of all time! i bought the new version for the pc but it doesnt compare at all to the atari version- sure they are the same but the pc version does not have the same feel to it as the atari one did. Also the colours used in the new version does not look good at all. This version is the best!

[Bulododo]

This is not the the same Jim Cuomo that I thought it was, you're right I was just naive and now I'm disappointed that I started this argument.

[Bulododo]

Which had he succeeded and accomplished his quest and not been lured away by "Annie the Hat" and Helen, and now it's apparent Robin too, Jim, who was born and trained to improve our musical pedigree and in the realm of sound and it's potential to deliver a vibrant stimulant and act as a harmonious expediter have spurred with a "whoop and a holler", as Jack Trees would have growled, the emotional evolution of our feelings.

[Bulododo]

This music is not made by Jim Cuomo he plays the Russian balalaika and the clarinet.

[zeusgb]

Check the credits, his name is there under music.

[Bulododo]

Jim had shown such promise and enjoyed the privilege of involvement in the forefront of the evolution of the cultural exposition of music and in the sense that Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm, or the status quo is destined to reinvent our notion and the purpose of sound at molecular level. Elemental Dr. Watson said Dr. Crick!

[zeusgb]

It was off an Automation disk 82 but it was a Medway Boys crack. It does turn out that Robin had the crown all along.

[Jayfive276]

A Medway boys menu disk eh? I actually bought this one myself. All I remember is this was an absolute bugger to get anywhere on and the magnificent cleavages of the maidens you got to pull :P

BTW, doesnt it turn out that Robin had the crown all along or something?

[Bulododo]

I like the music

[zeusgb]

This music was by Jim Cuomo.

[Bulododo]

The Jim Coumo that I have been waiting to redeem his royal token was a talented chess player and a associate of the musician John Cage. I doubt if Professor Cage would have approved of Jim's' foray into commercial music with Elliot's Pop group "The Mormos" which was the initiator of the pause in Jim's obligation to become a forceful (William Orbit) but humorous (Spike Jones) Avant Gard Musician.

[shitfuck427]

i lik the amiga version better =)

[zeusgb]

Yeah the Amiga version did look a lot better but that was due to the Amiga having better hardware.

[shanebongos]

it doesnt look that different. doesnt sound as good though

[zeusgb]

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