Secret of the Silver Blades (Amiga Version)

[DOSBoxMom]

I recognize some of those battle sound effects -- later MS-DOS "Gold Box" games (f.ex. Pools of Darkness & Dark Queen of Krynn) incorporated them -- once they had decent sound card support. For the earlier "Gold Box" games, I remember the C64 sound was usually much better than the IBM MS-DOS version.

[kronnyqq]

Epic game...took me 8 months to beat on C64, and two of those months was waiting for a response from TSR because I got stuck and sent them a letter via snail mail, and they did mail me back! It's amazing that I can't get nearly half the enjoyment out of today's RPGs. No more AD&D after Neverwinter Nights...now you have retarded half assed RPGs like Dragon Age making a complete mockery of original AD&D. Consoles have completely ruined it for us original RPGers.

[MrShot97]

Like most games ported to the Amiga, the designers failed to take full advantage of its capabilities. Most of them only had 16 Amiga colors when it was more then capable of doing 32 and maybe even 64. How about full music? When they went to 256 colorsPools of Darkness looked horrible compared to DOS, grey pixels everywhere, no animation, fully capable. The Savage frontiers were the best of the Gold Box games on the Amiga. Whoever designed that should have designed the rest of them.

[sokolkeep]

@MrShot97

I haven't played the Savage Frontier games on Amiga but have played them on DOS. I've seen screenshots of Gateway on Amiga though. Gateway to the Savage Frontier is one of my favorite SSI games. I think the artwork in Gateway + Treasures, were excellent.

[dvdv7777]

@MrShot97 Personally, I liked the artwork of Dark Queen of Krynn on DOS VGA most. It also had an improved interface, and spent spells were automatically re-scheduled for memorization (most Goldbox games did not do that, and after a battle, you had to remember which spells you spent and have to rselect for memorization).

[dlseth2]

I played this game way too much... When the screen read "Press RETURN to continue" at the Well of Knowledge I almost pressed the enter key out of sheer habit...

[400SA]

Honestly, the Amiga versions of this don't really seem very different from the C64 to me. The C64 version was definiitely better than the PC.

[boilerplate]

You really make me wish I had an Amiga rather then a C64.

I don't know though. It's a tough call. these Amiga versions are superior, but my C64 was my baby.