Moonstone for Amiga 500 review

Kris reviews Moonstone: a Hard Days Knight for the Amiga 500. The game was developed and published by Mindscape in 1991 and blends beat 'em up, strategy and a touch of RPG.

It was great, it was gory... and it was a lot of fun...

Oh, and 'apparently' Kris just wanted to show a gory death by being bitchslapped by ratpeople on his first encounter - it had nothing to do with his ineptitude for the game!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Amiga
• Retrosluts
• Moonstone
• Knight
• Fighting
• Dragon
• Orc
• Ratpeople

[leecozens]

Hey dude, that was an awesome vid! You took me right back to being like 9 again : )

So much so I'm considering buying another Amiga 500 on fleabay just to feel that buzz again. Btw, is the pc emulation easy to do? Or is it soooo problematic it's easier to get a 2nd hand Amiga?

Just noticed there's a dude on eBay flogging a brand new sealed version on moonstone, pc version for 70 yes 70 quid!

Cheers again

[bsg7]

@leecozens Amiga on the PC is very easy (depending on spec of PC). Look for Amiga Forever which was released by Cloanto - nice automated installer and a few different presets (A500, A1200, CD32 etc)

Can't beat the real thing though - I have an A500 (upgraded to 1mb), and A500+ (2mb), a CD32 and an A1200 with 4gb HD and 8mb ram :)

[liquid49286]

This is a lot like the board game Dark Tower. Best game ever made

[greenelf12]

The balock's or manatours as you called are bes faught if you let them come to you they will jump toward's you, you slash it move they will jump again slash move and repeat to victory, Also the ratmen you faught wern't ratmen they wee trogg's the ratmen are the little furry things. :o)

[Tapewormz]

I loved the amiga. It was a 7mhz computer. The 1200 I believe was a 14mhz. It accomplished more impressive visuals and sounds and multitastking at 7 and 14 mhz than windows pc's running at 60mhz did.

[alizta]

I'd really recommend using a joystick and if you are using winuae emulate three floppy drives, put an adf file into each of them and don't have to swap disks in emulation.

This game might not look like much but I loved it back then and I still occasionally play it.

[FWAWrestling]

No... It IS "Jag-war" and NOT "Jag-u-ar." Furthermore, its "thirty-two," not "firty-two."

[mocthezuma]

This game is fantastic. Too bad the guy playing it was so crappy. The fighting sequences are all about tactics and it's just as playable with keyboard as with joystick. All you have to do is know how to do the different attacks. Down+towards does a stabbing attack which is the most effective on the rat people. There are also lions, jumping furballs that hang you from their tails. big blue cows and more. The towns are also interesting as you can buy upgrades and gamble. Best played with 4 players

[Vebinz]

The game was hard enough wit a joy-stick, so with a keyboard it must be next to impossible.

Yeah, I remember that swamp monster bastard!

[manumores]

Nice comments:-)