C64 Longplay - Defender Of The Crown

[@stackhat8624]

Just realised there's 2 versions of the c64 Defender of the Crown out there. The version I played as a kid on my C64 was a pirated version that took 2 sides of a floppy. You had to turn the disk over after you had selected your character and spoken to Robin and about to start the game. Also, if you won the jousting tournament the victory shot of you sitting on your horse was corrupted and all you saw was a corrupted shot of 11:14. This version is out there to download and use in your emulator. The version this video is from is a single file version of Defender of the Crown. No need to turn or swap the floppy files. Also, if you win the jousting tournament you get the uncorrupted shot at 12:58. You can get this version from gamebase64. Also, this version is much easier than the two sided version. Once you buy a catapult you almost immediately get the quest to rescue a fellow Saxon lord's daughter and marry her and get that Saxon lord's castle and lands and 20 soldiers. In the two sided version of the game you don't automatically get the quest to rescue a fellow Saxon lord's daughter after buying a catapult. Sometimes I had to wait 6 plus turns and sometimes I was never offered it after buying a catapult. Plus the single-sided version loads much quicker. Also, you can tell the difference by the splash screen that loads at the start that tells you who cracked the game. Single sided is Nostalgia and then loads into a cheat/trainer options. The two sided version is done by very well known Eagle Soft (has the pic of an eagle with a floppy disk in its beak)

[@suucat]

The graphics and music of this game are something to behold even today. I love this game.

[@AchtungBaby77]

I'd argue this game somehow transcends what the C64 is capable of. The visuals and music all just combine beautifully to create an awe-inspiring experience which is surreal. I love it 💪

[@MarkxUK1]

This was probably the pinnacle in C64 games if you had a disk drive. It really showed off and utilised the hardware. Like other people have commented, the sound and music are really good and show the C64's superiority over the Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. The graphics are also a landmark for an 8 bit game making great use of the C64's palette.

[@DCHurlford1]

Me and my big brother had this on disk for the C64 back in '87. I remember being in awe of the graphics at the time. We had an expert cartridge thingy as well which allowed you to copy 3 games onto one disk. Unfortunately it wasn't to last as the disk drive packed in after about 6 months, then it was back to tape loading, lol. Fond memories of reading ZZAP!64 magazine. The golden age of gaming.

[@z3my4l]

I had this on cassette. In time I learned the correct tape positions to make loading faster.

[@heathenhammer2344]

Pinnacle of shit

[@nickjerrat]

@@DCHurlford1 how good was the zzap magazine!

[@DCHurlford1]

@@nickjerrat It was an iconic magazine back in the day. Ollie Frey's classic cover artwork every month and inside was packed with great stuff. I actually didnt start buying it until issue 22 (Februrary 1987) as i got my own C64 for my Xmas '86 when i was 12. Although id played on my mates one long before then.

[@exoticworldreview2755]

I used to play this for HOURS!! Thanks for taking me back to my childhood

[@AchtungBaby77]

This is C64 Perfection - jaw-dropping graphics and superb music. Timeless.

[@veng3r663]

Afterwards a holdout remaining militant faction still loyal to Roger Falconbridge from the hitherto forgotten far southeastern area staged a successful assassination strike on Geoffrey Longsword a few nights after his royal coronation... X_X

[@patsfan4life]

I keep coming back to it after all these years

[@heathenhammer2344]

Not quite

[@espenhaga2375]

I truly loved this game back in the day

[@dennisdistant]

The window scene with the maid and the hero was something to look forward too. Especially the way the hold their arms wink wink nudge nudge.

[@Enfors]

This game really did justice to the "Interactive movie" tagline that Cinemaware gave it. That's a truly impressive feat for a Commodore 64 game.

[@Riesicoo]

I played this game long time ago, enjoyed this!

[@juiceter3981]

This was a better game on the c64 than it was on the amiga. I could never get the jousting right.

[@AdamGoldPro]

damn that was great times.. my alltime favorite c64 game! Had to play it again on my Mobil via Frodo ; )

[@JeeJeeBeats]

When i was 8 or 9 years old in 85 i absolutely and still LOVED++++++ the music of this game. The intro is the bomb. the castle attack is legendary and the music when u save the pretty princess is classic.

[@hurmur9528]

Wow, happy I had an Amiga during that time. That defender of the crown was beautiful.

[@34arse]

30 years ago when I used to play this, I though Katherine was hot, I wonder what she looks like now?

[@srichard7291]

+richard .caine lol same here

[@patsfan4life]

richard .caine designer said her face was mirrored after Kim Delaney of NYPD Blue fame....

[@srichard7291]

Jim Rowell Interesting

[@patsfan4life]

so if she looks anything like the woman she was modeled after ( Kim Delaney ), then she still looks real good lol

[@reallivebluescat]

Since it was 1199 id think she looks like a skeleton

[@RobberStormfire]

Wow, me and two of my best friends would play this game all the time back in the day. This really took me back.

[@jefo2405]

Goes to show that many old games had a much more varied game concept than 99.9% of modern games!

[@silentwitness536]

playability > graphics.

[@einrealist656]

Tja schade das hier nur auf englisch geantwortet wird :( Das waren definitv die geilsten Zeiten und ich will sie wieder haben. Vielen Dank für die genialen Erinnerungsvideos.

[@Tommygy1]

Antwort auf Deutsch: 80er halt. Alles war besser in den 80ern.😉

[@einrealist656]

@@Tommygy1 Danke Dir früher war wirklich alles besser und das stimmt!

[@BlokeOzzie]

Ah, I remember this one well. Was always a good way to while away an afternoon.

[@boredwithusernames]

Now THIS game brings back a whole host of good memories from back in the day. A good friend of mine absolutely NAILED the lance battles... down, down, left, left, FIREBUTTON... every time. Good days they were and the music just sets the atmosphere perfectly. Great gameplay here... ;)

[@britknighuk]

I loved playing this, almost forgot about it until I saw your post. Classic music to go with it if I recall correctly. Thank goodness it was on disk and not tape!

[@boredwithusernames]

too true... tape would have been an absolute nightmare...

[@JonasRosenven]

Tim Snook I had it on tape. 2 casettes. You would do more loading than playing :(

[@BalczoLev]

The glorious Defender of the Crown c64 soundtrack!!

[@adamkepinski]

Ah, after all those years I've completed this game! Ok, that was not me, but finally I found out how it should be played :-)

[@TorPedoCXC]

Copyright 1986. 30 years ago... And today I still play it from time to time via emulator on a PC about 4,000 times faster and having about 500,000 times more RAM than my C64.

[@marcogoffredo1949]

Yesterday of 30 Gear Xbox and Amiga, Dee Jay Z Battle.💬💬💬💬💋💪💪👂👃❄️

[@ravenhill_the_crusader_1968]

loved this game back in 1986.

[@ravenhill_the_crusader_1968]

loved this game, old games destroy anything modern.

[@festushaggen2563]

I had this game when I was a kid but had no idea how to play it. I was beaten quickly on the map and could never fight my way through to save the lady. Completely forgot about this though. It’s been a long time since then and was fun to see it again.

[@VinzentDk]

I had this on the NES. Amazing game.

[@MarkxUK1]

Never realised the C64 disk version had the screen at 13:00 :) Like the way it's used when you win the joust instead of at the beginning in the Amiga version.

[@TheCodedtestament]

This game is just brilliant. The graphics are amazing, and the music is superb. And it lasts for ever... I say the C64 version is far superior to the Amiga counterpart.

[@buniakragames2805]

+TheCodedtestament Yes, it lasts forever. It's just a nice feeling to play it. We don't always need astounding graphics like in metal gear solid 5 etc. to have fun with a game. Good old commodore has its own charme.

[@patsfan4life]

Sound was absolutely astounding

[@acrovader]

I strongly disagree. The graphics were better for the Amiga. But I still hated the game and rarely played it.

[@rbrtck]

+acrovader The gameplay and music are better on the C64 (as usual), though. The graphics are better on the Amiga (also as usual), but I don't find the game playable, while on the C64 I think it is. Additionally, as we see in this video the fair Saxon maidens...um...undress on the C64 version. ;) No big deal, of course, but it was kind of a notable, if visually underwhelming in its 8-bit glory, part of the game at the time. I guess this was considered too racy with the Amiga's improved graphics.

[@AdurianJ]

The Amiga version was rushed thats why its gameplay is terrible

[@GrumpyScamp]

I really liked this game and played it to death. I got rather good at it too, I remember. Nowadays I play Crusader Kings II, so I guess I'm still at it in a way. Lovely memories.

[@jabuci]

This game still looks gorgeous. Amazing.

[@193819441974]

Ah, it was the first game exploring the capacities of the Amiga. A very good C64 version, helped by the atractivity of the music. Joust was impressive, and the attack of the castles with catapults. There is a pc version in 2001/2002, which is nice too, and a PC game which is similar as this game: Lords of the realms

[@revgenx3312]

He didn't even bother taking her out of the enemy castle, he just nailed her right there in his enemy's bed.

[@Pulstreiber]

Well, time is money

[@veng3r663]

Well TO the victor goes the 'spoils'... ;)

[@juiceter3981]

Lord flasheart!

[@lightronv]

@@juiceter3981 She's got a tongue like an electric eel, and she loves the taste of a man's tonsils!

[@Lofote]

Only in your dreams :-D The night actually happened weeks after he rescued her. Read again at 08:52 ;)

[@alkohallick2901]

I miss this game!

[@captainobvious9233]

One of my all time favorite games. I never once won at the jousting tournament though.

[@mooseman721]

Cheers mate, scratched that itch for me

[@avatar6699]

One of the greatest games ever made for the C64. Based, loosely, on the tales of Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe and his attempts to bring King Richard back to England after his capture and imprisonment by Leopold of Austria. Can you fill the shoes of Robert Taylor and save, but never marry, Elizabeth Taylor. Or perhaps rescue and be wed to Joan Fontaine??? :)

[@dafimperator]

This was my second disc game (first was Pirates). Back then, I felt as if I was opening a gate to another world after being one year on tape only

[@heikoknaup6838]

Love your Videos, even after all those years

[@Rheinmetall1]

You won like four times in a row in jousting! I think maybe I have won once in my life in this game, maybe twice. Not to mention that I have never rescued the princess.

[@AdurianJ]

Rheinmetall when you learn where to aim it gets much easier

[@Markboyy1984]

It's easier than u think, once u get the hang of it that is.

[@Markboyy1984]

Rescue the princess and u will get laid lol

[@AudieHolland]

Whenever I play Geoffrey, I don't do jousts for land, just use my swordfighting skill to raid enemy strongholds. The thing is to keep at least one Saxon lord alive and soon he will offer the hand of his ward if you rescue her from the Normans.

[@TaranAlvein]

9:38 - You raised a different sort of sword that night! Also, I'm surprised by how "mature" that scene got. Older video games got a way with a lot, huh?

[@Lofote]

Not much more than in any hollywood film ;)

[@TaranAlvein]

@@Lofote Yes, but I would argue that games were primarily thought of as kids' stuff until fairly recently, while movies were more of an all-ages kind of thing. You might expect a little skin in a movie. I would have thought it would be a little more scandalous if a game did it.

[@davisx2002]

when i was in 9th grade we played this game for days on end...we thought it was the shit

[@rikk319]

It was the shit!

[@veng3r663]

Oh Heck yeah, I am SO watching Braveheart again after this..! :D

[@Seadweller451D]

davisx2002 - Mein Durchfall fließt wie ein Fluss.

[@ThereIsNoLord]

9:20 I would died to have this as a teen.

[@WarpBerlin]

medium mode: don't visit the sherwood forest hard mode: don't kill any normans, but keep them in their castle while controlling the map expert mode: don't kill any normans, keep all saxons alive (this also means, you must turn down any rescue attempt) Good luck :)

[@Reeseim384]

It was my favourite game. I hated the many waiting to download from tape casette for every movement in the game history..

[@chargen7224]

I realized that I had Friends that I never knew I had, this moment was amazing, I will never ever forget ! 2:00

[@DrSchweitzer]

My favorited game on the C64. Played it for years but never reached the end.

[@lokuzzz]

the one and only! : )

[@Murrangurk2]

Oh dear sweet nostaligia! Good ol'Defender of the Crown! We used to hack the code on this game so instead of saying "Please flip disc over" we made it say "Please fuck disc over" Ahhhh how we laughed and laughed... Funny thing was it was on floppy disc so we never actually flipped it. We just put in disc 2. Sorry, I should say we just shit bum disc 2. HAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!! Oh yeah. Still got it...

[@haytionette]

i also remember a cheat to press k while loading and then you would get 1000 knights, though it only worked on the c64 one and not on the amiga

[@Del-Canada]

So many hours spent playing this. If I could go back to any time, it would be to the first day I loaded this.

[@goeuldi]

8:38 Turn on the $11 !!

[@ss188818]

Der Sound alleine!!!!

[@Lofote]

Wozu? Einfach jetzt spielen :)

[@nichderjeniche]

@@Lofote Leider nicht mehr dasselbe. 1. Keine Original Hardware da, die rum muckt. 2. Keine Freunde mehr da die mitspielen. 3. Man hat andere Geräte rum stehen die mehr können, das versaut auch das Feeling. Kurz um, die guten Zeiten sind vorbei :(

[@Lofote]

Why did you attack your friend at 18:09? It is not necessary to finish the game.

[@worldofretrogameplay6963]

It’s amazing how Cinemaware maintained the graphic quality of the Amiga games in their C64 ports. Sure, the Amiga did look and sound better, but what Cinemaware achieved on the 8-bit C64 was groundbreaking for its time.

[@rbrtck]

I think the C64 version sounds better, personally. This is not an unusual opinion, actually, for this and some other games.

[@nichderjeniche]

@@rbrtck Gianna Sisters comes to mind

[@ThePerfectRed]

There was this bug that when you had a single opponent left, you could stab his horse in a joust and you would loose all your territories. However, the bot would then just focus on conquering these empty territories and you could move to his home castle and win.

[@2K8Si]

I played both, and I actually prefer this music soundtrack to the Amiga version. (All of it)

[@AudieHolland]

Gameplay was also much better on the Commodore 64.

[@DerSchmu]

Von Bards Tale gibt es einen kommentierten Zusammenschnitt auf meinem Kanal. Und wenn nicht schief geht wird Ultima auch noch kommen :)

[@Naturefreund]

Wow I remember that game on my old Nokia 5100 I was addicted

[@Achloryn]

God you make this game look so easy. Was it this easy? I mean i remember beating it when i was a young kid, so i guess it couldn't have been terribly hard. But damn, like... you absolutely stomped them all lol.

[@Femaiden]

i had this on NES. . and at the end, i used to sit there collecting money and then buy the maximum amount of guys. . i'm talking 255 soldier, 255 knights, 255 catapults. and one time, i built castles on every region and was gonna put 255 soldiers in each one, but then i decided that was gonna take too long. . when you're a kid and have only a handful of game cartridges and no internet. . .

[@gedias1]

Played this on the NES. Don't recall the dress dropping.

[@DerSchmu]

Bei den Longplays benutze ich immer massig Speicherpunkte. Dank der Emulatoren sieht man das später nicht mehr. Ich war aber früher bei recht vielen Spielen ganz gut. Neben den Longplays habe ich ja noch meine "Kraut & Rüben & Videospiele" Sendung. Da spiele und kommentiere ich direkt live und ohne Speicherpunkte.

[@NiiloPaasivirta]

What's most impressive was that this was better than the Amiga original!

[@vksasdgaming9472]

En tiedä koska en ole pelannut joten Oikea Mielipide on kyseenalainen.

[@SoulJhar]

i was 8 years old when my older sis try to ecplain me that game lol...i love it!

[@lesthegreat]

Oh the memories

[@parimabartender]

I was so bad at this game as a kid and it frustrated me so badly.

[@Seadweller451D]

Können Sie empfehlen Medikamente für Furz und Durchfall? Ich Furz wie eine große Trompete. Vollen Klang, wie ein Kaiser Furz. Mein Durchfall fließt wie ein Fluss!

[@RomanRoman-xi3dv]

Why i get sad watching old stuff?

[@mvl71]

Maybe because the magic is gone? You remember how exciting new games were, you read about them in your favourite magazines, maybe you got some new games or hardware for xmas, every computer or console was a mystery box filled with magic. Now your knowledge has expanded and you know a C64 is just a bundle of IC's, 64K isn't very much, and 16 colors can only do so much. Your phone is a 1000 times better than any 80s computer, and when a new phone or computer or console sees the light of day you know all the specs and it isn't magic anymore. No more magic, no more romance. I used to hack games on my trusty MSX2 computer to make them load faster. I was good at that. Nowadays you can download everything from the internet. My skills are completely useless and I miss the days when they mattered. I love those 80s machines and I have quite a lot of them, but it's a bittersweet love. It will never ever be the same again. Those days are over. They will not come back. Maybe that's why you feel sad.

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

7:38 Aw shit... it's on, motherfuckers. "We've come for the maiden - release her or your masculinity is forfeit - _LITERALLY_!"

[@AudieHolland]

You can win this game fairly easily if you attack the nearest Norman lord (to the far east) with the help of Robin's men. If you suck at tournament, just choose 'fame' always. If you practice, raiding enemy castles can be much more rewarding, literally. Important: if you're defending a former enemy castle, *never retreat.* It's better to fight to the last man because you'll lose your entire army anyway. So best option would be to not defend conquered castles.

[@CloneShockTrooper]

Great game indeed.

[@LordFrobozz]

I read Ivanhoe after playing this game.

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

GREAT GAME. I beat this one inside out. The key was to master the sword fighting on the raids.

[@mvl71]

Oh those were easy: 1) push joystick up (defend while advancing towards the enemy) and push the enemy all the way to the right 2) press fire (attack) and then retreat _while holding fire_ The enemy will follow you, he gets hit and you don't. Just make sure you don't go all the way left or you'll 'escape'. Just repeat the above steps (push to the right, retreat to the left while holding fire). Probably only works on the C64 version, though.

[@RelativeStrengthFit]

9:29

[@SrenHansenDK]

fantastic. thanks

[@193819441974]

I played the 2001 version, which is basic compared to the games of 2001, but there is the wind of adventure, except the fact that I was for the normans, of course ^^

[@alterfalter6154]

Ich habe Das spiel geliebt ❤❤

[@doomkarloff]

besteht denn auch die chance mal nen längeres lets play a la bards tale oder ultima zu sehen - pitte pitte

[@smokymcpot1779]

on the C64 it was really hard, the st and amiga version shined with graphics, but it didn't look that bad on the c64...

[@TokyoJoe703]

Christ, kids of today are so lucky. We had this shite to pass the time away

[@ChrisMuenster]

its amazing

[@pj3679]

I have both versions, and this is indeed the better version, the Amiga version cheated, and did not have all the ammo options when laying seige to a castle. There was no posion to lob at the castle. The amiga version cheated by throwing in 250 knights sometimes, total cheat, I cry BS and turn it off. :) great fun on the C-64.

[@googleistdoof6656]

I'd like to see one video where the player is actually good at the game. Painful, all of them.

[@nichderjeniche]

Unfortunately I never had this game for C64. I would have failed in this game anyway, due my lack of english knowledge at my younger years...

[@SZU_airsoft]

Lol, my C64 version was sightly different. All enemy castles had a starting 200 soldiers garrison but my. So my only chance to win was the marriage, because I could get my father-in-law's 200 men too. Sometimes I had to attack the target castle more than 2x in a row and just throw diseaster and greek fires to them and let Robin's army die before my charge and I just retreat with minor losses and repeat until the enemy defenders would be reduced under 100... This play is very easy compared with my very hard version.

[@MarkAlanKing]

played this game on a Commodore PC 10

[@harrycolon5301]

Memories

[@Emrico35]

C64 version was good as Amiga500 version. Even some parts (like battle) were better.

[@simonscott1121]

I could never figure out the jousting :D

[@simonfrederiksen104]

Good times

[@honsou1978dk]

Weird his "allies" are doing nothing...

[@the40yogamer]

ahaaaa now i have the high ground

[@Trusteft]

So much easier than the 16bit versions!

[@fordprefect4728]

The amiga version was only better for graphics but its gameplay was terrible compared to the c64.

[@patsfan4life]

And c64 had better sound

[@DrownedInExile]

"You think a crown gives you power?"

[@acrovader]

I had this game. More tedious than fun. Thankfully I didn't buy the game. I had an acquaintance that worked at Software Etc. that unloaded a lot of freebies that were given to the store that they couldn't use for the store computer since it wasn't an Amiga- so he let me have this (among other games).

[@hai.1820]

This was an easy game

[@davethomasatemyhamster]

When they kiss at 9.26 I always thought it was a bit naughty cause I could see his Willie and what a willie it was 😄😄

[@Valentina1111111111]

thank god there were the seconds 9.24 and 9.25 ... but same thoughts I had ;)

[@VTCharley13]

They didn’t call him “Longsword” for nothing! The smile on her face is testament to his strong swordplay.

[@TheDarkQueen89]

Man, do I wish I had this on the C64, had the nes version. Which is decent, but nothing beats playing on the commodore 64. :)

[@TheJimbo1791]

Correct ! :)

[@Markboyy1984]

Nes version sucks, C64 was a classic game overall