C64-Longplay - Gateway To Apshai (720p)

[@philmason9653]

Wow. I haven't seen this game in 35 years, but somehow some of these sounds effects are still in my brain.

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

Still remember playing this game on the morning of my very first day of school back in 1989. My parents basically had to scare me off the computer because they knew I didn't want to go, lol.

[@RWSCOTT]

spent hours & hours in those dungeons. Wonderful game.

[@DisparityOfBeliefAndTruth]

Holy smoke! I think the last time I played this game would’ve been 1985, latest. Thanks for the awesome throwback! It was actually more fun to watch you play cuz I sucked and never made it past the 2nd dungeon.

[@jankogo]

This was a strange game, but I was drawn to it somehow. Had a cool RPG/Adventure game wibe...

[@Stripedbottom]

Me too. It was strangely enthralling, even addictive.

[@ragsnpatches]

A 1983 classic. Thanks for posting this interesting video!

[@ytony13]

Such an awesome classic! Good memories, thank you!

[@Dontbeweakvato]

I remember running out of a room with a giant and ogre and a vampire chasing you and freaking out

[@alexankd]

I have never survived a mamba attack in this game. Not once.

[@C64Television]

Mambas seemed to be a special kind of evil for some reason.

[@gregkirby9059]

i get a stun spell ready or i get it stuck in the wall

[@benrichards6087]

the vampire was just as fast, but ya getting it to stick to a wall was so much better than using up a stone or paralyze spell

[@mephesh]

Mamba was the worst

[@thefusilier1000]

Never had this one, but I remember playing Temple of Apshai Trilogy. I miss that one.

[@VulpeRenard]

Had that too. Had to play it later in life to appreciate how much work went into it. Every single room had a detailed description in the manual. I think I might still have the giant keybind guide that came with it.

[@Taneuma_563]

I had this on the C64 Plug-in-play I owned as a kid. It honestly was my favorite game out of all the games that were on the plug in play.

[@NeurospicyBitch88]

I had that same plug n play. I was more fond of Eliminator and Tower Toppler

[@fizixx]

Up until today I thought the game was called "Temple of Asphai". I had this game and played the hell out of it a very long time ago. One of my favorite games. If they made this for the PC I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Great video.

[@lordraydens]

this is a prequel to temple

[@mephesh]

I thought it was Temple of Apshai as well, took me ages to find this, its Gateway to Apshai, best game on the 64 at the time

[@Raz.C]

"You have a destiny to fulfil!" the unseen voice whispered from the darkness... Back in primary school, for show and tell, I brought the Gateway To Apshai leaflet (what passed for a manual back then) to class. My intention was to read the introductory story to the class, as it was quite an engrossing tale for young'uns like us. The teacher, however, objected after inspecting it and decided that it wouldn't be appropriate to read the story, because it was printed on the same page as other writing that identified it as being part of a computer game. Of course, this was back in Feb. '84, so maybe she didn't understand that an introductory story could be enjoyed, regardless of whether you'd played the accompanying game or not.

[@Stripedbottom]

Or maybe she was firmly of the opinion that satanic practices such as computer games will not be presented in a positive way, not on her watch.

[@exidy-yt]

Haha, sounds like me, for grade 3 I did a 'creative writing' excercise that was pretty much just the manual introduction to the Apple II game "Beneath the Pyramids". I was smart enough to to say it came from a computer game and got an A for it. LOL.

[@stevejohnson1577]

Holy smokes… i used to play this for hours… the mamba snake always got me

[@planes3333]

temple of apshi was fun too. I think my faves were gateway to aphshi, gauntlet, bop and rumble, spy hunter, gi joe, man my imagination made those games so good, it was such a new dream, I love computers

[@Elandiah]

My first RPG game on computer ;-). It was one of my favorite games on Commodore 64. But then comes PC with Diablo, Might and Magic and Baldur´s Gate...

[@Calidann17]

Great old game

[@Jetset906]

Simplistic yet engaging.

[@fordprefect80]

This was one of my favorite games on the c64 as it's a great little action adventure rpg. No doubt the dev was a fan of Rogue as it looks like it took some inspiration from it.

[@illiamdeebe7579]

I still love that yelping sound some of the creatures make when you hit them. Great sound design.

[@gregkirby9059]

trick to this game is get the creatures etc stuck on walls or items. Also fight through walls.

[@mr.peoples901]

I played this as a child and remember it fondly. It could use some story. But the gameplay is pretty awesome.

[@GmanMilli]

A very early Diablo game! Only melee class though?

[@Mottenfresser]

Jaaa...Damals stundenlang gespielt. Top, Danke fürs hochladen.

[@Blyndtyger76]

That goblin thingy

[@mephesh]

Goblin was crazy but easy to kill just press attack without moving

[@txmetalhead82xk]

I want to play this game this weekend!

[@Blyndtyger76]

OMG loved this one.

[@mephesh]

The dagger and sword can only hit low monsters, rats etc. If you hit sometinng 10 times and its not dead its not hitting. Poison needle slowly kills you so us a healing item asap. Locate trap everywehere. Ignore the coffers, they are just score. Collect Helm, breast plate, bow, arrows, magic arrows, 2-h sword. Got to level 8 but I cant kill the dragon, used all my magic arrows on him, used 2-h sword 10 hits, did nothing. How do I fnish the game? Killed a vampire with 2-h sword.

[@sunekoo]

Great game. Obviously looks very simple now but it had gameplay in spades. The simple inclusion of a timer top right added a ton of tension and urgency to the adventure. Cover art for this Epyx game was wonderful too. A different time to be sure!

[@benrichards6087]

why was everyone so concerned with the timer? I mean nothing happens when it runs out, plus you cant thoroughly explore each lvl if you skipped to the next lvl before it ran out. To me skipping to the next lvl before every room and door was opened was like cheating

[@andreasmartin7942]

Had this as a... schoolyard version (ahem). Always wondered what the game was about. It seemed to go on and on and on....

[@johnlancaster563]

i remember this game

[@LTDANMAN44]

THIS GAME LOOKS FUN

[@planes3333]

I loved the characters and fantasy and sounds. It was epic, (the dark souls of its day)

[@downtownclown679]

played this on Atari 800XL

[@planes3333]

The character walking looks like he slipped a disc and never got it fixed properly and has to walk with a lurch and bad posture.

[@skeggjoldgunnr3167]

I was playing Rogue64 just the other day...

[@Alianger]

How are stat gains determined?

[@benrichards6087]

at the end of each lvl, depending on how much you explored/fought i found

[@becomeanolive1637]

Excellent Game, not sure how the Cross, Wand or Keys help you?

[@todd7416ify]

I don't remember what the wand does but the cross is good against vampires and the keys are very useful in opening locked doors.

[@ryancarr5667]

The wand helps you spellcast

[@ryancarr5667]

That game was good

[@mephesh]

Max stats is 10 strength, 10 aglility, 10 luck. Speed run each level to get +1 all three stats. Amulets give +1 stat. Best sword is 2-h, the magic sword seems to be cursed, one of your stats will drop to 0. Magic amor, magic helm, plate and gaunlets seem to be max equipment. Cross gets consumed, so does wand, use them on the vampire and wizard maybe? The game keeps looping on level 8. Was hoping for an ending.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Are the levels randomly generated each game or are they the same each time?

[@Elandiah]

Same each time (it is reason why he have prepared stun and paralyze spells for that Mamba snakes)

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@Elandiah Ah, I know a lot of those early dungeon exploration type games had a lot of randomness in them to make them more interesting when being replayed, etc. Never quite knew how to properly pronounce "apshai" though! Is it "App shy"?

[@Elandiah]

@@JustWasted3HoursHere It's been a lot of years since I've played it, but I have the impression that in the beginning you choose different "dungeons" and there are 16 of them (and to master all 8 levels in all dungeons must be pretty hell). I always only played the first dungeon, because it was still crazy hard, even though you knew what was coming. I just tried sometimes the others, but I normally played the one I knew, because otherwise you died quite often. Today it must be incredible to everyone, but there was simply no "SAVE" and "LOAD" on Commodore and when the avatar died, he just died and the player had to play again whole game ;-).

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@Elandiah Yep, hard to believe that the authors of many of those old games didn't think to allow you to save your progress! Seems so obvious now, but I guess they wanted it to be sufficiently difficult to play.

[@Elandiah]

@@JustWasted3HoursHere on the other hand, to finish any game was big achievement itself. Now everybody can finish any game without problems...

[@Blyndtyger76]

Or the noise when something was poison.

[@ryancarr5667]

First time I played was in 1986 last time was 89 or 90

[@adammorris9429]

Compare this to The Tower of Doom on the Intellivision system

[@Atombender]

Very early action adventure that predates LoZ by over 3 years.

[@z1ph0n3]

I have just got the original cartridge of this silly game :D

[@adilkhojah]

I PLAY THIS GAME ON 80

[@mephesh]

First dark souls