Temple of Apshai - C64 - Best Dungeon Games (Epyx 1983)

[@doteaters]

If you dungeon dwelling peeps have a minute between slayings, give my blooper reel from my Epyx Games series gameplay some lovin', it needs it! *pathetic pleas*: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqTbnKahi5mnm6M And once that's out of the way, you can explore my playlist on classic C64 games: kzbin.info/aero/PL29Nw7At9Gp30kGeqN4qfrHGb9mpIhAIx

[@lupuscorvidae]

Loved this as a kid. Watching this was like stepping into a time machine. I can still see our old house and furniture. Wow.

[@SinthiaVicious]

I spent a large chunk of my childhood flipping back and forth between the tv and C64 Temple of Apshai on the black and white portable television that was the best my parents would allow me to use for gaming after Pong burnt a line in our main living room TV screen.

[@tertia0011]

In 1983 my first computer game I bought with a C64 computer with 64K RAM & external cassette drive. No monitor as I connected C64 to portable colour television set. D&D for computer.

[@doteaters]

I'm sure it was the first exposure to RPG gaming for a lot of people... apropos because the developers of the game, Jon Freeman and James Connelly of Automated Simulations, came out of the D&D crowd.

[@mudkow5092]

I remember the background sounds and effects from when I was a kid... creepy at night. Great game!

[@johns.7609]

technically my first RPG. thanks for posting this. good memories. loved hearing the sound again.

[@SinthiaVicious]

Me too!

[@viperrcr]

One of my most favorite games of all-time! My gosh the hours I would log playing this game as well as Telengard and Sword of Fargoal!

[@Butterb0ne]

Gotta find a video that shows the casting of lightning bolt. I loved how the screen flashed and the ridiculous damage it did to dragons

[@twoscoops2]

Thanks for posting, brought back fond memories. I had forgotten how slow the movement (walking) was. The sound when a monster appears totally forgot about it until watching this.

[@andoru]

Wow, haven't seen or played this for 24 years, and all the sound effects and ambient sounds are as familiar as if I played it yesterday. There was a booklet that came with the game, you read the descriptions of the rooms based on the displayed room numbers in-game.

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

I played this game so damn much back in the day. This game and "Crash, Crumble, Chomp" were the first two games that I owned on the C64.

[@doteaters]

It's a great game.... if you can get past the grating atonal "music" in the set-up part.

[@hatednyc]

Thou art frugal!!! My favorite line..

[@hagerocker]

Thank you for the upload. This brings back memories !

[@doteaters]

My pleasure! I have a complete history of computer game maker Epyx on my website, if you're interested in a read about this great, creative game maker: thedoteaters.com/?bitstory=computer/epyx

[@Paul19807]

I used to love the dark background, eerie sound effects, and especially that low series of creepy tones that would play as background music, as you walked through the dungeon. The creepiness factor of those things is what I remember more than anything.

[@Paul-os1fr]

Wow - 14 years later I randomly seek out this video again and come across this ancient comment. This comment is almost as far from the present as it was from the Temple of Apshai days (well, getting there anyway). I almost certainly wrote that from a hotel room, on my work laptop which had the Telengard and Tunnels of Doom remakes on it, after likely eating dinner with my co-worker who unbeknownst to any of us would pass away in 2016 at age 39. 2 of my grandparents were still alive, I still had a decent career to speak of, I hadn't met my wife yet, and I had no clue whatsoever that I'd be where I am right now. We're at the point where KZbin has been around for ever and we can reminisce about old comments that we don't remember making and the circumstances in which we wrote them. Makes you think. My opinion on the atmosphere of Temple of Apshai has not changed at all, however.

[@johnneill9740]

@@Paul-os1fr Yes it goes to show you don't need super hardware, just a well thought out plan well executed in simplicity, this was my favourite game on the C64 and I still enjoy it today :)

[@toddwerther188]

@@Paul-os1fr Telengard wow! I had completely forgot about that game. When the creatures spawn I will never forget that sound especially when you're trying to make your way back out without dying.

[@Diskoboy1974]

I would literally spend entire weekends playing this back when I was a kid. I probably have a few of my game save discs still in my attic. They really should update this series for modern PC's/consoles.

[@uzi9millimetuh]

Yeah the music and ambient noises were pretty creepy. Love it. So much atmosphere.

[@tjswoboda4252]

In room #3 (the second one you go into) there's a secret door on the long wall on the right. I'm old.

[@n5sdm]

The fact you remember "a secret door!" . I am going to load my copy up tomorrow! Bring back some memories.

[@pinkpugginz]

I love seeing old comments and people still interacting 😢

[@CGChris-]

Why aren't current RPGs this interesting during character creation?! Haggling on the price of your initial equipment is so innovative and makes the startup process so much more engaging and interesting! Even the sound tones on games during this time were so much more atmospheric than the dry and repetitive character selection/creation of RPGs in the last 10-15 yrs. The same passion and dedication that got the astronauts to the moon and back on a computer with 14k is the same passion and innovation that made RPGs so great during their first 10 years in existence.

[@GreenLantern481]

ok boomer

[@greenman8]

Baldur's Gate 3 and Solasta on a PC. Both are actual Dungeon's and Dragon's games created by different studios. I own both, but am only playing Balder's Gate right now. Both are Early access games. Their are other games Like, Diablo and Wolcen that are similar (but not as much a D&D format)

[@hesmeisay]

i would kill people if every rpg was this fucking slow. Sfx DOES slap though

[@mariowario5945]

Because they arent rpgs, just mindless twitchy arcade action games

[@vinmangob8555]

dam this brings back memories that I forgot lol. those sounds, wow.

[@seaningram4434]

YO, THIS WAS MY GAME!! :) Hell Yeah! :)

[@timhaskett1733]

Sound effects were amazing

[@hatednyc]

Fuck yeah!!! Thank you SO MUCH for uploading!!! I've regretted selling my Commodore 64 and all the games so much - this makes it a little better!!

[@new2pitt26]

I remember the 'ghoul' freaked me out. I always questioned how much effect the character stats and experience really had on game play.

[@tenzinalexander8832]

Haha, I remember this game. I thought the sound effects were cool for its time.

[@veng3r663]

Wow this one REALLY brings back some old memories. Welp time FOR some Sword of Fargoal then... :D

[@jubsy]

incredible sound

[@n5sdm]

Ohbthe sounds bring back memories

[@cowpercoles1194]

Wow, Diablo 2 Resurrected could sure use a graphics overhaul...

[@Tailstraw_xD]

Shots fired

[@Warsign01]

Goosebumps!

[@doteaters]

Yeah, watching this video can really take you back to a time when you first got obsessed with an immersive computer RPG.

[@0megadwarf]

pure dungeon synth

[@NintenFan0900]

Hey thanks for the extra background story on it. At first I thought it was a gaming console like the NES.

[@leftymason9436]

I gave you a like just for the UmmaGumma.

[@doteaters]

thanks, fellow Floyd fan.

[@greenman8]

Currently, I have been Loving 'Baldur's Gate 3', ever since Early Access (2020?) let out. I remember 'Temple of Apshai' making me excited to see a D&D like game, played on my C-64. (Also I had the game on Cassette, took all day to load! I wonder what a modern treatment of Temple of Apshai would be like? (I'm thinking something like Diablo 2)

[@fallspeed]

I had this on my TRS-80 (16k of memory, no hard drive, just an audio cassette deck to load the program with). It was my first RPG game and it was great fun.

[@SinthiaVicious]

C64 with a 5.25 floppy drive. Luxury eh?

[@SinthiaVicious]

Did you measure load time in hours or years?

[@fallspeed]

@@SinthiaVicious It only took a few minutes to load in each section of the game. You could save your game on the tape too. It still amazes me how well it worked.

[@doteaters]

Yes, it definitely was a fun, if punishing, entry into the world of dungeon crawlers.

[@Opry99er]

Ummagumma... you're a man after my own heart. =)

[@retropixel1272]

Strong Bad: I'm gonna play some Temple of Apshai, forget you guys.

[@MidnightWonko]

I was very young at the time, but I think I remember my cousin playing this.

[@danbarn72]

Wow! This brings back memories!

[@brixt0n]

Still have the boxed original Temple of Apshai. I love the sound effects, for instance when a baddie appears. It still scares me today!

[@rohdavo8547]

If I could play this now I would. Scared the pants off me as a kid.

[@doteaters]

It was always a tense time waiting to see if a monster would appear!

[@doteaters]

My pleasure.

[@doteaters]

While I'm here, I'll mention that I've been playing Dungeons of the Endless on Steam during a free play weekend, and it reminds me of a hopped up version of this game, with a nifty tower defence element added in with the dungeon crawling.

[@orion1052003]

How do you get past the "do you have the data file" part when using the MESS emulator? What disk is the data file and where do you put it? What folder?

[@Elricwulf]

Never before and never again in the history of CRGs did a mosquito encounter seem so terrifying! :)

[@grimmgnarly]

You need to revist this game and read the descriptions from each room in the manual. It’s only 1/2 the game without it...

[@davidpeterson7605]

Loved this game, i was 13.

[@orion1052003]

How do you get past the "Do you have the datafile" part? When running the Mess emulator, you are already running a disk. What disk is the datafile? Where does it go? What folder?

[@JHaySWFL]

The music in this game freaked me out as a kid.

[@KCJazzKeys]

I don't think I ever played this game and stayed alive for more than 10 minutes when I played it on my Atari 800. I still have my "Gateway To Apshai" cartridge I play on occasion, but it was more of an arcade game.

[@GameHopping]

I remember the wraith. I think it was on level 3. It was hard.

[@NintenFan0900]

Is the commadore 64 a console? or a gaming PC (stupid question) I only head of the C64 recently.

[@moebius435]

Dunjonquest: Temple of Apshai was sold as both cassettes and diskettes in the USA. It was written in BASIC. It looks like this: www.mobygames.com/game/c64/dunjonquest-temple-of-apshai/screenshots/gameShotId,254441/ Temple of Apshai Trilogy was sold only on diskettes in the USA. It looks like this: www.mobygames.com/game/c64/temple-of-apshai-trilogy/screenshots/gameShotId,575190/ They are both great games and very worth playing, but the old school aesthetic of the original Dunjonquest games has a special appeal to me.

[@frigginjoe]

I have this on Colecovision and played it a bit. C64 sounds are awesome though. I think I also have it on my plug n play C64 controller game system

[@7thangelad586]

This game! Wow! I think it’s the one where you’re searching for the Glyphstone..?

[@Paul19807]

I think it gave you an option to enter stats at the beginning. However it was done, you did have that option. I remember taking characters who weren't my front line people in other games, deleting them there, and entering them into the temple... technically it wasn't cheating, right?

[@GforceProdComp]

Wow. This was so slow compared to Gateway to Apshai. I think I liked it back when it was a new game, but it would drive me nuts now.

[@BlaineC1972]

The music is great.

[@atrax70]

The music is almost exactly like Ripper! for the C64 that Avalon Hill put out.

[@boris2342]

game was written in basic you could hit break, type hp=99 cont. and get 99 healing potions

I must have had a different version as I don't remember the guy looking like a purple E.T. wearing a toga.

[@doteaters]

Henchman Twenty1 I did this video a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure this is the version from The Temple of Apshai Trilogy, which was a remake of the game Epyx did with improved graphics, believe it or not.

[@halwakka504]

I remember playing a game called Quest for Gold on the Atari 130xe, which was a shitty clone of Temple of Apshai. Never had a chance to play this one. :(

[@doteaters]

It is also, I believe, still the biggest selling single computer line ever. Around 22 million or so.

[@AureliusR]

It has been surpassed by the Raspberry Pi now!

[@johngibson2884]

Was this the game that had a cursed farm with vampire chickens?

[@GameHopping]

Is this the next gen engine for the next Elder Scrolls game? :o Beware the wraith.

[@Chris-wq3pe]

i played the hell out of this game, but hell i don't remember it being this slow. is this one of those time bending, alternate history moments that i read about ? hmmmm

[@adisharr]

If it was a RPG, you can bet it had a redefined character set.

[@Nighthawke70]

And this was all coded in BASIC.

[@GameHopping]

I remember loading this from a cassette tape. :)

[@doteaters]

GameHopping A great way to learn patience.

[@ffmax55]

La série Donjonquest

[@jdmresearch]

Ummagumma? Pink Floyd there.

[@cokiemix]

I remember the Antmen, nasty.

[@pj3679]

OH,,,I did not recognize this, and then I just remembered it was Gateway to Apshai that I was thinking of,,,,,,,Nevermind,,,,, :) by the way,,, I have the Umma gumma album on vinyl. :)

[@pj3679]

Same here,, I didnt recognize it either, I was thinking of Gateway too.

[@guyrocketram9698]

homestar runner anyone?

[@Laladeduh]

More RPG elements than most "RPGs" now. Compare the character creation process in player choice. (not hardware capabilities.)

[@patsk8872]

Wow, this was the music on the C64? A800 blew this out of the water musically, what were Epyx thinking with this one?

[@gornavid123]

run faster ò.Ó