I've been looking for this game for the past 30, YES 30 YEARS! I remember i played it at my friends house but for the life of me i couldn't remember the name. Thank you for this video!
DEFENDER OF THE CROWN - one of the best classic cinematic games on the Amiga ever! - Best graphics - Amazing soundtracks - Excellent gameplay - Awesome box art - Beautiful ladies 😻❤️🌹 Absolutely magnificent and inspiring 😺👍🕹️.
@@Thrashie And let's not forget... - THE LORDS OF THE RISING SUN - IT CAME FROM THE DESERT - LEISURE SUIT LARRY 1-5 - THE LOST PATROL - SENSIBLE SOCCER - SENSIBLE WORLD OF SOCCER Also, i admit, that the Commodore 64 and Amiga games even inspire me to draw my own comic fan arts - mostly the furry comic arts 😺🐰🦊.
@@ArttuTheCat Interesting.. Rising Sun never showed up on my radar and for a moment even mistakenly thought it was about Rise of the Dragon. The list of great games is too large to list, but loved almost every minute of it.
@@ArttuTheCat - I almost played Lords of the Rising Sun for the Medieval Banquet Introduction video, and had it on my list, but like Canton and so many other games, I felt it was set in the right time period but not Medieval enough to include them. I think including Chinese/Japanese games would have been a bit too much to cover for the intro video. I reviewed Rise of the Dragon quite a while ago, and last year I included Rise of the Triad in the RTG specials. Hopefully, no plans to cover Rise of the Robots.
The graphics in this game blew my tiny mind when this was first released. There’s a good segment talking about how this game was made in the movie From Bedrooms To Billions: The Amiga Story.
Yes, The Amiga Years is an excellent documentary, and I helped them by recording at least half of the games footage for it. The team recently ran a kickstarter for a sequel entitled The A500 Story, so I hope you are a backer and ready for the next instalment. :)
Real gem!!! Amiga trade-mark game!!!One of the main reasons why I requested my dad bought me(and my brother as well) Amiga 500 in September 1989. !!! Happy days !!! Great review as usual, good job man!!! Never been good at jousting unfortunately...
There is a tips and secrets special video coming up this year at some point, where I reveal how to do the jousting. It was something I could never do, and always wanted to know.
@@LemonTubeAmiga I'm looking forward to see that video and how to do the jousting!!! After 30+ years of waiting I hope I can beat opponent knight finally....
Yeah I think there's a bug in the game, but never have your campaign army at your castle if it's going to get attacked. The bug can work in your favour too: If someone attacks your home castle while your campaign army is in another territory, somehow the home army becomes the size of the campaign army, and you get to literally double your army size. Without watching the whole video, but seeing how big that enemy's campaign army is in the end, I'd say someone attacked that enemy's home castle while their army was out, and they got real big real fast.
That's a difficult one. They probably took the images from some kind of popular book or movie. It reminds me of Richard Widmark mixed with Warren Beatty.
I FINALLY figured out where the image of Geoffrey Longsword comes from. This is Warren Beatty from the 70's. Simply look at his IMDB page and you will instantly see the resemblance.
@@LemonTubeAmiga Yeah, been off/on obsessing over it for years. Just accidentally got a RUclips recommendation for an old movie and it hit like lightning :). But image wise, face is definitely his and the hair may have been simply cropped (although it does resemble his basic hair style)
You started at the perfect castle. From there, build your campaign army by 1 soldier, send him into the territory to the southeast, then take the two to your west (with 1 soldier each time). You'll bring all of the civilians in those territories into your army, and also get the income. From there you'll have a much bigger army to go taking the other territories.
Why you never asked Robin for help ? He provides you with soldiers and knights. You can do this twice per playthrough....also, the saxon kings will never lay siege to your castle, so you are save from them, so go for the normans first...
Thanks for commenting. I was going to ask Robin but the location on the map was quickly taken over by the enemy so I didn't get much chance. I didn't know the home castle was safe. This isn't the case with any other game of this type, so had me fooled.
I destroyed so many mice buttons by slamming it has hard and as fast as I could during raids, that my father finally banned me form playing on it his A1000.
Thats a good story. Of course pressing hard does not mean much in this game. Pressing fast and backing away seems to work on the steps, but perhaps best to turn the mouse on its side, and press the button ultra quick, like trembling rather than hammering. But I think with this game, it doesn't register another click until the sword hits, so perhaps this speed is not necessary after all.
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I've been looking for this game for the past 30, YES 30 YEARS! I remember i played it at my friends house but for the life of me i couldn't remember the name. Thank you for this video!
DEFENDER OF THE CROWN -
one of the best classic cinematic games
on the Amiga ever!
- Best graphics
- Amazing soundtracks
- Excellent gameplay
- Awesome box art
- Beautiful ladies 😻❤️🌹
Absolutely magnificent and inspiring 😺👍🕹️.
Great time sink with nostalgic memories. same goes for WIngs, Pirates!, Simcity and Setllers.
@@Thrashie And let's not forget...
- THE LORDS OF THE RISING SUN
- IT CAME FROM THE DESERT
- LEISURE SUIT LARRY 1-5
- THE LOST PATROL
- SENSIBLE SOCCER
- SENSIBLE WORLD OF SOCCER
Also, i admit, that the Commodore 64 and Amiga games even inspire me to draw my own comic fan arts -
mostly the furry comic arts 😺🐰🦊.
@@ArttuTheCat Interesting.. Rising Sun never showed up on my radar and for a moment even mistakenly thought it was about Rise of the Dragon.
The list of great games is too large to list, but loved almost every minute of it.
@@Thrashie RISE OF THE DRAGON from Dinamix? That was brilliant, too 😺👍🕹️.
@@ArttuTheCat - I almost played Lords of the Rising Sun for the Medieval Banquet Introduction video, and had it on my list, but like Canton and so many other games, I felt it was set in the right time period but not Medieval enough to include them. I think including Chinese/Japanese games would have been a bit too much to cover for the intro video.
I reviewed Rise of the Dragon quite a while ago, and last year I included Rise of the Triad in the RTG specials. Hopefully, no plans to cover Rise of the Robots.
The graphics in this game blew my tiny mind when this was first released. There’s a good segment talking about how this game was made in the movie From Bedrooms To Billions: The Amiga Story.
Yes, The Amiga Years is an excellent documentary, and I helped them by recording at least half of the games footage for it. The team recently ran a kickstarter for a sequel entitled The A500 Story, so I hope you are a backer and ready for the next instalment. :)
@@LemonTubeAmiga Oh wow. Yeah I am a backer. I had no idea you were so involved in both projects.
26:41 I love this little map. (I've never played the game)
The artwork is a masterpiece, and it is very quick to play; like 30 mins or so, and definitely worth a bash on those hot lazy Sunday afternoons.
13:14 I like how the shooting star appears immediately after you mention it and immediately before it switches to the castle's interior.
Yeah, that's one great reason for watching the footage just before I do the narrations. :)
I loved this game. I remember discovering a cheat that gave you 1024 knights and loads of gold. Pretty much made you invincible.
Real gem!!! Amiga trade-mark game!!!One of the main reasons why I requested my dad bought me(and my brother as well) Amiga 500 in September 1989. !!! Happy days !!! Great review as usual, good job man!!! Never been good at jousting unfortunately...
There is a tips and secrets special video coming up this year at some point, where I reveal how to do the jousting. It was something I could never do, and always wanted to know.
@@LemonTubeAmiga I'm looking forward to see that video and how to do the jousting!!! After 30+ years of waiting I hope I can beat opponent knight finally....
This game was the sole reason I got an Amiga back in the day, and I never won a joust fight ever haha
Feels like your campaign army got parked into the last castle you took over.
I dont know what happened there. My army just disappeared. I was thinking I must have got killed in the assault.
Yeah I think there's a bug in the game, but never have your campaign army at your castle if it's going to get attacked. The bug can work in your favour too: If someone attacks your home castle while your campaign army is in another territory, somehow the home army becomes the size of the campaign army, and you get to literally double your army size. Without watching the whole video, but seeing how big that enemy's campaign army is in the end, I'd say someone attacked that enemy's home castle while their army was out, and they got real big real fast.
@@JasonRainforest - Great tips. Yes very strange bug.
Always bugged me, Geoffrey Longsword image definitely looks like a 1970's American actor. Just can't think of which one
That's a difficult one. They probably took the images from some kind of popular book or movie. It reminds me of Richard Widmark mixed with Warren Beatty.
I FINALLY figured out where the image of Geoffrey Longsword comes from. This is Warren Beatty from the 70's. Simply look at his IMDB page and you will instantly see the resemblance.
You are right! I wonder if they used a movie he was in for the other characters.
@@LemonTubeAmiga Yeah, been off/on obsessing over it for years. Just accidentally got a RUclips recommendation for an old movie and it hit like lightning :). But image wise, face is definitely his and the hair may have been simply cropped (although it does resemble his basic hair style)
You started at the perfect castle. From there, build your campaign army by 1 soldier, send him into the territory to the southeast, then take the two to your west (with 1 soldier each time). You'll bring all of the civilians in those territories into your army, and also get the income. From there you'll have a much bigger army to go taking the other territories.
Great tip there. Its great that we can uncover these secrets after all these years. :)
Why you never asked Robin for help ? He provides you with soldiers and knights. You can do this twice per playthrough....also, the saxon kings will never lay siege to your castle, so you are save from them, so go for the normans first...
Thanks for commenting. I was going to ask Robin but the location on the map was quickly taken over by the enemy so I didn't get much chance. I didn't know the home castle was safe. This isn't the case with any other game of this type, so had me fooled.
@@LemonTubeAmiga Good channel btw. ;)
I destroyed so many mice buttons by slamming it has hard and as fast as I could during raids, that my father finally banned me form playing on it his A1000.
Thats a good story. Of course pressing hard does not mean much in this game. Pressing fast and backing away seems to work on the steps, but perhaps best to turn the mouse on its side, and press the button ultra quick, like trembling rather than hammering. But I think with this game, it doesn't register another click until the sword hits, so perhaps this speed is not necessary after all.