Ajs Kind habe ich es einmal zur schlafenden Hexe und danach in den Spitzturm zum Buch geschafft. Für mich schien das Spiel aber unlösbar, weil man an den Skelletten immer kaputt ging. Eines der schwersten Spile am C64 überhaupt!
This was such a hard game, this clip makes it look so easy! Getting the Pumpkin to jump at just the right height in sequence was truly a skill! I always found it hard to remember how to navigate around the castle. I wish I'd made a map!
When i was 9 or 10 , we had a monthly margazine called "micromania" , one month , this magazine came whit a full map of this game , printed in two full pages. Of course , not Internet those days. Such a great time.
there's an undeniable genius that I certainly had no understanding for back then. It's clearly a game where dedication to learning how to best use that control mechanic is the only way but how exceptionally designed around that this game was. It deserves to be talked about way more for it's brilliance but I do understand why it isn't at least considering that most including myself just thought it was impossible
Definitely. This game still looks gorgeous, and the design was incredibly ambitious, but the difficulty is LEGENDARY. Just like the original Couldron, which is just absolutely brutal. To this day I've only ever beaten in on an emulator where I could use save states. Regarding the insane difficulty of the first game, I read an interview several years ago with one of the original developers. He said that the reason the game ended up being so difficult was that they always playtested the game in sections to ensure that it could be beaten... but they never actually ran the entire game start to finish haha!
Congratulations to the player for mastering one of the most beautiful and difficult games of all times. With infinite lives and the help of this video, I took a few hours to finish the game...
Loved this back in the day. Like the first one it was pretty tough to complete, especially without a map. It's only all these years later that i realised that the map layout is actually the palace software logo. Pretty cool.
wow ! That's impresive. This was my 2nd game i got on my C64 (1st was Commando), and i played it a lot. Found each item separatly, multiple times, but never could get them all in one game, and that is what you needed to do because you could not save the gamestate.
Back then I tried Cauldron and I didn't like it. Now I saw Cauldron 2 for the first time and I like it! I want to play this :) There's a huge difference between the two games.
If anyone accidentally occurs here (and I see some amount of dislikes): this game is hardly passable. In some moments you may note the corrections of leaps. Some of them are know for an accommodated player, but some of them needed a plenty of attempts to be found out. It either are series of jumps each with its own correction, or just one jump with multiple corrections.
I remember finishing this game as a kid. But I never was able to finish the first game. Now I'm really surprised to hear this game is considered a hard one...
I recently saw a video of Cauldron III that claims to be the C64 version, but the sound is way too advanced, so I think it's fake. This was the last version ever released for the C64, right?
Yes, and no. Cauldron II was the official last version ever released for the C64, but user "jeebos2006" working on a sequel, called Cauldron 3: Wrath of the Witch Queen.
I/we(the friends back i hang out with back in the 80s.. have never completed this game back in the day when C64 was big news...usually.. my friends and i got pissed off( we where like 7-8 years old kids..🤣🤣 that we ended the game , ragequitting, and ended up playing Wonderboy 1(wich was way more fun, or Bubble Bobble..which was/is even more fun, or Wizard of Wor, aaaaaaaaaannnddd or a lots of other C64 classics) Instead :) i guess we got tired of that witch laughing at us everytime we frakked up in Cauldron II. 🤣🤣🤣
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When winning the game feels like having discovered an Easter-egg.
Ajs Kind habe ich es einmal zur schlafenden Hexe und danach in den Spitzturm zum Buch geschafft. Für mich schien das Spiel aber unlösbar, weil man an den Skelletten immer kaputt ging. Eines der schwersten Spile am C64 überhaupt!
This was such a hard game, this clip makes it look so easy! Getting the Pumpkin to jump at just the right height in sequence was truly a skill! I always found it hard to remember how to navigate around the castle. I wish I'd made a map!
When i was 9 or 10 , we had a monthly margazine called "micromania" , one month , this magazine came whit a full map of this game , printed in two full pages. Of course , not Internet those days. Such a great time.
I remember being impressed with the graphics back in the day. Boy I cannot have been spoiled.
12:57 The evil laugh that still gives me nightmares
The Cauldron series was charming and difficult in equal measure. Definitely one of those "where the hell am I going" and "what am I doing" games.
Rather traumatized after playing this at age of 9...
yeah I was 7 these games were so hard!
I was 15 but still suffered from this game.
Did any of you beat it?
@@speedymatt1236 never, but didn't matter so much. Was just fun playing
Definitely a tough game, but shows how the C64 really delivered arcade-style games. This looked and sounded great.
Thank you for finishing this game so that I don't have to.
Loved this back in the day. So hard, even in an era when games were super tough. Looks beautiful, now as well as then.
there's an undeniable genius that I certainly had no understanding for back then. It's clearly a game where dedication to learning how to best use that control mechanic is the only way but how exceptionally designed around that this game was. It deserves to be talked about way more for it's brilliance but I do understand why it isn't at least considering that most including myself just thought it was impossible
Definitely. This game still looks gorgeous, and the design was incredibly ambitious, but the difficulty is LEGENDARY. Just like the original Couldron, which is just absolutely brutal. To this day I've only ever beaten in on an emulator where I could use save states.
Regarding the insane difficulty of the first game, I read an interview several years ago with one of the original developers. He said that the reason the game ended up being so difficult was that they always playtested the game in sections to ensure that it could be beaten... but they never actually ran the entire game start to finish haha!
Cauldron I and Cauldron II along with The Sacred Armour of Antiriad were my favourite games played on C64.
Antiriad Cauldron and Trail Blazers !
Congratulations to the player for mastering one of the most beautiful and difficult games of all times. With infinite lives and the help of this video, I took a few hours to finish the game...
Save states has been used. It was not done without using lives. Only those attempts is not shown and edited out using an emulator.
Loved this back in the day. Like the first one it was pretty tough to complete, especially without a map. It's only all these years later that i realised that the map layout is actually the palace software logo. Pretty cool.
The first game I ever completed, without cheating.
wow ! That's impresive. This was my 2nd game i got on my C64 (1st was Commando), and i played it a lot. Found each item separatly, multiple times, but never could get them all in one game, and that is what you needed to do because you could not save the gamestate.
Bullshit
Ah, good for you!
Back then I tried Cauldron and I didn't like it. Now I saw Cauldron 2 for the first time and I like it! I want to play this :) There's a huge difference between the two games.
Ah, the "definitely beyond my patience level" game. Unlike Hexenküche - which was definitely beyond my skill level.
I love how the ending is like a total anti climax
The ending I never got to as a kid, somewhat anti-climatic.
I dont know how good is the game where moving itself of your own character is your biggest challenge. Nevertheless, cool aesthetics.
A bit of a disappointing ending considering how difficult this game actually was
At least you always get the feeling you achieved something!
Awesome!
This game was so hard, i could never control that character properly.
Sometimes difficult controls can be part of the challenge!
Nice !
I remember this game it was so hard ha how you did it while losing no lives is amazing
J'étais pas capable de jouer aussi bien que ça.
Bravo !
Ich habe es damals sehr oft gespielt, aber nie gewusst was ich da machen muss. Doch das war mir egal, ich hab´s trotzdem gern gespielt.
One of the hardest games ever.
At least for me, as a 12 year old. :-)
no.. its still hard as nails! Makes completing Ghouls n Ghosts feel like Golden Axe.
Really clever
Great game, Well done!
12:54 “I’m falling!”
If anyone accidentally occurs here (and I see some amount of dislikes): this game is hardly passable.
In some moments you may note the corrections of leaps. Some of them are know for an accommodated player, but some of them needed a plenty of attempts to be found out. It either are series of jumps each with its own correction, or just one jump with multiple corrections.
I remember finishing this game as a kid. But I never was able to finish the first game.
Now I'm really surprised to hear this game is considered a hard one...
The witch is dead, long live the witch?
An eternal rivalry...
I demand a remake with better controls
ahhh this isn't the amstrad version...so Mars bars must really have been 2 Kiilos after all.
is there anyway to to jump with out shooting which seems to decrease your heath ?
@@MrZoolook I use to play this a lot when i was kid, i loved it, but i absolutely hate it now
The gameplay looks fun, just like in Cauldron 1 but I'm said to hear the witch (the protagonist of Cauldron 1?) is dead :(
Well, in C1, the pumpkin died. :-)
I guess it’s an eternal rivalry
I recently saw a video of Cauldron III that claims to be the C64 version, but the sound is way too advanced, so I think it's fake. This was the last version ever released for the C64, right?
Yes, and no. Cauldron II was the official last version ever released for the C64, but user "jeebos2006" working on a sequel, called Cauldron 3: Wrath of the Witch Queen.
Smoothing :(
Remake of the fascinating music ruclips.net/video/lK5JoM0MjuM/видео.html
He cheated
I/we(the friends back i hang out with back in the 80s.. have never completed this game back in the day when C64 was big news...usually.. my friends and i got pissed off( we where like 7-8 years old kids..🤣🤣 that we ended the game , ragequitting, and ended up playing Wonderboy 1(wich was way more fun, or Bubble Bobble..which was/is even more fun, or Wizard of Wor, aaaaaaaaaannnddd or a lots of other C64 classics) Instead :) i guess we got tired of that witch laughing at us everytime we frakked up in Cauldron II. 🤣🤣🤣