I remember playing this game on 1989's Soviet "Iskra-1030" computer (which was based on Intel's 8086 clone). Despite being based on 4MHz processor it had no performance issues with this game, compared to many other games of 1989-1990 :) I can take a guess than back in a days you played it on 286-based PC. It used to be widespread in 90's schools.
Cool music in this game. I wish I had this growing up. I would have loved it and spent a lot of time playing it and trying to figure everything out. They didnt make many games like this for Nintendo, especially stuff that left Japan. And it was available to me too and i didnt know it. Sierra localized it.
The banker was always hilarious. Oops! You did it at 5k where he changes from being grumpy about the low amount to so thankful for the higher deposit lol. Loved this game as a kid - the music was actually so creative. Played it and it somewhat reminded me of Faxanadu on the old NES too. But this was a great game. That fire level was bonkers though... there was a level you had to memorize there with the heat gusts that took forever for me to figure out. And back then there was no internet, just an 800 number for help on the game. Crazy to think video games had that!
Thank you so much for recording and uploading this! Takes me back to my childhood. This was one of the few arcade/console style games on the PC at the time, very different from anything else, especially the Japanese PC-88 version graphics. I wonder if they ever made the sequel promised at the end..
I think this game still available to play via browser on The Internet Archive website. This is how this recording was made in the first place. Just Google Chrome & OBS.
@@AnarkiBunny Ah, gotcha! That explains why it looks to run so well. I'm going to grab it and try to run it on real hardware and see how that goes. Worst case, I resort to DOSbox or the Internet Archive's emulator.
Ah, such nostalgia. I remember i got this with my first PC. I bought it used and it came with a whole box of floppy disks with random games on them. I remember that even back then I was surprised this masterpiece fit on a single one. Even today I'm amazed the music still holds up so well. Also, having experienced all sorts of wacky translations over the years, this one is actually really well localized. This was the age of "all your base", after all.
@@AnarkiBunny Yeah, I was thinking about all the behind the scenes work that must have gone into it while I was watching. I remember it taking much longer when I played it years ago, mostly because I was figuring out the map and gaining experience. Thanks for putting in the work to record it!
lol, same) Back in the days it took forever to randomly find a way to the last part of the last cavern. Now, almost 30 years later, this game feels much easier, i think when you memorize the route you will barely encounter any serious problem. The combat and platforming in this game isn't that hard compared to some really tough games of NES/SNES era. So, for me, it's much easier than some Ninja Gaiden/Contra. But, again, because of it's level structure this game will give a challenge to any experienced retro-player. I'm sure that it will took more than 15 hours to complete a blind run.
Thank you, my friend, for your generous deed. That was a game of my childhood, I playen it many times, but never finished. Thank you, for uncowering its secrets and that warth feeling of nostalgia. And yeah, The Spirit is such a dick! How coud he make Duke Garland away?!
i played this since i was 10 now im 41 .......i still could never complete it .... thanks so much for completing it and putting it up so i can atleast watch the ending... i recall on my own i could only get to the ice boots stage but i couldnt figure out how to get to the next stage , mindlessly roaming the caverns, but some how at one stage i remember a shoe that could climb slope i just could not recall if i ever got it. i think the max i ever got was 6 or 7 gems
Я бы сказал, что вся сложность этой игры заключается в структуре уровней, вернее в том, как игра лишь полунамёками говорит: - а у нас тут новая механика! С потоками, тройными дверями и прочим. Если проходить в первый раз, то это точно надолго. Боёвка, платформы и боссы в целом тут не сказать, что сложные. Да и DOS-версия несколько проще оригинального релиза для PC-88.
@@ekaterina8363 потому я ради прибавки к урону два уровня поднял в начале, а третьего босса магией в голову заспамил. Хотя всё-таки следовало где-нибудь включить использование Magia Stone в видео, чтобы больше механик показать).
Reading the comments I feel even prouder of playing this with my two brothers and finishing it together, I must have been 9. We were shrieking and clapping etc etc whet a game and a lovely time :)
It's up, btw , i'm making a even better version with 2 x2 YMF262 layers and 2 x2 YM2608 layers with x2 PCM ontop of the dual MIDI's for the ZELIARD ULTIMATE REMAKE 'SPECIAL EDITION'
Got this in a Sierra games collection that I bought with my own money when I was in 3rd grade. I'm 42 now and really want to go back and stream this live to see if I can finally beat it.
I have fond memories of this game from my childhood, but it was only a few years ago that I actually managed to beat it. One question though, how do you perform the standing overhead slash, I can only do an overhead slash while jumping, but I see you do it while standing on the ground?
Overhead slash can be performed by attacking while holding both jump and crouch keys. It also works while running. Sacrificing a bit of range for a wider arc of attack is almost always worth it.
Heh I played that game so much in my childhood, but I never finished it. Watching you finish it was very satisfying indeed. I can't believe he didn't stay with the princess -_- What is wrong with him?! lol
I think the hardest part to figure out is the tri-way door on level 8. I mean level 8 was already hard, because here we have combination of the fake walls, air currents, air blocks, ton of platforms and destructible walls... And on top of it the game suddenly introduces us to the new mechanics - the one and only tri-way route in the entire game. And it also worth to mention that many players wasn't aware of save/load mechanics.
I remember the save files were a constant 256 bytes long, and it was simple to find (and change) the bytes that affected the almas/gold/items/crests... I still didn't manage to finish it.
No, it was the Sword of the Fairy Flame. I sold my Illumination Sword after obtaining the Lion's head key. And then proceeded to the treasure cave 1:38:25. Also 1:47:15 you can see me trying to sell the FF sword to the blacksmith, but he only offers me 2 gold for it.
Maps are indeed very maze-like from 3rd level (forest) onward. However, the game came with paper maps which help a lot. I had a pirated version of the game as a kid and played it a lot, but never finished it until Internet and Google came along which allowed me to look up the maps.
used to play this with my mom when i was a kid, even had a pack of maps from the Sierra devs after we wrote them. The music is not how i remember it, it wasn't synthesized, much more high pitched.
Thanks for sharing your story :) Surely that's some impressive level of feedback from devs. High-pitch music means that you've played it on PC speaker mode (simplest of sound modes). Since this game was capable of running on early 80's computers it supports many graphical and sound modes.
@@AnarkiBunny yes, we played on a, now ancient, IBM PS/1 which ran on Dos, lol The devs had sent a letter back with it, ecstatic that we had written to them.
I swear nobody knows about this game. I grew up with this and never have I met someone else who has played it. To me, it was basically Zelda 2 except way better.
Are you using DOSBox? I have played it via DOSBox in full-screen mode. Sometimes DOSBox may conflict with other apps not allowing it to go full screen, so it may require you to close other open programms first.
Hi there, it's been a while. I've adjusted resolution to fit my screen better even tho it's 16:10 aspect ratio game and my screen is 16:9, but it is good enough. I even managed to download it to my phone, so now I'm playing it on android with emulator.
There are two different versions of this game. The one that was originally released for japanese PC-88 computer in 1987, and in 1990 it was ported to DOS and also localized in English for western audience. For this video i've played the DOS version(emulated via DOSBox) which is little different from original japanese release. Some mechanics were improved, such as more friendly savegame mechanics or ability to change the game speed. In other hand some stuff were messed up, with example of "Kioku Feather" item, which can be used to instantly teleport you to the last Sage that player talk with (in japanese version), but in the DOS-version it's bugged and teleport you to the very first Sage in the starting town: 1:15:00 There are minor difference in some other mechanics, such as different weapon damage formula, enemies drop less souls(Almas) in japanese version, and some other moments making orinigal PC-88 version little bit harder. And as far as i know there was no other versions since 1990.
This game has a bunch of pseudo-Christian references, with crosses and many mentions of "The Holy Spirit"; strange. (It also takes a shot at fundamental Christians, though I've lost the timestamp for it: The dialogue is something like "The spirits are of the devil; you are fighting for the devil!")
The days of dragon slayers and great heroes like Duke Garland, are gone now. All that remains are the aforementioned. And many others for years to come.
Hola,ya lo tengo,pero no se como grabar y cargar una partida,no se como se hace,alguno sabe los pasos,que teclas presionar,solo descubri control+enter es =menu
El video fue grabado usando OBS studio. Jugado a través del sitio web webarchive. Acabo de buscar en google "web archive zeliard 1990". No sabía mucho sobre edición de video y esto fue grabado en una sola toma. Perdón si mi traducción es mala.
one of the best games EVER !!
ture.
Completely agree 😊
This game took me 20 years to beat. Really. I finisihed it in DOSBOX. I started when I was 8 years old, finished when I was 25 maybe.
Same thing happened to me with Double Dragon on NES and Swords & Serpents for NES. :)
In my case it's going to be 31 years 🤣
i used to play this in my junior high school computer lab when nobody watching LOL
I remember playing this game on 1989's Soviet "Iskra-1030" computer (which was based on Intel's 8086 clone).
Despite being based on 4MHz processor it had no performance issues with this game, compared to many other games of 1989-1990 :)
I can take a guess than back in a days you played it on 286-based PC. It used to be widespread in 90's schools.
I played on a 286 with EGA, it was $5 software bin Kay Bee Toys and I bought because of Sierra logo. Sorcerian also.
Game Arts seemed to have a special love for Falcom. They even had a little Adol NPC in the original Lunar.
This game is from the creators of Grandia and Lunar series.
It's the awesome music that sticks out the most. Would love to play this again.
젤리아드 인기 좋았습니다
Cool music in this game. I wish I had this growing up. I would have loved it and spent a lot of time playing it and trying to figure everything out. They didnt make many games like this for Nintendo, especially stuff that left Japan. And it was available to me too and i didnt know it. Sierra localized it.
Thank you....for this video...
I remember spending a whole year to finish it. So much fun!!!!!!
Спасибо, посмотрел с удовольствием. В детстве не осилил прохождение до конца.
С запутанностью уровней тут постарались на славу. Особенно с огненной пещерой.
The banker was always hilarious. Oops! You did it at 5k where he changes from being grumpy about the low amount to so thankful for the higher deposit lol. Loved this game as a kid - the music was actually so creative. Played it and it somewhat reminded me of Faxanadu on the old NES too. But this was a great game. That fire level was bonkers though... there was a level you had to memorize there with the heat gusts that took forever for me to figure out. And back then there was no internet, just an 800 number for help on the game. Crazy to think video games had that!
We need the 2022 sequel
i can do it but i fear the lawsuits
Thank you so much for recording and uploading this! Takes me back to my childhood. This was one of the few arcade/console style games on the PC at the time, very different from anything else, especially the Japanese PC-88 version graphics. I wonder if they ever made the sequel promised at the end..
Unfortunately, they have never released a sequel. And all of the attempts at making homebrew sequels are now seem to be lost in time.
I was so young when I played this. I miss my childhood
This game looks like a lot of fun. I'll have to try to track down a copy.
I think this game still available to play via browser on The Internet Archive website.
This is how this recording was made in the first place. Just Google Chrome & OBS.
@@AnarkiBunny Ah, gotcha! That explains why it looks to run so well. I'm going to grab it and try to run it on real hardware and see how that goes. Worst case, I resort to DOSbox or the Internet Archive's emulator.
Ah, such nostalgia. I remember i got this with my first PC. I bought it used and it came with a whole box of floppy disks with random games on them. I remember that even back then I was surprised this masterpiece fit on a single one.
Even today I'm amazed the music still holds up so well. Also, having experienced all sorts of wacky translations over the years, this one is actually really well localized. This was the age of "all your base", after all.
When I first saw and played Diablo 1 at a Netcafe, we were like "WOAH, it's like an isometric version of Zeliard!". This game rocked hard.
I ground this game *hard* as a kid - it's sorta breaking my brain that you're able to speed run through it like that!
Thank you for this! Ah, my childhood...
Thank you! This is a blast from my past!
I'm glad you enjoy it :)
It did take me some attempts to record it in one piece without dying.or losing too much time going wrong way.
@@AnarkiBunny Yeah, I was thinking about all the behind the scenes work that must have gone into it while I was watching. I remember it taking much longer when I played it years ago, mostly because I was figuring out the map and gaining experience. Thanks for putting in the work to record it!
man you are a zeliard legend. i remember finishing the game in childhood it took me and my brother forever to do that.
lol, same)
Back in the days it took forever to randomly find a way to the last part of the last cavern.
Now, almost 30 years later, this game feels much easier, i think when you memorize the route you will barely encounter any serious problem.
The combat and platforming in this game isn't that hard compared to some really tough games of NES/SNES era. So, for me, it's much easier than some Ninja Gaiden/Contra.
But, again, because of it's level structure this game will give a challenge to any experienced retro-player. I'm sure that it will took more than 15 hours to complete a blind run.
yeah tough to memorize, i got to the golden world. then it became tough to find the way so i got to your video.
thx for the content !!
Right I can’t remember if I ever totally finished it but remember it took me forever to get the right boots for certain level hazards
Thank you, my friend, for your generous deed. That was a game of my childhood, I playen it many times, but never finished. Thank you, for uncowering its secrets and that warth feeling of nostalgia.
And yeah, The Spirit is such a dick! How coud he make Duke Garland away?!
i played this since i was 10 now im 41 .......i still could never complete it .... thanks so much for completing it and putting it up so i can atleast watch the ending... i recall on my own i could only get to the ice boots stage but i couldnt figure out how to get to the next stage , mindlessly roaming the caverns, but some how at one stage i remember a shoe that could climb slope i just could not recall if i ever got it. i think the max i ever got was 6 or 7 gems
Thank you sir.
"Please, come again."
I love this girl.
браво! это невозможно)
Я бы сказал, что вся сложность этой игры заключается в структуре уровней, вернее в том, как игра лишь полунамёками говорит: - а у нас тут новая механика! С потоками, тройными дверями и прочим.
Если проходить в первый раз, то это точно надолго.
Боёвка, платформы и боссы в целом тут не сказать, что сложные. Да и DOS-версия несколько проще оригинального релиза для PC-88.
@@AnarkiBunny без меджик стоун невозможно никого крупного замочить, как по мне
@@ekaterina8363 потому я ради прибавки к урону два уровня поднял в начале, а третьего босса магией в голову заспамил. Хотя всё-таки следовало где-нибудь включить использование Magia Stone в видео, чтобы больше механик показать).
wow real sound instead of a screeching PC speaker!
and the music's not even half-bad. too bad they put the game in such horrid box art. I guess anime still looked too 'weird' to sell back then
Reading the comments I feel even prouder of playing this with my two brothers and finishing it together, I must have been 9. We were shrieking and clapping etc etc whet a game and a lovely time :)
I'm curious what level took most of the time to beat it? :D I remember completing the last cavern almost by accident.
i've spent an eternity trying to remember this game! tried all sorts of keywords but could never get this to show up on google
This one looks really fun.
GREAT UPLOAD MAN! AWSOME WONDER OF THE WORLD (Y)
haha my dad and i took turns grinded so hard on this game
Loved this game back in the day on an XT clone with CGA and a simple PC speaker. :)))
Same experience here :) Played it on an old soviet computer. Even 8086 machine was enough to run this game well.
@Anarki i couldnt imagine doing a longplay in 2 hours lol good job, btw i'm going too post the custom FM portion of my remake just for you
It's up, btw , i'm making a even better version with 2 x2 YMF262 layers and 2 x2 YM2608 layers with x2 PCM ontop of the dual MIDI's for the ZELIARD ULTIMATE REMAKE 'SPECIAL EDITION'
Got this in a Sierra games collection that I bought with my own money when I was in 3rd grade. I'm 42 now and really want to go back and stream this live to see if I can finally beat it.
эх ... отличная игра.. хороший стрим
ПРИВЕТ ПАЛЕЦ ВВЕРХ!
Let's be honest... Magia Stone and you are good to go xD
I have fond memories of this game from my childhood, but it was only a few years ago that I actually managed to beat it. One question though, how do you perform the standing overhead slash, I can only do an overhead slash while jumping, but I see you do it while standing on the ground?
Overhead slash can be performed by attacking while holding both jump and crouch keys.
It also works while running. Sacrificing a bit of range for a wider arc of attack is almost always worth it.
@@AnarkiBunny thanks, I’m gonna try that when I feel like replaying the game again.
Heh I played that game so much in my childhood, but I never finished it. Watching you finish it was very satisfying indeed. I can't believe he didn't stay with the princess -_- What is wrong with him?! lol
I think the hardest part to figure out is the tri-way door on level 8.
I mean level 8 was already hard, because here we have combination of the fake walls, air currents, air blocks, ton of platforms and destructible walls...
And on top of it the game suddenly introduces us to the new mechanics - the one and only tri-way route in the entire game.
And it also worth to mention that many players wasn't aware of save/load mechanics.
I remember the save files were a constant 256 bytes long, and it was simple to find (and change) the bytes that affected the almas/gold/items/crests... I still didn't manage to finish it.
What about sword of Fire Flame? I see you killed Jashiin with sword of Illusions?
No, it was the Sword of the Fairy Flame.
I sold my Illumination Sword after obtaining the Lion's head key. And then proceeded to the treasure cave 1:38:25.
Also 1:47:15 you can see me trying to sell the FF sword to the blacksmith, but he only offers me 2 gold for it.
Extraño este juegazo,no lo consigo estaría bueno en ps3
This was such a cool game but now I see that I didn't pass 1/3 of the game. Levels were too complicated, I felt like I was in a labyrinth
Maps are indeed very maze-like from 3rd level (forest) onward. However, the game came with paper maps which help a lot.
I had a pirated version of the game as a kid and played it a lot, but never finished it until Internet and Google came along which allowed me to look up the maps.
This game was too hard. I can’t even get passed level 5!
used to play this with my mom when i was a kid, even had a pack of maps from the Sierra devs after we wrote them. The music is not how i remember it, it wasn't synthesized, much more high pitched.
Thanks for sharing your story :) Surely that's some impressive level of feedback from devs.
High-pitch music means that you've played it on PC speaker mode (simplest of sound modes).
Since this game was capable of running on early 80's computers it supports many graphical and sound modes.
@@AnarkiBunny yes, we played on a, now ancient, IBM PS/1 which ran on Dos, lol
The devs had sent a letter back with it, ecstatic that we had written to them.
I swear nobody knows about this game. I grew up with this and never have I met someone else who has played it. To me, it was basically Zelda 2 except way better.
its great game it was on my old all in one computer it at had 30 meg hard drive it died few years ago
This game was stuck in the middle, ibm 286, 624 kb memory, so I couldn't close it 30 years ago. 🤕
If they ever remake this game, they better give you the option to use the old soundtrack.
someone plz remake this game
#ESPADA #SAETA #FUEGO #LANZAR #RASCAR #AGUA #GUERRA
Magia Stone babyyy
Except on cementery cause it causes red slimes to regenerate ( good for farming though)
@@rezos666 Juu-en fruit baby
I just want to know how have you changed resolution, I have tried so many ways and it didn't work.
Are you using DOSBox?
I have played it via DOSBox in full-screen mode.
Sometimes DOSBox may conflict with other apps not allowing it to go full screen, so it may require you to close other open programms first.
Hi there, it's been a while. I've adjusted resolution to fit my screen better even tho it's 16:10 aspect ratio game and my screen is 16:9, but it is good enough. I even managed to download it to my phone, so now I'm playing it on android with emulator.
How do i get this game in my mobile
Was this updated somehow from the 1987 version?
There are two different versions of this game.
The one that was originally released for japanese PC-88 computer in 1987, and in 1990 it was ported to DOS and also localized in English for western audience.
For this video i've played the DOS version(emulated via DOSBox) which is little different from original japanese release.
Some mechanics were improved, such as more friendly savegame mechanics or ability to change the game speed.
In other hand some stuff were messed up, with example of "Kioku Feather" item, which can be used to instantly teleport you to the last Sage that player talk with (in japanese version), but in the DOS-version it's bugged and teleport you to the very first Sage in the starting town: 1:15:00
There are minor difference in some other mechanics, such as different weapon damage formula, enemies drop less souls(Almas) in japanese version, and some other moments making orinigal PC-88 version little bit harder.
And as far as i know there was no other versions since 1990.
1:37:00 -- Epilepsy Alert!
1992
This game has a bunch of pseudo-Christian references, with crosses and many mentions of "The Holy Spirit"; strange. (It also takes a shot at fundamental Christians, though I've lost the timestamp for it: The dialogue is something like "The spirits are of the devil; you are fighting for the devil!")
Asbestos Cape.... Cringe!
King Graham ain't got nothing on this guy. And neither does King Arthur. Or Devon edendale.
Or Robin hood!
The days of dragon slayers and great heroes like Duke Garland, are gone now. All that remains are the aforementioned. And many others for years to come.
I say that because the characters in the Sierra online adventure games are weak as hell
I love this game
Hola,ya lo tengo,pero no se como grabar y cargar una partida,no se como se hace,alguno sabe los pasos,que teclas presionar,solo descubri control+enter es =menu
Hola,me podrias decir como haces para grabar y cargar partidas,para mi es imposible hacer todo lo que haces es muy dificil.te agradezco
El video fue grabado usando OBS studio.
Jugado a través del sitio web webarchive. Acabo de buscar en google "web archive zeliard 1990".
No sabía mucho sobre edición de video y esto fue grabado en una sola toma.
Perdón si mi traducción es mala.
I love how exotic is the Spanish