As soon as I heard that music, I felt like a kid again for a moment.

the moment I fell in love with the Amiga. Can't believe it still looks and sounds so good 25 years on

Well that was a trip down memory lane, I remember being stunned by the amazing graphics and sound back in the day. It was 1986.

Groundbreaking game on 1986 Amiga. It was a shock to witness these great graphics on a computer game those days...:)

Hard sometimes to comprehend the game is 20 years old.Back in 1986 it was dynamite and had a nice medieval feel to it.

One of the best Amiga games around. This is what made us fall in love with Amiga in the late 80's as kids. It looked and played so incredible.

This game was brilliant! I'm feeling very nostalgic right now!😃

I never could joust, but Geoffrey Longsword and I raided heaps.. this was my SECOND FAVOURITE GAME EVER when I was little.

Gotta love how the image of Ivanhoe is smiling after he's scored... :p

Despite the fact that the main theme was played in simple synthesis, it still sounds grandly epic.

this was one of my absolutely favorite games on the amiga. i had so much fun playing defender of the crown. most i played it with a friend. and alone too. it was great!

This looks a lot easier than I remember when I was 7

one of the most beautiful memories i have of my childhood :D thanks for the video, i watched it all and i wish i could play it again at least once :D

20:31 is of course why we all played this game.

Man I loved this game back in the day 8)

Geez, talk about a trip down memory lane. I remember playing this when I was five! Thanks for putting it up.

One of the best Amiga games ever made!!!!!! TY for this video.

awesome graphics for the old time

wow.. this brings back memories :) one of my fav games a kid! :) the music is timeless :D

Wilfred of ivanhole, the man who singlehandedly united half of england thanks to his jousting skills

my brother played it when i was a child of 7 years or so. it was 88 or so. Now i played it on emulator, i loved the music all the time, never went out of my head. Took me some time to understand the tricks, and it is still a brilliant game, a lot of fun !

I used to love this game. This vid brings back some really good memories

Won this game about a 800 times. I must have played this for over a month of continuous play time in total when i was young. I know all the ins and outs. Won with all characters, can win every jousting. Great addictive game, but actually full of bugs. Bugs were all your armys are reset to zero when the enemy takes a random castle far away; where your away team is suddenly duplicated in your home team (doubling your men), battle hangs when you click ferocious attack to fast. C64 has less bugs.

what a great game with great music

This brings back some memories :)

11:30 The enemy army was 0 but they still lost a man. That was one strange death.

Damn! Whenever I hear the strains of "Defender Of The Crown", I really, REALLY MISS my Commodore Amiga 2500! DoTC, LoTRS, & TVS:F, were the three Programs that really showcased what a great graphics machine the Amiga 2500 was. In DoTC, I couldn't 'joust' worth a DAMN! But I was crazy for the music that signaled the Tournaments! I always saw myself as Robert Taylor's "Wilfred of Ivanhoe"!

I loved this game ,never stopped playing it,he only completed in on 20 odd minutes

Great vid. So many memories! Thankyou for posting this.

I love Defender of the crown, one of my favorite Amiga games :)

the trick in jousting is simply put ur spear on the stomach of ur enemy(middle between spear and shield)

I like the shadows at 19:36.

Yes the music was great. I have it as Ringtone on my celphone for a long time

Tears came to my eyes at the triumphant bars of the opening theme were heard.

The graphics are much better on the Amiga version but its believe it or not it doesnt have as many features as the NES! And it doesnt look as hard either - the only way to hang onto territory in the NES version was to build mini on it, and garrison it with quite a lot of men, took ages.

That's right kids! Longplay back then was 23 minutes. After that gaming session we did our homework and went to bed.

If you drag the mouse around 21:01 you will see that a blonde girl flicker before Katherine. Must be some kind of graphics bug while randomizing the looks or something..

Nicely done, but you can complete the game a lot faster. Nice to see that you sticked around to trigger the Lady Rescue. But you forgot to show a few features of the game like 1) The aid of Robin, 2) Killing the opponents horse in the joust and 3) Raiding (ok its a lot like the rescue part) ^^ Nevertheless, nicely done good work! :-)

As a child i had a commodore 64 then the amiga 500 plus, i loved it. Despite the fact i was too young to understand games like DOTC, i remember the exiting part for me was the swordfighting in the castle, though i could never figure out how to play it and therefore i allways got beat, along with the jousting and most of the battles because i didn't know how to build an army lol. God bless you cubex55 for your extensive archive on amiga games, it's a pity i won't get to play them again though.

I remember a moment when i was young... maybe around 14.. It was when i saw a Amiga for the first time, It started rather unimpressevly.. A white screen with a hand holding a disk, and then a blue screen with some info running on it... and then this... Golden letters on a stone wall, shining like they were real.. and music like nothing i had ever heard coming from a computer speaker... That was the Amiga. The Rolls Royce of Home Computers.

One of my favourite Amiga games. Thank you!

amazing masterpiece mindblowing for 1986 Rings of Power has a lot in common with this game

thanks for sharing this game

Christ i remember playing this when i was about 10 , looks amazing for the day and age , a pre curser to the total war series methinks :o)

Once you know what pixel you needed the joust to match up to, you never lost :)

I think he has played this a few times. Well done!

Annnddd that's how it's done!!!! I played this game for 7 years as a kid.. & never mastered it. That was amazing!

My favorite part in this game was the end theme, when the hero is crowned king. An epic piece of music!

One of the best game ever!

It’s so good to finally see how this game ended after all these years..... I was shit at it and never quite understood the jousting and how to win it. It always seemed like luck to me.

Ich finde die Grafik heute immer noch geil! Das Spiel war auch super. Da werden wieder Erinnerungen an die gute alte Zeit wach! :-)

Pure ruddy class!

There is a "trick", before the horses charge, you see a screen 3:30 in this screen you aim at the small striped white/blue tent with the tip of the pole. In the 90% of the cases you will win.

Ahhh notalgia... this game makes my inner child happy. Just the music spark a warm feeling of fuzziness.

I still can't get over how 1 soldier would always die even if you fought against zero.

When I played this on the Amiga 500, there was a cheat code where you hold down K while the game is loading. You start the game with 1024 knights. It's impossible to lose!

Same for me. As it looks here, you have to aim so that the top point of lance movement aims at the center of the shield.

loved this game, felt great the first time i completed it.

One of the first Amiga classics.

Thanks to bring back so good memories. Just too bad you didn't finish the game with Lady Rebecca of York.

We used to have this for the NES, but at the time, I was too little to figure out how to play. After seeing the playthough, I think I understand what to do now. :P

Cedric of Rotherwood looks like David Hasselhoff. Seriously, you hum a tune, enter it in youtube and there it is. I love this intromusic.

Good times.

I know this is a bit late, but the way we always did it was by using Wolfric the Wild and putting the left edge of the mouse arrow on the neck of the horse pulling the wagon in the view of the entire parade ground. It never failed.

i just love this game.... my childhood

"hey! this looks like a kids game!" -larry 1987

you got to admit the graphics from when this was made 86 to its release still quite good to today's ones

i've never realized that, thanks.

Cedric of Rotherwood SERIOUSLY looks like David Hasselhoff...

The bad thing about the swordfight sequences were that you never knew which one would win until it was too late.

I remember how disapointed I was playing this on the Amiga. It was quite dumbed down gameplay from the c64. But the graphics was amazing.

Great game! I completed this Amiga game 5-10 times. I still have this for the Amiga 500 and also Commodore 64. And if i remember correctly, you have to hold K key to receave yourself 1000 knights at the beginning. =)

Yeah, the reason the game lacks certain elements, was because Cinemaware had financial difficulties at the time and needed cash. They had to release it early for the Amiga. Still, it was my favourite game back in 87, and it's fun even today. :)

when I first played this I was around 12... I never succeeded in winning the tournaments :)

Oh what a blast from the past! I was always useless at jousting lol

Amazing what 1 meg can do.. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

@ILoveKaters17 because the amiga version was the initial version, and because of financial problems, cinemaware released it without those planned extras. They needed to get the game out quick for revenue purposes.

Most recognizable game soundtrack ever?

I feel your pain, and the horses sure-as-hell feel ours!

How in the hell do the multiple battles against enemy armies always result in the hero's army only losing 3 or 4 men at most? Are the calculations done differently in the Amiga version or was the "Ferocious Attack" option just bugged somehow? Because I played this dozens of times on IBM PC and was never able to lose that few men even with overwhelming odds.That said, this was fun to watch. Essentially, the perfect DOTC game with no mistakes (other than trying to assault a castle without a catapult, which was just a misclick, I'm sure).

I just sent the link to this to the creator of the game - Kellyn Beeck. A true classic.

great theme!

OMG this was the other game I used to play all the time, the other being Dungeon Master. Amiga was the shit.

Apparently, the "outflank" manouver was not in the Amiga version. Rushed, indeed. Also, in the C64 version it was impossible to call a tournament twice in a row. "The lords have not returned home from you last tournament" was the message.

I remember this from so long ago.

Lol 2020 and I'd love yo play this again.

Cool music!

This could make a good movie!

It lowers the morale of the defending forces. If the wall is undamaged, the defenders may win even against great odds.

I was always losing in tournaments. =(

I beat this on the C64. The jousting on the Amiga was buggy and I could never win.

I became and still I am a nerd becouse of this Cinemaware jem, a long, long time ago.....

I remember in the jousting, I accidentally killed the horse doing this, once

17 years ago... 😮

4:25 I think this is the first time ever I see this message.

I still play this on my Amiga now

That would be the flag of the Knights Hospitaller. As the game is set in the 12th century, this would be fitting with the religious Crusades of the era. The Danish flag later 'fell' to it's people in the early 13th century, it's origin likely to be Knights Hospitaller as well.

never made jousting for land such a cornerpiece of my strategy before - now that i see it, i realize it's totally OP :-P

Of course, you'll need another crown to give to your Queen.

@cubex55 so was this played on a amiga computer or was it played on a computer with a floppy disk drive? If it was played on an amiga, how did u install the WinUAE AVI output?