Just realised there's 2 versions of the c64 Defender of the Crown out there. The version I played as a kid on my C64 was a pirated version that took 2 sides of a floppy. You had to turn the disk over after you had selected your character and spoken to Robin and about to start the game. Also, if you won the jousting tournament the victory shot of you sitting on your horse was corrupted and all you saw was a corrupted shot of 11:14. This version is out there to download and use in your emulator. The version this video is from is a single file version of Defender of the Crown. No need to turn or swap the floppy files. Also, if you win the jousting tournament you get the uncorrupted shot at 12:58. You can get this version from gamebase64. Also, this version is much easier than the two sided version. Once you buy a catapult you almost immediately get the quest to rescue a fellow Saxon lord's daughter and marry her and get that Saxon lord's castle and lands and 20 soldiers. In the two sided version of the game you don't automatically get the quest to rescue a fellow Saxon lord's daughter after buying a catapult. Sometimes I had to wait 6 plus turns and sometimes I was never offered it after buying a catapult. Plus the single-sided version loads much quicker. Also, you can tell the difference by the splash screen that loads at the start that tells you who cracked the game. Single sided is Nostalgia and then loads into a cheat/trainer options. The two sided version is done by very well known Eagle Soft (has the pic of an eagle with a floppy disk in its beak)

I truly loved this game back in the day

The graphics and music of this game are something to behold even today. I love this game.

This game really did justice to the "Interactive movie" tagline that Cinemaware gave it. That's a truly impressive feat for a Commodore 64 game.

The window scene with the maid and the hero was something to look forward too. Especially the way the hold their arms wink wink nudge nudge.

This was probably the pinnacle in C64 games if you had a disk drive. It really showed off and utilised the hardware. Like other people have commented, the sound and music are really good and show the C64's superiority over the Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. The graphics are also a landmark for an 8 bit game making great use of the C64's palette.

This is C64 Perfection - jaw-dropping graphics and superb music. Timeless.

This was a better game on the c64 than it was on the amiga. I could never get the jousting right.

30 years ago when I used to play this, I though Katherine was hot, I wonder what she looks like now?

I used to play this for HOURS!! Thanks for taking me back to my childhood

Goes to show that many old games had a much more varied game concept than 99.9% of modern games!

When i was 8 or 9 years old in 85 i absolutely and still LOVED++++++ the music of this game. The intro is the bomb. the castle attack is legendary and the music when u save the pretty princess is classic.

The glorious Defender of the Crown c64 soundtrack!!

loved this game, old games destroy anything modern.

Wow, happy I had an Amiga during that time. That defender of the crown was beautiful.

damn that was great times.. my alltime favorite c64 game! Had to play it again on my Mobil via Frodo ; )

loved this game back in 1986.

Copyright 1986. 30 years ago... And today I still play it from time to time via emulator on a PC about 4,000 times faster and having about 500,000 times more RAM than my C64.

This game really showed what the C64 could do. I played this a lot.

Ah, I remember this one well. Was always a good way to while away an afternoon.

Wow, me and two of my best friends would play this game all the time back in the day. This really took me back.

One of the greatest games ever made for the C64. Based, loosely, on the tales of Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe and his attempts to bring King Richard back to England after his capture and imprisonment by Leopold of Austria. Can you fill the shoes of Robert Taylor and save, but never marry, Elizabeth Taylor. Or perhaps rescue and be wed to Joan Fontaine??? :)

I had this on the NES. Amazing game.

Ah, after all those years I've completed this game! Ok, that was not me, but finally I found out how it should be played :-)

This game is just brilliant. The graphics are amazing, and the music is superb. And it lasts for ever... I say the C64 version is far superior to the Amiga counterpart.

Tja schade das hier nur auf englisch geantwortet wird :( Das waren definitv die geilsten Zeiten und ich will sie wieder haben. Vielen Dank für die genialen Erinnerungsvideos.

Now THIS game brings back a whole host of good memories from back in the day. A good friend of mine absolutely NAILED the lance battles... down, down, left, left, FIREBUTTON... every time. Good days they were and the music just sets the atmosphere perfectly. Great gameplay here... ;)

I miss this game!

I played this game long time ago, enjoyed this!

He didn't even bother taking her out of the enemy castle, he just nailed her right there in his enemy's bed.

I had this game when I was a kid but had no idea how to play it. I was beaten quickly on the map and could never fight my way through to save the lady. Completely forgot about this though. It’s been a long time since then and was fun to see it again.

Ah, it was the first game exploring the capacities of the Amiga. A very good C64 version, helped by the atractivity of the music. Joust was impressive, and the attack of the castles with catapults. There is a pc version in 2001/2002, which is nice too, and a PC game which is similar as this game: Lords of the realms

I really liked this game and played it to death. I got rather good at it too, I remember. Nowadays I play Crusader Kings II, so I guess I'm still at it in a way. Lovely memories.

This game still looks gorgeous. Amazing.

This was my second disc game (first was Pirates). Back then, I felt as if I was opening a gate to another world after being one year on tape only

Man, do I wish I had this on the C64, had the nes version. Which is decent, but nothing beats playing on the commodore 64. :)

Cheers mate, scratched that itch for me

Love your Videos, even after all those years

You won like four times in a row in jousting! I think maybe I have won once in my life in this game, maybe twice. Not to mention that I have never rescued the princess.

It was my favourite game. I hated the many waiting to download from tape casette for every movement in the game history..

One of my all time favorite games. I never once won at the jousting tournament though.

when i was in 9th grade we played this game for days on end...we thought it was the shit

Never realised the C64 disk version had the screen at 13:00 :) Like the way it's used when you win the joust instead of at the beginning in the Amiga version.

I played both, and I actually prefer this music soundtrack to the Amiga version. (All of it)

Oh dear sweet nostaligia! Good ol'Defender of the Crown! We used to hack the code on this game so instead of saying "Please flip disc over" we made it say "Please fuck disc over" Ahhhh how we laughed and laughed... Funny thing was it was on floppy disc so we never actually flipped it. We just put in disc 2. Sorry, I should say we just shit bum disc 2. HAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!! Oh yeah. Still got it...

medium mode: don't visit the sherwood forest hard mode: don't kill any normans, but keep them in their castle while controlling the map expert mode: don't kill any normans, keep all saxons alive (this also means, you must turn down any rescue attempt) Good luck :)

It’s amazing how Cinemaware maintained the graphic quality of the Amiga games in their C64 ports. Sure, the Amiga did look and sound better, but what Cinemaware achieved on the 8-bit C64 was groundbreaking for its time.

9:38 - You raised a different sort of sword that night! Also, I'm surprised by how "mature" that scene got. Older video games got a way with a lot, huh?

Der Sound alleine!!!!

My favorited game on the C64. Played it for years but never reached the end.

the one and only! : )

8:38 Turn on the $11 !!

9:20 I would died to have this as a teen.

When they kiss at 9.26 I always thought it was a bit naughty cause I could see his Willie and what a willie it was 😄😄

God you make this game look so easy. Was it this easy? I mean i remember beating it when i was a young kid, so i guess it couldn't have been terribly hard. But damn, like... you absolutely stomped them all lol.

There was this bug that when you had a single opponent left, you could stab his horse in a joust and you would loose all your territories. However, the bot would then just focus on conquering these empty territories and you could move to his home castle and win.

5:20 how did you get away with this move? If I ever did that, the red player would just mow down my undefended castle.....

fantastic. thanks

So many hours spent playing this. If I could go back to any time, it would be to the first day I loaded this.

i was 8 years old when my older sis try to ecplain me that game lol...i love it!

Wow I remember that game on my old Nokia 5100 I was addicted

What's most impressive was that this was better than the Amiga original!

Great game indeed.

i had this on NES. . and at the end, i used to sit there collecting money and then buy the maximum amount of guys. . i'm talking 255 soldier, 255 knights, 255 catapults. and one time, i built castles on every region and was gonna put 255 soldiers in each one, but then i decided that was gonna take too long. . when you're a kid and have only a handful of game cartridges and no internet. . .

its amazing

Played this on the NES. Don't recall the dress dropping.

Oh the memories

Von Bards Tale gibt es einen kommentierten Zusammenschnitt auf meinem Kanal. Und wenn nicht schief geht wird Ultima auch noch kommen :)

GREAT GAME. I beat this one inside out. The key was to master the sword fighting on the raids.

I was so bad at this game as a kid and it frustrated me so badly.

I played the 2001 version, which is basic compared to the games of 2001, but there is the wind of adventure, except the fact that I was for the normans, of course ^^

Bei den Longplays benutze ich immer massig Speicherpunkte. Dank der Emulatoren sieht man das später nicht mehr. Ich war aber früher bei recht vielen Spielen ganz gut. Neben den Longplays habe ich ja noch meine "Kraut & Rüben & Videospiele" Sendung. Da spiele und kommentiere ich direkt live und ohne Speicherpunkte.

Memories

Ich habe Das spiel geliebt ❤❤

You can win this game fairly easily if you attack the nearest Norman lord (to the far east) with the help of Robin's men. If you suck at tournament, just choose 'fame' always. If you practice, raiding enemy castles can be much more rewarding, literally. Important: if you're defending a former enemy castle, *never retreat.* It's better to fight to the last man because you'll lose your entire army anyway. So best option would be to not defend conquered castles.

Good times

Why did you attack your friend at 18:09? It is not necessary to finish the game.

besteht denn auch die chance mal nen längeres lets play a la bards tale oder ultima zu sehen - pitte pitte

I have both versions, and this is indeed the better version, the Amiga version cheated, and did not have all the ammo options when laying seige to a castle. There was no posion to lob at the castle. The amiga version cheated by throwing in 250 knights sometimes, total cheat, I cry BS and turn it off. :) great fun on the C-64.

on the C64 it was really hard, the st and amiga version shined with graphics, but it didn't look that bad on the c64...

Christ, kids of today are so lucky. We had this shite to pass the time away

Können Sie empfehlen Medikamente für Furz und Durchfall? Ich Furz wie eine große Trompete. Vollen Klang, wie ein Kaiser Furz. Mein Durchfall fließt wie ein Fluss!

I read Ivanhoe after playing this game.

Unfortunately I never had this game for C64. I would have failed in this game anyway, due my lack of english knowledge at my younger years...

I'd like to see one video where the player is actually good at the game. Painful, all of them.

Why i get sad watching old stuff?

C64 version was good as Amiga500 version. Even some parts (like battle) were better.

So much easier than the 16bit versions!

ahaaaa now i have the high ground

Weird his "allies" are doing nothing...

played this game on a Commodore PC 10

I could never figure out the jousting :D

Lol, my C64 version was sightly different. All enemy castles had a starting 200 soldiers garrison but my. So my only chance to win was the marriage, because I could get my father-in-law's 200 men too. Sometimes I had to attack the target castle more than 2x in a row and just throw diseaster and greek fires to them and let Robin's army die before my charge and I just retreat with minor losses and repeat until the enemy defenders would be reduced under 100... This play is very easy compared with my very hard version.

The amiga version was only better for graphics but its gameplay was terrible compared to the c64.

7:38 Aw shit... it's on, motherfuckers. "We've come for the maiden - release her or your masculinity is forfeit - _LITERALLY_!"

9:29

"You think a crown gives you power?"

This was an easy game

I had this game. More tedious than fun. Thankfully I didn't buy the game. I had an acquaintance that worked at Software Etc. that unloaded a lot of freebies that were given to the store that they couldn't use for the store computer since it wasn't an Amiga- so he let me have this (among other games).