A big thank you to the 8-bit Guy for reviewing my game "Realms of Quest V". I got quite a kick out of seeing him set up the dual disk drives in this video. To answer his criticisms: 1) True, there is no overhead tactical combat view. That was a deliberate design choice that follows the classic "blobber" RPG games such as Wizardry and Bard's Tale that also only featured the portraits of the monsters that you would encounter. A party size of 10 players facing 5 rows of monsters that could have up to 15 monsters in each row. 2) And regarding the complexity of the game that might be off-putting to players in the year 2019, it is very much like a 1980s computer RPG game that teenage boys would play back then. But I can understand how this game might alienate the casual fans in that regard. I pretty much programmed almost the entirety of the Dungeons & Dragons (Basic Set and 1st Edition AD&D) rulebook into this game. So I wanted to emulate the computer RPG experience for the actual VIC-20 computer--with disk swapping to boot. I very much enjoyed watching your video and I liked your allusions to Ultima of which I am also a big fan.

Thanks for reviewing my game (L' Abbaye des Morts). I'm really glad that you liked it. But now you have to find the Easter egg! :-)

The Realms of Quest series is something I'd have crawled over broken glass for back in '82 when I first got a VIC. What an amazing feat for a VIC...!

13:38 theme tune from Men Behaving Badly, a british sitcom.

Respect for shoutout to techmoan and not making a duplicate of his video even linking his in the description.

the high score screen on Man Cave sounds like the theme from the tv show "Men Behaving Badly"

The art direction in L'abbaye des Morts is amazing!

11:31 8-bit version of Led Zeppelin’s song “Kashmir”

"a magazine type-in program you would have had back in the Eighties" --- oh, this I do remember. COMPUTE! magazine... .....

9:18 Hey David. "Each room has a name" feature also found in Jet Set Willy on the ZX Spectrum - maybe inspired from there.

Just FYI, I would totally watch a 15 minute on EACH GAME... I don't know if others wood, but I'm sitting here benchmarking and this is awesome to have running while I'm just testing stuff. These are nice to see and you cover them well.

Funny, I noticed the similarities between Fire and Ghostbusters too!

I just wanted to throw out a big THANK YOU for always providing insightful and great videos into the retro electronic eras :).

The intro music on Mancave is from Men Behaving Badly (UK Sit-Com)

The priest game looks amazing. The visuals really blew me away. I've never even used a C64. I've seen games online, on channels like this, but that's it. But from what I've seen, that might be one of the most gorgeous games on the system. To do that in character mode is phenomenal. The music and atmosphere also impress me. Just as Planet X2 might have changed gaming entirely by being an RTS years before RTS was a thing, and provided something amazing and new to the C64, I think, from what we saw here, that the quality of that game could have done much the same, if it were released in the system's heyday.

Man... the stuff in the box. How cool was that back in the day. It's so awesome to see that stuff in there. Great stuff. Don't see that any more.

11:27 I was not expecting to hear the theme from Men Behaving Badly on here.

7:35 l'Abbaye des morts : excellent pronunciation !

Great video - L'Abbaye Des Morts looks fantastic! BTW, you've probably got 100 comments regarding this already but the name-per-room thing has definitely been done before, the Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy games and many others that followed their lead.

11:28 is the theme music to a UK TV show, Men Behaving Badly

The L'abbaye Des Morts is impressive and looks like a fun game!

L'Abbaye des Morts resembles much more the Vampire game by Code Masters. The game looks beautiful!

Thanks for the reviews ! :)

The game Volcano Blast for the VIC also came out on disk

Loved that Ghostbusters game back in the day.

Locomalito and Gryzor87 are two amazing dudes. Had the chance to meet them earlier this year, during RetroAlba, in Albacete, Spain. Very skilled and yet very approachable

There was a game very similar to Realms of Quest V released in 1981, although not for the Vic-20, and it did in fact sell very well. It was called Wizardry! One of the most important RPGs of history!

I can't believe how impressive these games are, especially Realms of Quest V! Also, very much looking forward to your next 8-Bit Keys video! Btw, that Remute cartridge album is AWESOME. I can't get enough of the first track.

9:18 Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy were possibly the first games to have a name for each room on the map. Certainly from what my brain can remember from 1984.

Ah, the wheel style of entering your name, it was on the Track & Field Arcade game back in the 80's. Nice! (And L'abbaye Des Morts seems awesome)

Wasn't quite sure where else to write this, but thanks for the quick shipment of the cassette I ordered! I just got into building a HiFi, and a new tape is just what I needed.

Mancave reminded me a bit of keystone kapers. Had such fun playing it when I was like 5 on my cousin's atari 2600 :')

its really incredible how they still keep launching Commodore games in 2019! I wish to actually have a C64.

Both Mancave and L'abbaye des Morts would have sold like Gangbusters if they had been offered back in the day. Great Work.

Was watching another The 8-Bit Guy video on new retro games. Shut the phone off. A note appeared for KZfaq. Was watching another The 8-Bit Guy video on new retro games. :-)!

L'abbaye Des Morts is a genuine NES-quality game for the C64. Man I longed for something like this back in the day.

I'm really impressed with "Realms" especially since they added a cloth map and coin. Those are things I wish more developers did with modern games as my cloth ultima online map is one of my favorite items. Really nice job covering these games.

I swear, you have the greatest intro of any KZfaq channel.

If only the npc from man cave had known about incognito mode.

The moment you started describing Fire I was like, "Ghostbusters", and then yup! Also, the naming of rooms thing I think must've been a C64-inspired thing because a modern game called "VVVVVV" has named rooms and was designed to graphically represent a C64 game. even with a few C64 references like "?SYNTAX ERROR". I'm not a C64 person though so I have no idea where that inspiration originally came from. :P

8-bit is the future. I was working on the "Turbo Chameleon 64" all day long. Wisch I would be a "Video-Gene" like you. How can I pass over my knowledge to our community.

I hope you do more of these. Perhaps one day we'll have retro creations that you can't tell were made today.

I love the honesty in your reviews.

Great video, really like the art work on those games! Thanks to 8 bit guy!!

Cloth maps! Woo! Miss those :) Great video, as always. Appreciate it.

A new 8-Bit-Keys video? NO WAY!!! ...awesome, I'm excited already. Abbaye des morts looks awesome, giving me Castlevania vibes somehow.

Will watch later, but it was great meeting you at the Vintage Computer Festival the other weekend. Carry on, Mr. 8-bit Murray.

"I like how every room has a name... I don't know if I've seen that before." Every former Spectrum owner: ummm

The games that L'Abbaye des Morts should remind you of are Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, two British games for the British 8-bits micros.

I would have liked to have seen your take on remute anyway, think it's great and I've seen it before techmoan anyway, i'd watch again!

Hi Dave ! According to its italian programmer (Antonio Savona), in Abbaye des Morts there's a hidden sort of "run and jump" Game , which is activable in the following way: Once the game starts, on the very first screen, just go immediately all the left before the knights come up, and jump on the limbs of the trees, until you reach the very last tree on the right. Jump on the highest limb and then jump again. You'll we enter the hidden game ! It's very fun. :)

this is like an Ultima game!

Very good vid! Love to watch new releases for old systems!

The Game of Robot also had names for every room, which often gave hints about what to do in the room. L'abbaye Des Morts really looks cool.

Amazing how passionate those developers are for such retro equipment.

13:52 For some reason, I initially misread that title screen as "Vegetables Online".

Another great video. I think it's time to resurrect my C64 and get 8-bitting! I follow Techmoan as well, and I really like the way you two respect and support each others channels. That's class. :)

That priest game looked fun and atmospheric!

Please do these retro game reviews more often!

12:00 - "Might-could" Texan confirmed!

2:31, wow RAM was expensive back then! :P

I had a pleasant surprise when I woke up this morning, first thing my phone informed me that there was a new 8-Bit Guy video uploaded. All thoughts of Sleep forgotten!

I would like to see a video about :How to make game in Basic.

I played the Abbey De Mortes when it was a flash game!

Awesome! Hope to see more of these types of videos as I love new retro games. Some of those games had really gorgeous artwork.

2:31 I LOVE IT when you play the "lets get to it" music!!

L'abbaye des morts looks stunning! Great work from the coders!

Reminds me of having to set a pageframe address in MS-Dos with EMM386.exe I=CC00-EFFF as an example . New games for back then systems is absolutely outstanding Thank you, The 8-Bit Guy, this is greatly appreciated.

7:33 = Ah, a locomalito game! Those are always fun. Granted, I have the PC version, but it's still a great title.

11:00 that case throws me back to the old Sega Saturn jewel cases, right down to the tendency to crack. :P

Love the boxes! It's one reason I will always prefer a physical copy of a game rather than a download.

Locomalito is a genius :)

Amazing Spider-Man for C64 was another game that had a name for each room

Man Cave even has ultimate dad jokes. 11:48, MY WIFE FOUND OUT I REPLACED OUR BED WITH A TRAMPOLINE, SHE HIT THE ROOF.

FYI, L' Abbaye des Morts isn't the first game to name its levels. I first saw the concept in the 80's on a Mac game called "Dark Castle" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Castle). Since that game was released for the C64, you may even have played it before.

Man cave reminded me of Keystone Cops for the Colecovision. The abbey game reminded me somewhat with the changing room names and layout of Castlevania: Symphony of the night.

After ringing the bell upstairs, you have to go down to ring the other one... Chosen one~

When The8bitGuy doesn’t upload for almost 2 weeks ‘This attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed’

Would love to have the Boxed Cartridge version of L'abbaye Des Morts but unfortunately Double Sided Games had be sold out since early this year, and had been advised by them that they won't be doing anymore. 😢 At least for the people who just want to play the Digital Download is available to purchase from Double Sided Games.

I blame 8-Bit Guy, Retro Man Cave and Retro Recipes... Because of watching their various restoration videos, I broke out my A3000 that's been sitting in a closet for almost 8 years. I replaced its leaky battery... and it works! Having trouble reading some floppies, but I'm not sure if it's the drive or the floppies. Extremely sad, because I have some (I think) rare stuff on them. THEN I went and spent too much getting a PP&S Proram 3000 ram expander... this will be the first expansion card I've _ever_ gotten for my A3000, and I've had it since 1991. (tried to get a Retina video card, lost the auction :( ) Now I've been shopping for a parallel port or zorro network adapter, and have decided I must save up for a ZZ9000 video/ram/net expansion card... AND I gotta get a Commander X16. AND and I've been fighting with myself to keep myself from digging my 128D out of the other closet and restoring it (assuming no caps leaked and ruined it). AND and and that means I'll need to dig out the 1084S monitor out of the same closet and probably have to recap it. So my spare time and any spare change for the next several months+ is going to be tied up... I can't wait. :D (and that reminds me, I meant to order Planet X3 (finally) today... ) But first... the rest of the video...

Nice reviews :) I actually bought Mancave, for the same reasons you listed (it reminded me of the cheap cassette games I got as a kid), and I can tell you the loading screen (with a mock-up of the Army of Darkness poster and a SID cover of "I Need a Hero" from Bonnie Tyler) is directly lifted from the TAP/Datassette release, with the only difference that it can be skipped over with the fire button :) Doctster, the small extra game packed with Mancave is kinda cool as well :)

8-bit keys is BACK, BAYBEE! Also i think this is the best french i've heard from an average american.

Finally something on 8bit Keys :) never too much 8bit from You :) greetings from Poland :)

I noticed the similarities between Fire and Ghostbusters too before you mentioned it. Also the gameplay of Mancave reminded me of "The Official Father Christmas" game where at the first level, you played as Santa and had to find the parts of your sled that the elves hid around the house, and if you got hit by the elves they would steal the piece from you and hid it somewhere else in the house and you had to find it again.

Someone needs to make a manic mansion style game where various retro computer KZfaqrs tries to save retro systems from destruction.

I love retro, but am looking forward to seeing how the X16 turns out. Keep up the good work!

I love your old pc games and new pc games review and I like your channel.

Anyone else notice the Men Behaving Badly theme?

realms of quest V, if you wanted a modern game with those kind of old school goodies its probably the $100 collectors editions

There's something bizarre, amusing and fascinating about people making new games for old computers/consoles. I wonder what the costs are and how they spread word of the game in question.

Cant wait for Part 2 of the VIC20 restoration

Not gonna lie, i have been waiting ages for a 8-bit keys video.

Great intro to the games, David. I did full reviews of Realms of Quest V, Le Abbey de Mort and Vegetables Deluxe on my channel in the last few months. The Vegetables video also includes an interview with the games author, Mike Richmond. Take a peek if you have a chance.

Love seeing great new games coming out on old systems. 👍👍

Nice review, i was very strongly reminded of CAULDRON, the game you played a pumpkin in a huge castle. Anyone? Keep up the good work, Greetings from Hamburg, Germany (West)

L'abbaye Des Morts looks amazing !!

oooh i saw that keyboard the other weekend. I'm glad you're doing a video on it.

Yes! Excited for the new video from 8bit keys

L'Abbaye Des Morts reminded me of Jet Set Willy.

Finally! Some good content on youtube again.