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[Rincewind]

started going through foreign databases.

Would you mind sharing your sources?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I want the real first Dungeons & Dragons video game.

No, not that one, the REAL one!

 

[rusty_shackleford]

started going through foreign databases.

Would you mind sharing your sources?

Going through this one that the german guy linked above
https://www.c64-wiki.de/
And this one:
https://thecompany.pl/

If non-english speakers know of more, feel free to share. I'm sure there's obscure games hidden in them.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

Of interest, I believe the original Ultima games and Dungeon Master got superior ports on FM Towns, Dungeon Master's in English even.

Dunno, whenever I look at screenshots of those kind of ports I have a bad feeling that they weren't made for heterosexuals. Might be wrong though, never played any of them

The FM Towns port of Ultima I+2+3 are basically the nice graphical port we never got over here, and Dungeon Master is just Dungeon Master, but with CD audio.

If non-english speakers know of more, feel free to share. I'm sure there's obscure games hidden in them.

As an English-speaker I use CPC-Power for CPC games, because there's no comparable English database for the platform. The Russian site Old-games has a wiki listing a whole bunch of websites, mostly yar har har. They're an example in of itself, but I'm not sure they have anything not already listed.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Berania c64
https://www.bitchute.com/video/k1jeaP40Pvwu/

i guess more of a shooter
BOOM


Colorado Smith and the Lost Pyramid C64


The Crown of Eternal Night c64


Cyberworld


not so sure on this one..
Dragon's Den

https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/97637

http://gazettegalore.blogspot.com/2015/09/december-1985-whirlybird-quickchange.html?m=1

I begin to wonder on that site's "rpg lists."

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Partially retracting rule #1 due to a game I found that has no reason to not be on the list other than an arbitrary choice. Refer to the edited OP for clarification.

Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun is a Genesis-exclusive cRPG.
https://www.dungeoncrawlers.org/game/dungeons-dragons-warriors-of-the-eternal-sun/

Why am I not including consoles in the platform list for non-exclusive games?
For a few reasons:

• They had very strict licensing. While unlicensed titles do exist...
• These platforms already have exhaustive lists of all released titles well categorized.
• This list was primarily for more obscure platforms. While some of them weren't obscure at the time, they have easily been overshadowed by the popularity of dosbox and console emulators and such in the years since.

These games, however, will be perfectly fine on List #2 as they tend to have the biggest platform differences.

Is rule #1 difficult to understand?
Yes, it does not scale to your level.

Also, I'm going to set an arbitrary platform cutoff date at say... 1995. Yeah, that sounds good. Games released after are fine, but no new platforms.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I have altered the rules. Pray I do not alter them further.

 

[octavius]

The FM Towns port of Ultima I+2+3 are basically the nice graphical port we never got over here, and Dungeon Master is just Dungeon Master, but with CD audio.

Directional sounds? If not, it's not superior no matter how good the sound is.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

For consoles, there were two Shadowrun games, one on SNES, and one on Genesis. Well, there's a third, but its moonrune only, I think there's an LP in the LP forum though. There were also two console exclusive Dungeon Master games. Theron's Quest and some Saturn title nobody has played because its in moonrune.

Directional sounds? If not, it's not superior no matter how good the sound is.

I legitimately don't know. I tried playing that version, but the issue is that I don't think you can control it via the keyboard. My word is not set in stone, but I tried every button and nothing worked. Actually, I guess its not superior in that case, is it? Potentially superior.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Clarifying a position on titles re-released:
The rules only apply to native platform releases. A game "re-released" but actually being emulated does not count. Pedantic, I know, but this entire thing is :autism: to begin with and you'd be surprised at how many titles this applies to.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Cyberdrone for Amiga: RPG? Yea, Nay?
https://www.dungeoncrawlers.org/game/cyberdrone/

 

[rusty_shackleford]

The Realm of Quest Trilogy for the VIC-20 seems... interesting.

https://psytronik.itch.io/realms-of-quest-trilogy

Has a sequel too
https://psytronik.itch.io/realms-of-quest-iv

and a sequel sequel
https://doublesidedgames.com/shop/commodore/commodore-vic-20/realms-of-quest-v/

 

[flyingjohn]

Since we are talking consoles.
3DO dungeon crawler,Slayer:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/slayer

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Cool manual art

 

[flyingjohn]

The slayer manual is also pretty good:

Here is the full version:
https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media...ted/Slayer_-_1994_-_Strategic_Simulations.pdf

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Why did they make Gateway to Apshai a shitty arcade game?

 

[Jarpie]

Liberation: Captive 2 is a very interesting game, and I'm not sure you could actually ever finish it, as you'd just go around saving the wrongly arrested people. I remember that installing it on lower end Amigas would take hours with the maximum settings as it would create the wall graphics through the installer, instead of being packed to the disks.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Another one for the "Well, that's interesting" pile: Might & Magic: The Lava Pits of Aznar (1983)

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Liberation: Captive 2 is a very interesting game, and I'm not sure you could actually ever finish it, as you'd just go around saving the wrongly arrested people. I remember that installing it on lower end Amigas would take hours with the maximum settings as it would create the wall graphics through the installer, instead of being packed to the disks.

It has one of the cooler intros

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Another one for the "Well, that's interesting" pile: Might & Magic: The Lava Pits of Aznar (1983)

And another in quick succession
Ultima: Escape from Mount Drash (1983)

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Perhaps the first cRPG I've seen that would warrant owning a ZX Spectrum(at the time): Swords & Sorcery (1985)

 

[Rincewind]

Perhaps the first cRPG I've seen that would warrant owning a ZX Spectrum(at the time): Swords & Sorcery (1985)

Wow, continuous movement!

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Amstrad CPC seems to have a good number of French(? Guessing based on the titles) games, making a note to go back through them at a later point.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Started marking some games with '#' to signify that I think they look interesting or good, after seeing quite a few titles that are probably worth playing rather than just cataloguing.

 

[Rincewind]

after seeing quite a few titles that are probably worth playing rather than just cataloguing.

Oh... I thought you wanted to actually play them all.