SSI "Gold Box" AD&D Games

An interesting story on how Good Old Games was able to save and preserve the old SSI Gold Box games.

That was a FANTASTIC article. I actually own the ancient Forgotten Realms collection which had most of those. Never got it working, pleased as punch to have GOG equivalents.

I don't see Champions of Krynn on the list... that was the only old D&D game I ever played.

Kudos to making these classics available though, that was some dedication to bringing them back.

I owned that Collection, too.

Yeah, WOTC apparently decided to drop Dragonlance into the heart of a legal rights volcano and try to pretend it never existed, so no one can do anything with that setting at all. A real shame.

Never played Spelljammer: the Pirates of Realmspace, tho.

A History of D&D Video Games

Part II

Holy shit, I remember that article. Went looking for it years ago for a friend, I wonder if he still remembers me talking about it.

For what it's worth, I remember no one should have wanted to play Pirates of Realmspace. If you really MUST though...

And while I can't do anything about Dark Queen, you might as well play the sequels.

edited 31st Aug '15 8:12:36 PM by Watashiwa

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No kidding!? So the chance of the Krynn games being on GOG are much smaller than usual? I feel an urge to give everyone in my party Footman's Dragonlances again...

Not necessarily. No one knows who owns the Master of Magic license, but there it is on GOG.

Although No One Lives Forever lacks a modern build for the reason of no one knowing who holds the license, sadly.

Nah, one of the license holders told Night Dive to stop bothering with the game. That's what put the final nail in the coffin.

By the way, anyone love D&D: Stronghold or Fantasy Empires?

A History of D&D Games, Part III

edited 3rd Sep '15 5:27:18 AM by AnotherGuy

Was the game actually called D&D Stronghold or was it just a Dn D themed, stronghold management sim?

I did play Stronghold, and yes, that was simply what it was called. I can understand calling it D&D Stronghold though, since there's a later game series with that name that ended up being more famous.

I will also note that it used polygonal graphics, something that was rare at the time it was published (1993).

Actually, it was D&D: Stronghold.

Box art◊.

Uh, dude, that D&D logo (or something similar) appeared at the top of every one of the old D&D games. By your logic, we should be calling all of them things like Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Gateway to the Savage Frontier◊ and so on.

Enjoy. Twice.

edited 3rd Sep '15 10:51:56 AM by AnotherGuy

Nope, I don't enjoy people making errors like that.

Look again at the box art you linked. Under the Dungeon & Dragons, it says Computer Game, as in "Dungeon & Dragons Computer Game". Dungeon & Dragons was not supposed to be part of the original title.

Also, Wikipedia says hi.

edited 3rd Sep '15 10:54:46 AM by TotemicHero

Anyway, I never made it far in Stronghold. I think I only got to Count (3rd level).

Wonder how I'd do if I tried these days.

Wikipedia is such a great news source. Want me to change the title?

edited 3rd Sep '15 10:56:36 AM by AnotherGuy

Or I could cite the original news article you linked above, which calls it simply Stronghold.

Did it honestly never occur to you that those websites specifically called it such as a way of distinguishing the URL and such for searchability, instead of being a statement of the actual title of the game?

This is a dumb debate anyway, and definitely not justification for trying to make edits to Wikipedia (as that pushes in on exporting drama). Call the game what you want, I call it what I want, whatever.

edited 3rd Sep '15 11:26:56 AM by TotemicHero

Again, anyone get far in Stronghold?