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To arms, my noble Saxon knights!

Defender of the Crown, a 1986 turn-based strategy classic, originally launched on the Commodore Amiga, is available in all it's pixelated glory on GOG.com, for $5.99!

We are happy to announce a new partnership with Cinemaware that will bring plenty of mouth-watering classics in their best available incarnations. Starting with Defender of the Crown, more classic titles from Cinemaware will release on GOG.com with both PC and emulated Commodore Amiga versions. Yes, the graphically superior, awesome, beautiful and shiny Amiga versions!

Today's release is a wonderful gem straight from the 80s. Back in the day, Defender of the Crown set a new standard for graphical presentation and innovative, fresh gameplay. As the leader of an initially sparse pack of Saxon knights, building up your army and influence as you proceed, you'll have to stick it to the Normans in an effort to gain control of the war-torn medieval England. Your strategic prowess as well as your sword fighting skills will be severely tested. This turn-based strategy classic will have you saving damsels in distress with your blade, jousting with fearsome knights, and besieging Norman castles - all the while reveling in the Amiga quality sound and beautiful graphics.

Defeat those pesky Normans and unite England in Defender of the Crown, for $5.99 on GOG.com.
Post edited September 09, 2014 by JudasIscariot
HAHA! YES! At the moment i open gog's www there was a theme from 2001 Space Odyssey on the radio I listen to :-D

I will buy a copy ..or two as soon as I get home. Will have great game for me, one other goger and in the same time I'll check if introducing additional currencies turns to my favor or not.
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Wow, this game was made 28 years ago? It looks like it's aged very very well in comparison to other games out at the time...
Defender of the Crown!
The times I tried to figure out how to win at jousting!
Those times are back!
XD
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damien: does this mean more Amiga titles in the future? Or is this a one time Cinemaware deal?
Just for Cinemaware, guys :)
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damien: does this mean more Amiga titles in the future? Or is this a one time Cinemaware deal?
I would image there's more CINEMAWARE Amiga titles to come - not sure if that's a yes or a no...

How are they going it then? some kind of BIOS less emulation? Was it because Cinemaware used loaders that pretty much negated the Amiga's BIOS in the first place or something?
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rtcvb32: Wow, this game was made 28 years ago? It looks like it's aged very very well in comparison to other games out at the time...
That's because Amiga.
Excellent release, I don't share the Cinemaware love as much as a lot of GOGites do but it's nevertheless a great addition.
Never played this one, how's the difficulty?
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gandalf.nho: Never played this one, how's the difficulty?
Rather easy & extremely fun game.
Does that mean that we might be able to buy Kickstart in the future?
Post edited September 09, 2014 by DebugMode
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gandalf.nho: Never played this one, how's the difficulty?
Fairly tough IIRC (I WAS pretty young at the time though) - one of those that relied on you being good at the arcadey minigames to make good progress on the more strategic side
Played this game a lot back in the day, a true classic :)

Omg, TV Sports Boxing... I think that's the one Boxing game I ever really loved playing, great career mode :p
Post edited September 09, 2014 by Pheace
FANTASTIC!!!!! CINEMAWARE (and such firms and their titles) - THIS IS WHAT IS, WHAT WILL BE, AND WHAT WE WANT FROM, GOG!!!! thank you, guys...that said - never did play amiga version - so it is an insta buy....
Post edited September 09, 2014 by sergejGOGaccount
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rtcvb32: it's aged very very well
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Erich_Zann: That's because Amiga.
Probably... PC graphics was crap at the time, and Mac was laughable too. Atari was good to a degree, but dying.

Now i'm tempted to go out of my way to do Amiga emulation...