You have no idea how many full hearts and choked up memories this brings back for so many people.

Unforgettable, classic RPG game. Getting lost in the forest, epic. Along with finding the flying gold swan, the day/night cycle, etc. Awesome game.

@AmigaWolf

7 жыл бұрын

You could hit special keys on you keyboard to get the flying gold swan, that happened with my copy of The Faery Tale Adventure.

@Dhirallin

6 жыл бұрын

What's amazing is it was basically a launch product for the Amiga. David Joiner did all the coding, gfx and sound in like 7 months, and the code was full of cool hacks, like for the smooth map scrolling he basically used the floppy disk controller chip as a second processor to load the maps in the background. An incredibly ambitious single man achievement. It came out so early that a lot of later Amiga users didn't even know it existed.

@ruffback

6 жыл бұрын

Rajie Music yeah.. mind blowing he did all that work such a short time. Amazing achievement.

@ilcugginocanadese

4 жыл бұрын

I'm still in that forest. Help!

@nonmutualgroup

3 жыл бұрын

I remember this well..

I remember being attacked by a skelleton and I gave him some food or money he replied with ....Well thank you young sir" and then he started beating me to death.

@roygalaasen

3 жыл бұрын

I remember that almost every single locked house had secret entrances through either of the side walls.

@IYPITWL

3 жыл бұрын

I remember saving some turtle eggs from snakes and east of town was a jade skull

@malk6277

3 жыл бұрын

Ha - I remember that too

@Koettnylle

3 жыл бұрын

Well, it would be kind of rude not to say thanks.

Oh my goodness! Thank you for posting this! Brings back such happy and exciting memories of watching my father play this.., my brother and I would sit around our father and the Amiga and be transported to fantastical places! How wonderful... thanks again!

This game is one of my personal favourites. I was 17 years old when it was released. At that time in the late 1980ies I spent more time drawing maps than playing the game. ;-) One useful thing at the very beginning of the game is to head south-east along the path starting east of Tambry. After some walking you reach an old graveyard. Enter it in the north-east. Stay in the graveyard and wait for enemies to arrive. In most cases they come from the outside of the graveyard and you can kill them through the fence without taking any personal damage. You can even plunder them through the fence. Sometimes it will take some time until the enemies start their attacks. Increase your BRV to 100 and then you may start the quest without getting in too much trouble.

@heinerboellenfalltor

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's a cowardly move. ;-) But it's just a computer game from 1986. I am a pacifist in real life.

@SeanusAurelius

6 жыл бұрын

Even better, there's a jade skull hidden in one of the fireplaces in Tambry. Using it you can nuke the first group of guys with a sword and a bow. There's also a stone circle north-east-east of Tambry which has some nice loot buried in it.

@TheJosep70

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha a true precursor of cheesing enemies in a game!

@emailsucks28

3 ай бұрын

Yes! This is how I started every run .

This... is... amazing!! I was playing this as a 3 - 4 year old and it's the earliest game I ever remember playing. I have searched a number of times over the years to find it and never did. Stumbling across it tonight by accident and seeing that I spelled the name wrong when I have looked for it in the past. I have just turned 32 and I am amazed, I have not seen this since. All I remembered of it was that I was in love with the game, fighting skeletons and riding a turtle. Blown away!

@TheThewebguy22

6 жыл бұрын

Me too. I even named my son Julian because of it!

@cryptomomentz

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheThewebguy22 lol wow! for a young kid this game contained more adventure than my entire brain capacity at the time. it really was magical but you guys know that

@exidy-yt

6 ай бұрын

LOL and all I had at that age was Adventure on the Atari VCS! At least my daughters had EverQuest and WoW to kickstart their imaginations (at 4 my eldest had a halfling druid she named Pudgypotato) but Faery Tale would have been a great CRPG to start on with its simple interface and amazing sound. Good stuff!

I remember when my big brothers completed this game at the 90s. they both played this one at them same time, one was using joystick and other was using the mouse. they had some guide helping them from MBNet magazine. it was great! my part was to bring them juice and candy.

@joshuaausel9670

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a great memory 👍 A lot of nostalgia in these old video games

@ShadySnapTV

5 жыл бұрын

Found this game on a 35$ -156 games in 1 -mini arcade cabinet .. Came looking for a guided gameplay.. Only found "dem feels though"

@villevenetjoki7633

4 жыл бұрын

MBNet ... oli ne aikoja. Tätä tuli pelattua aikoinaan ...

@MichaelLeroi

4 жыл бұрын

What a lovely memory.

Those were the days...

@matthewbaumann630

8 жыл бұрын

+jolakki Yeah man!

@nonmutualgroup

3 жыл бұрын

Right..

I played on my trusty Amiga 1000. Awesome game and had more freedom to explore than any game previously

@iamironclaw

8 жыл бұрын

+Bryant Ralston Yup

How I loved this game, it made me dream as a child, and I can say it still does. Haunting

I remember playing this when I was like 16 or 17, thinking the graphics were MIND BLOWING.

Wow, really brings back memories. I counted this game as my favorite for several years. Don't think I ever beat it, but I remember getting the Goose one time and feeling like a god! My Amiga 500 was the greatest. Loved my Cinemaware titles and Earl Weaver Baseball. Miss those days!

@billhenry7213

4 жыл бұрын

Swan, not a goose.

This game was my very first RPG. Phillip was my favorite brother, even though I was a firstborn. I remembered the battle theme even 20+ years since playing it as a kid, when that music was playing it was freaking GO TIME. Oddly enough, it didn't bother me at all that there was no tutorial or help system in this game - I just explored and explored. When I saw the ghosts for the first time, my dad called them "Nazgul" (he was a Tolkien nut...so am I now); to this day they freak the eff out of me. I'll never forget wandering into the woods where the Witch lives, or trying desperately to retrace my steps and find my fallen brother's corpses. Oh, it kills me that I've never beaten this game. I need to find a way to play it so that I can remedy that.

@CarlSinclair

7 жыл бұрын

I complete it every year over Christmas. Usually on a MegaDrive emulator.

I played for days, never finished lol. This music is still in my head to this day in 2021. God bless the Amiga lol.

I played the Sega Genesis version. My little cousin and younger brother would always rent games to play. They couldn't get passed the games, so they would ask me to play for them. I would always say I was too busy to play at first, but soon I would play for them. I would get passed these games, like Faery Tale, and they would become my favorite games ever. Good memories and a very classic amazing game to play. Faery Tale, King's Bounty, and Starflight are my 3 favorites of all time.

I loved my Amiga and I loved this game. I remember walking into the small computer store in Toronto and buying this game. It had a thin, folding book-like packaging and I seem to remember that the games coder was, for some reason, shown dressed in some bizarre fantasy sword fighting costume on the packaging. I don't know why that stuck with me, probably it scared me or something.

I've been trying to desperately remember this game, for the best part of 20 odd years! At last! Thank you!

I bought this game along with my Amiga 1000 in 1987. Played it for many hours each night but never could get very far. I loved the music so much that I let the game run without playing just to listen to the wonderful tunes. Even though it was hard to finish, I very much enjoyed the time spent playing this game. Thanks to the Internet's maps and walk-throughs, 21 years later in 2008 I finally was able to go back and finish the game using WinUAE Amiga emulator running on my Dell laptop.

One of my favorite games...spent many hours playing this as a kid. Brings back great memories!

Epic. Same as the others, I burnt hours and hours and hours on this and never finished it. I have sniffed around at emulators for years but never thought it would re-create the original Amiga experience. Loved seeing the tip to Marble Madness near the end too...that was cute. Thanks so much for posting this....I needed the closure!!

@1066gaz

8 ай бұрын

Emulates perfectly on WINUAE amiga emulator.

@speckledjim5150

3 ай бұрын

@@1066gaz I'll have to keep at it -- my sound keeps messing up and it kills the atmosphere.

Loved this game. It was the first RPG I had on my dad's PC. It even had the same glitch letting you summon the turtle in the lava, which was how I completed the game the first time around. I still have fond memories exploring the lake north of the village, the epic journey through the witch's forest, wondering if there was a way to kill the dragon, finding the golden beast, getting ambushed by a horde of ghosts at Vermillion Manor, finding the hidden city and the quirky astral plane-ish ending area. The graphics were great for its time, although the characters looked very silly moving south. :)

Loved this game! I remember the original Amiga version well. Only drawback was that the taverns and inns didn't offer any travel rations. I also remember the lines around the original map: Make haste, but take heed, scorn murderous deed, hold fast to your creed, in black darker than night, defy ye that blight, wing forth in flight

My friend and I stayed up all night to finish this game as kids. I'll never forget the game or the adventure.

This game was pure genious, David Joiner should be famous for this. Thank you very much!

@roygalaasen

3 жыл бұрын

It was so damn hard to get into, but when you finally got to a point where you could survive, it was quite rewarding.

When my big bro was alive God bless him, Id sneak and play this while he was at work. God I miss him.

It took me a life to complete it. I didn't love the gameplay but the atmosphere of this game was very immersive. I remember the game being loonely and frustrating, with that endless map without people where you wandered forever alone, but in the same time it swallowed you in some kind of alternate reality

Man, those wraiths scared the hell out of me when I first started... but then I leveled up with the fireball-shooting wand and I showed no mercy!

Probably the best RPG of all time. It was amazing for when it came out.

This brings back so many memories of home.

I just completed the Genesis version and its a pretty much a perfect port from the Amiga, you can get a genesis copy for around 10-12 bucks. an excellent landmark for open world rpgs of the early 90's. It's almost impossible to explore all 17,000+ screens this game has to offer. Was the largest open world rpg for 5 years 1986-1991.

@stephandolby

7 жыл бұрын

I only played the Mega Drive version. Sure, it gives up the stereo sound (no idea why, as it should've been superior with the extra channels and without the panning limitations of the Amiga, but all early EA games were in mono) but aside of the redesigned GUI (the Amiga GUI is in high-res as well, the rest of the screen isn't), it's very faithful. It even keeps the pauses when an enemy is nearby. The only missing content appears to be the grunts during fighting, and the sound effect quality has taken a bit of a dive.

@ChescoYT

6 жыл бұрын

what was the 2nd largest open world game after this?

@wtrmute

6 жыл бұрын

Considering they said "-1991", they probably mean 1992's _Ultima VII: the Black Gate_.

Oh my... so much to remember these old days....a lot of things around this game in my life.... thank you!

8:30 excellent use of the graveyard fence exploit

I know how to code 2d games and i've always wanted to make a modern remake of this game and add a co-op multiplayer so that a friend can play as phillip or kevin along side julian.

@TheStuffandthings

2 жыл бұрын

I think a remake of this game would go over well

This game was an absolute jawdropper back then. Amiga - got to have!!

Flying around in a golden swan has got to be one of the coolest fantasy tropes ever! I remember playing the Genesis port of this. Glad to see that there not really any big differences between the two versions!

"No need to shout, son!" lol.

The night shades and the camera movement is awesome. This is like watching a top-rated movie.

Fantastic! This along with Defender Of The Crown were my first Amiga games. Thanks for sharing.

i was OBBSSESSED with completing this GIANT Sega Genesis RPG when it first came out that helped put EA on the map! I wish someone would do a full longplay for the Genesis version.

Brings back memories, was 10 when it came out. Definitely going to add it to my list to watch this in future when stoned

My first Amiga game....to this day my best friend and me both yell 'He Cried!' every time in a movie someone says 'They're all dead'

Thanks for posting. I still have fond memories of this. Great game with great packaging. I never did finish it but looks like I got about 3/4 of the way through :-)

The music is just amazing. The danger music haunted me as a 6 year old and I never knew what to do!

God bless David Joiner! Best game for the Amiga. Still hoping for a sequel.

WOW blast from the past, I used to play this so much as a kid.

Mamma mia !!! Quanti ricordi !!! Uno dei gioco più belli che ho giocato da bambino con la sega mega drive !!!! Fantastico!!! Il precurso degli open world di oggi 👍👍👍

A beautiful game, it made me dream. The music is great, as well.

The only game I ever finished! Loved it back in the 80s

I don't know about you but I ALWAYS got that wand first. It made the rest of the game so much easier. Thanks for sharing this. I'd love to go back and play this

FAERY TALE ADVENTURE and KING'S QUEST were two of the first Amiga games, where you can have freedom to explore many places, also in order to complete the games 😺👍🕹️. COMMODORE 64 AND AMIGA FOREVER 😺👍🕹️! Greetings from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

@litjellyfish

2 ай бұрын

Kings quest was originally a PC game though and it was released as much as 3 years before the faery tale adventure. So a big hail for the mid 80s PC as well. While it did not have the visuals of Amiga. Or smooth scrolling of both it did create some interesting game genres by its own

No footage of setting a book on the joystick button while your dude attacks the turtle all night while you sleep?

Oh my gosh. This takes me back! Happy times. Thankyou!

This was fantastic me and my cousin would stay up countless weekends from friday right through till sunday on coffee and netto cheeseburgers trying to complete this, excellent thanks happy days, Personal nightmare and cannon fodder and sensi soccer along with this go down as my favourite games of all time for the Amiga

One of my favorite Amiga games. And it was all on one 3.5 disk that wasn't even full.

I didn't know they had RPG's like this on the AMIGA.

@litjellyfish

2 ай бұрын

No and it came out just one year after Zelda.

Still incredibly unique even after so much time, an update on graphics and put on new consoles and PCs would make people love point and clicks again.

@litjellyfish

2 ай бұрын

Sorry what do you mean with point and click? This would not be considered a pint and click andventure but more action RPG game. Similar to say Zelda

spent countless hours playing this, so immersive for the time with great music

Was my 3rd fav game on the Amiga. When I transitioned to the OC and was able to get it, it QUICKLY went into the old coal stove. Ended up having a relative fix the Amiga just so I could play this again.

My Dad, his roommate and myself beat this game back in the day. We each took turns playing, it was a lot of fun.

This game blew my mind as a kid. It really left a huge impression on me and is probably a big reason i got i to gaming. Still daydream about trying to actually beat it one day.

Reminds me of how frustrating the forest and witches castle part was. I don't think it can be done without almost starving.

VGA and Soundblaster changed the tide for PC. 256 colors were incredibly beautiful those days...

This game made me love music, Screw modern crap. This is what music is meant to be, and that game. THE FEELS.

@cintulator2

9 жыл бұрын

Charles Uhli Like old c64 tunes now. That music is unfashionable..now. The old C-company tunes just chill..so great. And this!

@UberKvlt

9 жыл бұрын

Charles Uhli You could say that this music is modern, compared to Beethoven and Mosart, or tribal music from across the world. Of course i'm talking about the way in which the music is produced, by computer or synthsizer. Perhaps you mean the arrangements of the music? I'm not sure

@T3slaCoil3d

9 жыл бұрын

Charles Uhli When the Battle Theme came on, and I was like 3-4 I knew it was go-time and everything got super tense.

@jessicamcdonald7002

7 жыл бұрын

I think the villain music sounds pretty badass when it's slowed down like in this video lol...but I came here because I always LOVED the nighttime music...sooo pretty and at one point I wanted it at my wedding haha

@whitemamba8137

6 жыл бұрын

You’re an idiot. It’s called limitations. They made whatever was available to them.

I used to walk around for hours not knowing what to do lol

It was hard trying to figure this game out as a 5 year old. I did not know the Vials restored HPs. I did figure out a nice exploit to save the game, use a mapping totem, then reload so I wouldn't run out of them. Also took me a while to figure out to use the lassoo on the golden swan. I thought I had to hit it with a weapon to make it move. Before I ever won, the game disk got corrupted and... that created a new game with all the game tiles mixed around & garbled, was a cool glitch.

My all time favourite computer RPG. I played it all through the summer of 1984. I was 20 years old.

Thank you for the longplay, it was a pleasure!

@ArttuTheCat

Жыл бұрын

Legendaarista klassikkopeliä Commodore 64:lla ja Amigalla 😺👍🕹️. A legendary classic game on the Commodore 64 and Amiga 😺👍🕹️.

Played this on the amiga back in 1988 when i was 18. Spent 100+ hours on this then, only to be bettered by the elder scrolls oblivion on the playstation with 100's of hours game play. It took the game maker of this game 2 years to make by david joiner which was quite an achievement back then on the 16 bit computer.

And finally, we all arrive at The Plain of Grief

I want an Amiga!!!! Love this game Thanks for posting it.

*THIS* game is teaching you to steal everything everywhere, even if hosts are present nearby.

I have been trying to find this ganes name for a very long time. I clearly remembered parts of it. The forest,the swan, the UI, the music.. but i just couldn't remember the name. I'm so glad i finally found it! Now I can continue living my life and move on after it all came grinding to a halt 15 years ago due to this. I'm 40 now.

Julian was starving!

Same here!!!!! Only I did that around 2000. Once in the nineties I even had a dream about the mysterious city in the desert, I could never find a way in when I was 13... :oD

I loved this game as a kid. Had no idea there was an actual story or objective. I'd just keep playing till a brother died, then take the next and wander around again until that guy died

As well as a paper map, it also had a game function ("Bird Totem") where you could see a large and detailed area around you. I don't think the guy playing this game (above) actually uses Bird Totems because he's so familiar with the layout. When he's going through the maze to the witch's castle, he obviously has done it so many times that he knows exactly where to go. I almost got to that point myself (back in the day). Obviously, there was no random generation at this point in gaming history!

I like how you go to all the trouble of rescuing the princess and the king still won't go to the trouble to have someone unlock the door for you to get out.

That music for the interior transition is brutal

Danke! How can you TAKE without using the Mouse?

How can I possibly get this for a Windows 10 PC?

Cool! Thanks for the video. I used to play this with my cousin for hours 😄

I remember seeing this in stores a lot and in magazines. Microillusions had some good Amiga games like Turbo and Firepower, had both of those.

How can you TAKE without using the Mouse?

I lived this game. I must of played it in the mid 80s. It was cool fighting people.

Loved this game so much in it's day. Many years later, I had the feeling that in "Diablo II - Act 2" there was a reminiscence of "Fairy Tale Adventures" last dungeon: A labyrinth in Space with an endboss.

In the final area he appears to be being attacked by pieces of the old fashioned Electronic Arts logo...

I remember buying this game for £50! Such a great game. There was a cheat where you summon the sea Tuttle and you can attack it without hurting it but earn bravery. Makes you practically invincible.

@iamironclaw

7 жыл бұрын

Yup but was nothing I wanted to do as I don't use exploits/cheats in my longplays (only some save-states, which is allowed).

My favourite ever Amiga game. In my opinion the second best RPG of all time behind Crono Trigger.

Skills! I never completed this. How do you know exactly where to go?

This game deserves a modern remake.

@litjellyfish

2 ай бұрын

Actually this could be a good remake. So you envision as a visually and game play balance updated 2D version or as same but in 3rd person 3d viewpoint ?

I remember playing through this. Christ! I blew £500 on an Amiga and still had to plug it in to the telly

Loved this game so much but only completed it when Commodore User (or an other mag) printed a walkthrough. A classic.

How could you tell your health? Maybe I'm missing something because I'm colorblind but I don't see any health charts/data/etc.

@iamironclaw

7 жыл бұрын

Well, I wrote this in the video description: Brv = Bravery: The more you have, the harder you are to hit I think, also when you get bravery points you now and then get Vit (vitality) points aswell, which is your health. Lck = Luck: Your lives. Whenever you die you lose 5 Luck. When you are down to zero you will continue playing as one of the other brothers (as seen in the intro). Didn't pay attention when I tried to see what happened when I lost all luck, so either everything resets and you get to play with another character, or you keep what you've done so far (stats, items....) + play with another character. In Hemsath's Tomb you only lose 3 luck or something when dying.

@bacarlson991

2 жыл бұрын

@@iamironclaw Thank you!

16 people only had dirks

@MarkHenryC

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, clearly sword envy

I only heard of this game yesterday… shows how a lot of the achievements of microcomputers are being forgotten and buried underneath their brethren on consoles, handhelds, and arcades… and that’s a shame.

i think only few reached the end of this game with my amiga many years ago , i ever loved it :)

I remember going into the tiny (!) mountains and finding a cave with a dragon in it.. Brilliant times. Early daze.

yeah this and ultima 7, which came later, but i think both for different reasons, can be considered the true ancestors of open-world rpg's. this one's a little rough around the edges replayed today, but ultima 7 holds up as well as it did the day it was released. both are major influences on my childhood. fairytale in particular was years and 1000's of hours of my early years on the amiga 1000.

This and Ultima 7 will forever be the best RPG games.

What was that glitch Ironclaw used at 2:35:45? Did it really make all the doors to the statue in the Tombs of Hemsath open of their own accord? If it does, it's a pretty insane glitch...