Hello everyone this is ricardo and welcome to Golden Axe which is today's offering
from retro game plays a retro game plays theory I've been developing since I
found we're sorry SP at the Attic so golden axe is a side-scrolling hack and
slash game that was released in 1989 by Sega and within arcade everywhere
especially in the UK the game places the player in control one of three warriors
each spent on revenge against the vile dictator Death Adder now on this screen
I've got picture in picture at the character selection and the first couple
of levels of gameplay that's the purpose of this demonstration I'm going to be
using the dwarf okay and I think he's one of the best characters absolutely
fantastic whereas the other characters happen to be curious Flair who is an
Amazon who wheels a massive sort whilst wearing chainmail bikini braces and red
boots you can see where she'd appeal to certain people both her parents have
murdered by death adders forces meeting at a seek revenge in the first Golden
Axe game her magic attacks are all fire based including the summoning as a giant
and a slain spewing dragon tirus has the shortest range of the heroes with her
attacks but possesses the most powerful spells now that the war I've adopted for
this mission is Gilles Thunderhead and he's a bigot of wolf as we can see
actually commands the golden axe he wears a green tunic leather boots and a
horned helmet he seeks revenge in Golden Axe after his brother is murdered by
death at his forces returning again to defeat that rules in golden axe to sow
death add it was a tyrannical giant who wears a full iron helmet pointed
spaulders and we observe almost double act they didn't do his brutal strength
and speed while attacking you can also cast magical spells and with an army
enslave the kingdom of golden axe and kidnap its royal family
so after dispatching his minions Adler is then finally killed by the games
three heroes but is then resurrected for Golden Axe the revenge of Death Adder
the last protagonist is acts battle in Iraq's battler is a barbarian hirako
he's the Claymore whilst wearing a loincloth and blue boots as well as I
embraces and a gorget he calls upon volcanic magic is his spell of choice
deploying lava and powerful eruptive blasts axes mother is murdered by death
at his forces providing his motive in the original golden axe axe was also
given a solo game for Sega Game Gear cycle axe battler The Legend of golden
axe in which he charged with saving another Kingdom battle area is the most
balanced character having a better striking range and less spell power than
Pyrrhus at the Amazon warrior and more powerful magic but not the extended
physical reach of gillis our dwarf so in the picture in picture you can see the
gameplay is closely following the gameplay in the main screen so we have D
barbarian on the top left hand side and the Amazon warrior serious on the top
right so as you mentioned the walk wields an axe and has the longest range
that is actually the golden axe though i do find the Amazon warrior perhaps I
would say the more all-rounded character as regards to what is stated as the bad
bits they are thirion being the most all rounded character so progress is made
through the game by hacking and slashing your way through adders forces as we can
see and you can write beasts on the screen now you can see little elves who
pop out with sax hit those elves and you can get magic potions get to magic
potions and analyse magic death on all your enemies especially very useful when
it gets us some end and mid-level bosses
so as I mentioned the magic bars are filled by attacking usable dwarfs or
servants or traders picking up there blue magic potions best filling up your
magic / so Gilles of the wharf is limited free verse and cat lightning
spell the female warrior on the top right hand side Paris can cast
devastating fire magic the her most powerful spells cost six bars as a hell
of a lot of potions an axe he's able to cast these earth spells and he's limited
to four birds for his most powerful magic attack so you can see that serious
has the most devastating magical attack of the game now as you can see I've been
knocked off my beast and it's been pinched by one of the orcs or soldiers
but you can hit them and get it back after well that beast will get bored and
then run off so the tail swipe on this piece is quite good other beasts thing
could include fire-breathing dragons much like a flamethrower approach or
another dragon that fliers flaming balls
and I'm on the Atari ST the game constantly loads as you progressed which
does lead to some delays as you can see we've got some lost level people here
some green giant keeps wiping them with your animals pale until you get knocked
off like i have but then the golden axe wielded by gilles does make short work
of these attackers just by repeating ly hitting the button it's not the way to
get through golden axe leaving a pause can give way to special moves you can
also do flying kicks or a running recharge jumping up while pressing the
button gives a large chopping effect to get those bigger enemies so this level
here is where the little servants or or peddlers come along and you can give
them a good kick or a pinch so they can drop more magic potions less
replenishing your magic now in between levels we're getting a little bit of
story
you know unfortunately that has and go through the entire game though that
would be quite long as my second disc is corrupted summit run find a second disk
somewhere in the top left you can see me testing out the barbarians volcanic
spell and as it walk it off till more battling as the game progresses you then
met by Green merchant now the green merchants dropped food the food then
replenishes the gems that depict your health on the bottom left hand side of
the screen so you can only have a maximum of three health gems at any one
time now Golden Axe gave way inevitably two sequels that being golden axe to
each of the heroes from the first game return to battle the forces of the evil
villain ruined in this sequel while golden axe to was a mega drive/genesis
exclusive from a development point of view it's a limited arcade exposure many
video game magazines at the time expressed the game was very lightly
rushed into production to build on the success of the first one and make more
money so following that in 1992 Golden Axe The Revenge of Death Adder was
released by Sega despite its popularity the game remains an arcade exclusive as
of this date and hasn't made it to the console only the dwarf Gillis
Thunderhead major returned ride him the back of a new character that Goa the
giant the rest of the class is all new and include stern blade the barbarian
Dora the female scent or little tricks a young lad who carries a pitchfork the
main enemy once again is death adder
The Revenge of Death Adder was the only Golden Axe game in which one of the
magic attacks was not offensive as little tricks grew apples with fruit
that replenished health so apple trees popped up that'll apples came off you
picked up the apples there was your health at the game then death other
writers one more time Gillis sacrificed his life finally to end others and
during the ends and I'm cinematic Gillis is shown a bar with every other
character and a banner appeared saying see you next game so that then led the
Golden Axe 3 which is released in 1993 a few weeks after the Revenge of Death
Adder the third golden axe game on the Mega Drive was released only in Japan so
if you would see in this color in his country it would have been a Japanese
import however on the xbox 360 in that generation of consoles saw another
Golden Axe game appear Golden Axe beast rider and featured the return of Pirus
Claire our amazon that we can see in the top right hand corner of the screen so
that was released in 2008 spin-offs included Golden Axe warrior on the Sega
Master System which is another epic tale of the Golden Axe 0 it's an
action-adventure similar to The Legend of Zelda acts batla a legend of golden
axe was released for the sega game gear and like its console come to pass it was
based on more zelda to the adventure of link than the original game golden axe
the jaws released in 1994 in the arcades and then in 1995 on the Sega Saturn
golden axe for jewel is a one-on-one fighting game that those feature
characters who appear to be descendants of some of the characters in the
original game
now you can see on the screen I'm battling here suddenlink liara jason and
the argonauts that's being a skeleton with a shield and a scimitar and a
female barbarian as well so as the game progresses I think quite say me but rich
gameplay very difficult I think in the arcades I didn't progress much further
than I think this point in the arcade from putting your own money in so I
think it's quite a true-to-life representation on the Atari ST again
we've got the green imps and the blue is the green ones dropping health and the
blue ones dropping potions
as the level finishes we now move on to the last level of this section of the
game that was able to load on disk one of golden axe this level does see a few
different monsters and beef stew right
and here we go and see just go through a town eventually once we cross a bridge
now here is a blue fire breathing or fireball breathing dragon but using the
dwarf lightning spells does make short work of them so in sometimes you cannot
get on to those additional beasts
jumping on the Atari ST I find is also very difficult and does there is a knack
of doing it with an aging joystick as well things can be quite precarious
especially in this section of the game though with tim is flared the Amazon
warrior jumping I thought at this stage was easier now you can see I've I have I
made it on a in the middle I don't know no I've died so that cost me a life but
now the game is refreshed it scrolled over a little bit more and I'll be able
to jump over once these curtains fall to their death
again more chance to pick up magic now the wharf is making short work at these
blue chainmail clad warriors female warriors with axes no doubt
now we're progressing we've got more Giants with massive club like hammers to
defeat don't really want to use magic at this stage as they're quite simple to
beat without resorting to using the special weapon there's one enemy down
now by giving him the benefit of our Dwarfs acts you should make short work
of him
I'm develop on more magic and whether there was one or two players of you you
still get the same amount of imps so the pressure was on in a two-player mode
game that you had to get your full benefit of kicking that one particular
imp
this three on one battle come through to be a bit tricky although what's coming
up does prove to be so much trickier
repeated curtain brush bashing here will get you through them
moreloading from the atari st then we connect the final end of level boss
which happened just before the game crashed fortunately I've got three magic
put my three bears and my magic potions I can instigate that magic potion
casting spell and bring lightning down on them all it's just finally getting
the space so that you're able to do it
this is the lightning and he's done for
now we're given the opportunity again to increase our powers once again picking
up food increases your health and kicking the Blue Ridge increases the
magic spells so that was it from me from golden axe before the game crashes I put
the second disc in I've been recurred when this has been my retro gaming
series and thanks for joining me on the past 18 minutes see you soon