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Posted: Oct 13 2008 04:25 am

Anyone ever play the game Heroquest? It had for characters an Elf, Barbarian, Dwarf, and Wizard. (How racist is making two classes out of races?) The game also had expansion packs and was quite a feat for MB at the time (IMHO). I remember going the whole way to South Carolina, from Pencilvania, when I was 11 to get one of the expansions - Return of the Witch Lord. My father was a saint for that.

I even made my own expansion based on Final Fantasy and the four Fiends. Used the Chaos Warriors and gave them ridiculous stats to beat. Also incorporated the use of player-used Chaos Magic.

Anyway, any fond mammaries out there?

Posted: Oct 13 2008 07:51 am

This was an excellent game, but if you were driving FROM Pennsylvania, thus presumably you lived there, how could you spell your own state's name so wrong?

Posted: Oct 13 2008 09:07 am

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

This was an excellent game, but if you were driving FROM Pennsylvania, thus presumably you lived there, how could you spell your own state's name so wrong?

Yes, I live/lived there. Thank the public education. I also can't spell 'chrysanthemum', dammit.

Posted: Oct 13 2008 10:57 am

On the bright side, at since you spelled it using the word pencil, at least you didn't spell it pensil.

Joined: Aug 05 2008 Location: CA Posts: 867

Yeah I remember that game. It had little tables, weapon racks and book shevles to put in different places. Also, I remember me and my brother used to pronounce the "Choas Knight" figures as Cha - os, pronouncing the Ch like in "chalk".

Posted: Oct 13 2008 11:56 am

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

On the bright side, at since you spelled it using the word pencil, at least you didn't spell it pensil.

LOL. To be frank - no, I don't want to be Frank - the spelling 'Pencilvania' is derived from colonial accounts of Pennsylvania and was used on maps and such during said colonial period. Stupid me, it stuck.

Posted: Oct 14 2008 01:13 am

Fortune Smiles wrote:

Anyone ever play the game Heroquest? It had for characters an Elf, Barbarian, Dwarf, and Wizard. (How racist is making two classes out of races?)

I remember wanting to play this so bad when I saw the commercials for it. As for the races being classes thing, it was just something they borrowed from the original edition of Dungeons & Dragons.

Posted: Oct 16 2008 01:55 pm

Oh wow, this game was great. I had the Barbarian all decked out, in fact me and my drummer got an expansion kit for the game off of ebay, it was the shit.

Posted: Nov 01 2008 09:40 am

lordsathien wrote:

Fortune Smiles wrote:

Anyone ever play the game Heroquest? It had for characters an Elf, Barbarian, Dwarf, and Wizard. (How racist is making two classes out of races?)

I remember wanting to play this so bad when I saw the commercials for it. As for the races being classes thing, it was just something they borrowed from the original edition of Dungeons & Dragons.

Awesome fact, thanks for sharing that.

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I love your avatar. I killed many brain cells blowing into NES carts.

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Your political signature sums things up as well.
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Posted: Nov 19 2008 06:33 pm

I bought it at a garage sale about a decade ago. It was awesome. I'm sure it still is, but I haven't played in eight of those ten years.

Posted: Nov 20 2008 02:49 am

Yea, it was great becuase you could just pick it up and play and instantly have a good time.
Yet, if you dedicated the time, it was surprisingly deep and rewarding.

Posted: Nov 25 2008 07:42 am

Yes this was a great game! I still remember clearly the birthday that I received HeroQuest from my uncle and I remember thinking what a huge and epic game it was. It took about 2 hours to set up for the first time and go through the rules which is always the mark of a legendary board game.

On a side note, the first few expansions are quite rare these days, so if you still have them laying around in good shape, keep a hold of them! I'm sure the first edition of the game itself is also worth keeping for it's value.

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Nov 25 2008 02:11 pm

I think my buddy that has Settlers also has this game. Haven't played it yet...

Posted: Dec 22 2008 12:40 am

I had this game as well when I was 11 back in 1991. I never really figured out how to play it though. I did like all the mini-action figures it came with though.

Posted: May 18 2009 06:26 pm

IceWarm wrote:

I had this game as well when I was 11 back in 1991. I never really figured out how to play it though. I did like all the mini-action figures it came with though.

I actually painted them all when I got into my "collectible paintable-figures" phase. I can reminisce about Warhammer and D&D figures, but I won't. Heroquest was a good game, it taught me the word "imbued," via the chaos zombie, and for that, I thank it.

Posted: May 19 2009 11:40 am

I wasted so much time of my youth painting Eldar and Space Marines for Warhammer 40K.

The figures were soo sick though...

Posted: May 19 2009 12:30 pm

Andrew Man wrote:

I wasted so much time of my youth painting Eldar and Space Marines for Warhammer 40K.

The figures were soo sick though...

Impressive painting job if those are yours.

Posted: May 19 2009 01:43 pm

They are not, haha, just using them for example. Mine were badass though, I will see if I can find any. They kind of had the Braveheart white and blue theme going on.

Joined: Mar 13 2009 Location: Arlington Posts: 467

I remember the commercial for this game on tv, but my only experience with this is is when Quest for Glory 1 was called "Hero's Quest" by Sierra before they got sued.

Posted: May 29 2009 02:14 am

Thorton02 wrote:

I remember the commercial for this game on tv, but my only experience with this is is when Quest for Glory 1 was called "Hero's Quest" by Sierra before they got sued.

I forgot that, about the commercials. I remember the commercials for Secret of Mana....

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: May 29 2009 03:30 am

This is a game that I remember fondly until I sit down to play it. Still, good times.

BTW, Ding!

Posted: Aug 19 2009 09:23 pm

UsaSatsui wrote:

This is a game that I remember fondly until I sit down to play it. Still, good times.

BTW, Ding!

Thanks for the link. Heroquest, I guess, was my attempt to make up for D&D, as I had been born in the 80s. Great game anyways, and I will be glad to play its computerized version. Freakin' zombies are one bite away from STD!

Posted: Feb 18 2010 10:01 pm

http://www.reloaded.org/download/HeroQuest/145/

Thanks for that link. I enjoyed playing HeroQuest again. In the age of boardgames, for me, when I had HQ and AD&D, I appreciated this game a lot. Thanks for the PC compatible version.

Posted: Feb 19 2010 12:19 pm

You necroed a thread to pretty much repeat what you said when you necroed it last August?

Posted: Feb 19 2010 07:38 pm

jackfrost wrote:

You necroed a thread to pretty much repeat what you said when you necroed it last August?

That's right. What, you guys didn't know that?