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I was just playing this and King of Dragons on PSP over the weekend. Fun games both.

I remember playing the SNES version of Knights of the Round a good deal at a friend's house. Fun time.

I loved Shadow Over Mystara, quarter munching and all. I think having a group of friends who actually had a campaign set in Mystara didn't hurt increasing my love of the game, though.

Another inexplicable gameplay mechanic in Knights of the Round:

The slow, strong character (Percival) has a dash.

The other two characters do not.

Percival also gains momentum while walking, to the point where he can outrun both the "balanced" character (Arthur) and the "weak, fast character" (Lancelot) over long distances.

Percival's jump attack also deals heavy damage, whereas Arthur and Lancelot have weak jump attacks.

Basically, if you don't play as Percival, you are at a huge disadvantage.

I remember fighting over who got to play Percival in the SNES game.

As he levels up, Percival also goes bald and grows a goatee. That one always made me laugh.

Yeah the two arcade D&Ds were tons better than King of Dragons or Knights of the Round.

But man the D&D series was a ridiculous quarter muncher.

King of Dragons was at least possible to one-credit once you knew the boss attack patterns.

There was a local Putt-Putt place that used to have Shadow over Mystara. I think it took me about $15 in quarters to beat it back in the day.



Tower of Doom was a little easier, but I still remember dumping tons of money into it to beat it.

I remember they had it at a "Q-Zar" laser-tag center.

The other games there were Mortal Kombat II and NBA Jam TE.

Good times.

Originally Posted by YellerDog

Every time I think about Knights of the Round, my mind jumps automatically to how much better Mysteria is.

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Every time I think about Knights of the Round, my mind jumps automatically to how much better Mysteria is.

It's more or less on the same level as the first D&D game, though!

Interesting note about the scoring system:

You receive a bonus for killing consecutive enemies of the same type. I did not know that until reading it online.

Perhaps the score multiplier lets you level up faster, making the difficulty more manageable.

I still prefer King of Dragons between the two games, though.