POLL: Favorite Gold-Box Game?

[ghaaroth]

My point was that the game (yes, the game being Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday) is for the Genesis, not for the NES.

Ah, got it. Those consoles, they are all the same to me

[Kaz-Keith]

Quite so. Order of the Griffon plays like a typical low-level GB game, while Warriors of Eternal Sun is sort of a cross between Dark Sun and Eye of the Beholder (IIRC it had turn-based tactical combat for outdoors in 3rd person, yet realtime combat indoors in 1st person, go figure what they thought)

Agreed - what was the deal with picking your party members from a preset roster for Order of the Griffon?  I remember the same gimmick with Dungeon Master(s), but I am a visual person and mostly picked due to the picture of the character rather than from all the noisy numbers and whatnot, resulting in a less-than-stellar party roster.  The magical items you could find/buy were pretty neat, as were the monster types that you encountered.  My favorite combat encounter was the one where one of the many antagonists freed the zoo creatures which then promptly attacked you and each other in mass.  Quite a fight. 

[ghaaroth]

Agreed - what was the deal with picking your party members from a preset roster for Order of the Griffon?

In an age when they made you write down "level codes" for games rather than save their state, I guess a honest character generator couldn't be present in a game not running on a real computer

Now, why those games were never released for PC, beats me.

[Olivier Leroux]

I am a visual person and mostly picked due to the picture of the character rather than from all the noisy numbers and whatnot, resulting in a less-than-stellar party roster.

  I can totally relate to that. Looks like Eye of the Griffon was using EOB character portraits, btw.