#WARCRAFT II TIDES OF DARKNESS

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USA 1997

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Back Cover to AI Art Season 2 Compilation Part 2

Older video games were notorious for back cover descriptions that have nothing to do with the game so let's see what a text-to-image generator makes of these descriptions. 

Season 2 of Back Cover to AI Art consists of a total of 54 issues With the majority being single-game entries, a handful will have multiple games covered with some being collections of games or trilogy releases. 

1. Intro 00:00 

2. Conquered Kingdoms Scenario Disk 1 (MS-DOS) 00:10 

3. WarCraft II Tides of Darkness (MS-DOS) 02:42 

4. Baldur's Gate II Shadows of Amn (Windows) 05:25 

5. Ultima Online (Windows) 08:09 

6. Lemmings 2 The Tribes (SNES) 10:51 

7. Airball (Amiga) 13:34 

8. Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings (Wii) 16:27 

9. Mario Hoops 3 on 3 (Nintendo DS) 19:10 

10. Bedlam (PlayStation) 21:53 

11. Rama (MS-DOS) 24:35 

12. NHL 2001 (PlayStation) 27:18 

13. Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces (DOS & Macintosh) 30:01 

14. The Bureau XCOM Declassified (Windows) 33:04 

15. Rogue (Atari ST) 35:46 

16. Wargame Construction Set (Commodore 64) 38:30 

17. Championship Surfer (Dreamcast) 41:12 

18. The Prophecy (MS-DOS) 43:55 

19. Zone of the Enders (PlayStation 2) 46:38 

20. Avalon Hill's Squad Leader (Windows) 49:21 

21. Wetlands (MS-DOS) 52:03 

22. Varicella (Linux, MS-DOS, Windows, Windows 3,x, Browser) 54:46 

23. Outro 57:17

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Season 2 of Back Cover to AI Art

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List of Video Games Turning 30 Years Old in 2024

Aggressors of Dark Kombat (what if Mortal Kombat was made by the KoF devs?)

Alone in the Dark 2

Art of Fighting 2

Beneath a Steel Sky (a highly influential point and click adventure game from the same team that would go on to make Broken Sword)

Blackthorne (a 2D platformer made by Blizzard)

Breath of Fire (the 1st one)

Bubsy 2

Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales

Bust-a-Move (known as "Puzzle Bobble" in Japan)

Castlevania: Bloodlines

Contra: Hard Corps (the first game in the series to have multiple endings)

Cosmology of Kyoto

The Death and Return of Superman (a side scrolling beat 'em up made by Blizzard)

Demon's Crest

Donkey Kong (the Game boy version of the arcade original)

Donkey Kong Country

Doom II: Hell on Earth

Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls (as opposed to a beat ‘em up like the other four games were, this one was a fighting game)

Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom

Dynamite Headdy

Earthworm Jim (with music from Tommy Tallarico. His mother is very proud.)

Ecco: The Tides of Time

The Elder Scrolls Arena (the very 1st one)

Final Fantasy VI

Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (the 3rd one)

Ghoul Patrol (the sequel to "Zombies Ate My Neighbors")

Heretic

The Horde (a hybrid action/strategy game made by Toys for Bob, who are known nowadays for making Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time)

Illusion of Gaia

Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures

Killer Instinct

The King of Fighters '94

King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride

Live a Live (the original version, which went unreleased in North America. We wouldn’t get this game until the HD-2D remake 28 years later)

Majin Tensei (a strategy spin-off of the greater Shin Megami Tensei franchise)

Marathon (one of the earliest games made by Bungie)

Mega Man 6

Mega Man Soccer

Mega Man V (on the Game Boy)

Mega Man X

Mortal Kombat II

The Need for Speed (the very 1st one)

Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (as an empath, seeing Pac-Man in pain makes me feel sick)

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

Pocky & Rocky 2

Policenauts (a visual novel and one of the earlier works from Hideo Kojima)

Rise of the Robots (often considered one of the worst fighting games ever made)

Robotrek

Samurai Shodown II

Shadowrun (the Sega Genesis version)

Shaq Fu (also often considered one of the worst fighting games ever made)

Shin Megami Tensei II (which, to this day, has never been officially released outside of Japan)

Shin Megami Tensei If... (also never officially released outside of Japan)

Shining Force II

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (just in time for the third movie)

Sparkster

Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage

Star Wars: TIE Fighter

Streets of Rage 3

Super Adventure Island II

Super Metroid

Super Punch-Out!!

Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (this release saw the first playable appearances of T. Hawk, Fei Long, Dee Jay, and Cammy)

Super Street Fighter II Turbo (saw the series’ first secret character, Akuma)

System Shock (a remake came out very recently. It's quite good!)

Ultima VIII: Pagan

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (the very 1st one)

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

X-COM: UFO Defense (the 1st game in the series)

Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (one of the last first-party releases for the NES)

Zool 2

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“I come to serve”

Elven Archer

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (1995)

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"Mission Craft is a top-down vertically scrolling shooter that makes extensive use of graphics of the first StarCraft game and music from WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness. The player flies the titular Mission Craft (actually a Typhoon) destroying Terran, Zerg and Protoss targets and units. The craft's firepower is upgraded with power-ups which allow a more bullets to fire and additional missiles. Bombs can also be used to destroy groups of opponents or otherwise inflict heavy damage."

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Top 5 favorite video games!

I'm gonna be honest, I completely forgot that I had this ask 😭

Ok so:

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

Dragon Age II

Mass Effect 2

Baldur's Gate 3

And honestly probably World of Warcraft

A lot of sequels going on here lmao. No matter how much Warcraft upsets me, it's still going to be in my top 5 games 💖

ask me my top 5 anything

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I am sorry, but this screen shot never fails to make me double over laughing.

Give Tech a beard, a shaved head, and a old All-Blacks hoodie and you have my engineer husband TO THE T.

From the cheekbones to the eyes wide with—fear? Horror? Angst? Disgust?—Tech might as well be asking me if I did the dishes the night before.

When has my husband made this face? Whe was leaving? Off to fight? Nah.

He’s made this face when:

- I wore a Free People wrap that I thought was pretty, but it was identical to his grandma’s favorite scarf.

-He found out I threw out his Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness guide from 1997.

- He caught me reading ‘Riding the Headless Horseman’ (now available on Kindle!) at the kitchen table while eating cereal.

- I put teriyaki sauce on my steak (it was a skirt steak, come ON).

- He found me and my SIL giggling over terrible Dragon Age fanfics while chugging Chucky Shaw on a family vacation in the Hudson Valley. Yeah, only the finest of nerdy ladies may marry into this family.

- When I asked him not to run off with any pirates or smugglers

Ah, romance. 10/10.

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Retro Gaming 90's- WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness: (1995)

Retro Gaming 90’s- WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness: (1995)

Its no secret that the WarCraft series has been around for a very long time now. In fact, its hard to believe that the series started back in ’94 with WarCraft Orcs & Humans which appeared on MS-DOS along with PC. While the first ever WarCraft game was ahead of its time and felt like a pioneer within the real-time strategy genre the sequel that came out in ’95 known as WarCraft II: Tides of…

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USA 1997

[theowlhousefanboy]

A Personal List of Video Games That Might Be Deemed as Obsolete If Not Inferior Compared to Its "Modernized" Follow-Ups:

Wolfenstein 3D < Return to Castle Wolfenstein and The New Order+The Old Blood; also, the likes of the entirety of Doom

Warcraft: Orcs and Humans < II: Tides of Darkness+Beyond the Dark Portal and III: Reign of Chaos+The Frozen Throne

Star Wars: X-Wing < TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance

Age of Empires < Age of Empires II and Age of Mythology

System Shock < System Shock 2; also, its own Enhanced Edition (with maybe the upcoming Remake)

Hitman: Codename 47 < Hitman 2: Silent Assassin onwards

Titanfall < Titanfall 2 (and even Apex Legends)

Star Control < Star Control II/The Ur-Quan Masters

Outpost < Outpost 2: Divided Destiny

The Marathon Trilogy < their Aleph One releases; also, the Halo games arguably up to Reach

Medieval: Total War and Shogun: Total War < Medieval II: Total War+Kingdoms and Total War: Shogun 2; also, Rome: Total War and Total War: Rome II

The entire Police Quest series up to SWAT 2 < S.W.A.T. 3: Close Quarters Battle and 4+The Stetchkov Syndicate

Silent Hunter I and II < III and 4: Wolves of the Pacific+The U-Boat Missions

Shadowrun Returns < Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut and Hong Kong: Extended Edition

Zone of the Enders < The 2nd Runner

Meat Boy < Super Meat Boy

Saints Row < Saints Row 2 onwards

Just Cause < Just Cause 2

Hexagon < Super Hexagon

Dune II < its Command and Conquer spiritual successors.

(In the meantime, in case there are readers interested in this, feel free to comment on games that fit the criteria that I haven't put on the list either because of tag limitations, not ever playing them, or not remembering them.)

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Back Cover to AI Art S2E19 - WarCraft II Tides of Darkness

Older video games were notorious for back cover descriptions that have nothing to do with the game so let's see what a text-to-image generator makes of these descriptions. Season 2 sees an increase in art creations for each game up from 1 in the first season to 6 for the second season 

1. Intro - 00:00 

2. Back Cover and Text Description - 00:10 

3. Creation 1 - 00:30 

4. Creation 2 - 00:50 

5. Creation 3 - 01:10 

6. Creation 4 - 01:30 

7. Creation 5 - 01:50 

8. Creation 6 - 02:10 

9. Outro – 02:30 

WarCraft II Tides of Darkness is a fantasy real-time strategy game developed and published by Blizzard and is the sequel to 1994s WarCraft: Orcs & Humans. WarCraft II Tides of Darkness released first for DOS in 1995 with a Mac release the following year. 

Console releases of Warcraft II are unrelated to Blizzard, with the company selling the rights to develop, publish and distribute the console versions of the game to EA, with the EA version being titled WarCraft II The Dark Saga, this released on the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1997. 

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Season 2 of Back Cover to AI Art

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Топ по годам

Сначала указаны игры, которые мне удалось пройти и оценить. Полужирным выделены игры, на которые следует обратить особое внимание.

После этого курсивом выделены игры, в которые мне не удалось поиграть, но хотелось бы или которые, на мой взгляд, оказали сильное влияние на индустрию.

В топе не учитывались дополнения и DLC, за исключением некоторых, позиционирующихся самостоятельными играми. В дальнейшем этот пункт может быть пересмотрен. Также, некоторые крупные игры отсутствуют в списке, поскольку не вызывают у меня никакого интереса. Если не нашли важную игру, но считаете необходимым включить её в этот топ - пишите в комменты.

Топ будет дополняться и исправляться по мере выхода и прохождения игр или по иным причинам.

Можете поделиться своим топом или впечатлениями в комментах.

1987

Final Fantasy

Zelda II: The Adventures of Link

Contra

Double Dragon

1988

Final Fantasy II

Wasteland

1989

DuckTales

Prince of Persia

Golden Axe

1990

The Secret of Monkey Island

Chip ’n Dale Rescue Rangers

Final Fantasy III

Dr. Mario

Dragon's Lair

1991

Sonic the Hedgehog

Battletoads

Streets of Rage

Road Rash

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Final Fantasy IV

Final Fantasy Adventure

Golden Axe II

Another World

1992

Streets of Rage 2

Wolfenstein 3D

Final Fantasy V

1993

Disney's Aladdin

Doom

The Legend of Zelda: Linl's Awakining

Secret of Mana

Sam & Max Hit the Road

1994

DOOM II: Hell on Earth

The Lion King

Earthworm Jim

Final Fantasy VI

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans

System Shock

1995

Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness

Comix Zone

Star Wars: Dark Forces

Chrono Trigger

Full Throttle

1996

Quake

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain

Duke Nukem 3D

Resident Evil

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

Tomb Raider

Diablo

The Neverhood

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

1997

Final Fantasy VII

Fallout

Star Wars: Dark Forces II

Quake II

Blood

Age of Empires

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

MDK

Shadow Warrior

Postal

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

1998

StarCraft

Half-Life

Unreal

Grim Fandango

Fallout 2

Baldur's Gate

Xenogears

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Parasite Eve

Shogo: Mobile Army Division

Blood II: The Chosen

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines

1999

Heroes of Might and Magic III

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

Unreal Tournament

Planescape: Torment

Silent Hill

Final Fantasy VIII

System Shock 2

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

Shenmue

2000

Diablo II

Deus Ex

The Sims

Hitman: Codename 47

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

Final Fantasy IX

The Operative: No One Lives Forever

Vagrant Story

MDK 2

American McGee's Alice

2001

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Max Payne

Halo: Combat Evolved

Serious Sam: The First Encounter

Grand Theft Auto III

Silent Hill 2

Devil May Cry

Final Fantasy X

Red Faction

Black & White

Ico

Onimusha: Warlords

Aliens vs. Predator 2

Shennmue II

Clive Barker's Undying

2002

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

Dungeon Siege

Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Neverwinter Knights

Freedom Force

No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way

Resident Evil

2003

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Beyond Good & Evil

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

Need for Speed: Underground

Freedom Fighters

Call of Duty

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Manhunt

2004

Half-Life 2

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

Sacred

Doom 3

Need for Speed: Underground 2

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

Unreal Tournament 2004

Star Wars: Battlefront

The Sims 2

Halo 2

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

Far Cry

Sid Meier's Pirates!

Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines

The Suffering

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth

Painkiller

Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault

2005

Star Wars: Republic Commando

Jade Empire

Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones

Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Lego Star Wars

Farhenheit

Call of Duty 2

Age of Empires II

Resident Evil 4

Shadow of the Colossus

Psychonauts

Quake 4

F.E.A.R.

God of War

Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30

Dungeon Siege II

Serious Sam II

2006

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Gears of War

Prey

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

Company of Heroes

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II

Final Fantasy XII

Tomb Raider: Legend

2007

BioShock

Assassin's Creed

Mass Effect

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

The Witcher

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Portal

Crysis

Halo 3

World in Conflict

Stranglehold

Hellgate: London

Timeshift

2008

Grand Theft Auto IV

Gears of War 2

Dead Space

Prince of Persia

Bully

Fallout 3

Spore

Far Cry 2

2009

Assassin's Creed II

Dragon Age: Origins

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Bayonetta

Halo 3: ODST

2010

Red Dead Redemption

StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty

Mass Effect 2

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Fallout: New Vegas

Sid Meier's Civilization V

Shank

Alan Wake

Limbo

Call of Duty: Black Ops

BioShock 2

Halo: Reach

Metro 2033

Darksiders

Medal of Honor

Vanquish

Alpha Protocol

2011

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Dragon Age II

Rayman Origins

Gears of War 3

Bastion

Portal 2

Assassin's Creed: Revelations

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Dead Space 2

Crysis 2

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

L.A. Noire

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch

2012

1. Max Payne 3 2. Far Cry 3 3. Spec Ops: The Line 4. Sleeping Dogs 5. Hotline Miami 6. Dishonored 7. Diablo III 8. Mass Effect 3

The Walking Dead: The Game

Journey

Mark of the Ninja

Assassin's Creed III

Halo 4

2013

1. Rayman Legends 2. BioShock Infinite 3. The Last of Us 4. Tomb Raider 5. Brother's: A Tale of Two Sons 6. Grand Theft Auto V

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

The Stanley Parable

Metro: Last Light

Rogue Legacy

The Wolf Among Us

2014

Wolfenstein: The New Order

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Far Cry 4

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

South Park: The Stick of Truth

The Banner Saga

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Transistor

The Evil Within

Assassin's Creed: Unity

Watch Dogs

Sunset Overdrive

2015

The Witcher III: Wild Hunt

Ori & The Blind Forest

Life is Strange

Mad Max

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Fallout 4

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Undertale

SOMA

Crypt of the NecroDancer

2016

Fury

Doom

Owlboy

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

Hyper Light Drifter

Firewatch

Final Fantasy XV

Inside

The Banner Saga 2

Titanfall 2

No Man's Sky

Gears of War 4

Quantum Break

The Last Guardian

Super Hot

Dishonored 2

Ratchet & Clank

2017

1. Assassin's Creed: Origins 2. Horizon: Zero Dawn 3. Cuphead 4. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Nier: Automata

Pyre

Little Nightmares

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

Middle-earth: Shadow of War

Prey

2018

1. Red Dead Redemption II 2. God of War 3. Assassin's Creed: Odyssey 4. Gris 5. Into the Breach

Return of the Obra Dinn

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom

A Way Out

The Messenger

Far Cry 5

Octopath Traveler

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Shadow of the Colossus

2019

A Plague Tale: Innocence

Death Stranding

Disco Elysium

The Outer Worlds

Katana ZERO

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Control

Resident Evil 2

2020

1. Ori & The Will of the Wisps 2. Desperados III 3. The Last of Us Part 2 4. Cyberpunk 2077 5. Doom Eternal

Ghost of Tsushima

Final Fantasy VII Remake

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

Yakuza: Like a Dragon

2021

The Forgotten City

The Artful Escape

It Takes Two

Deathloop

Halo Infinite

Psychonauts 2

Life is Strange: The True Colours

Far Cry 6

Kena: Bridge of Spirits

2022

Neon White

Stray

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Cultic

Starship Troopers: Terran Command

Horizon Forbidden West

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

2023

Baldur's Gate 3

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Diablo IV

Resident Evil 4

Dead Space (Remake)

Starfield

Alan Wake 2

Assassin's Creed Mirage

Hi-Fi Rush

Final Fantasy XVI

Hogwarts Legacy

Atomic Heart

RoboCop: Rogue City

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Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

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Кампания людей миссия 14 череда поражений 🎮 Warcraft II: Tides of Dark...

[worthplaying]

Blizzard Adds Classics Like Diablo, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans And Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness To Battle.net

http://dlvr.it/T24XGy

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703.) WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

Release: December 9th, 1995 | GGF: Real-Time Strategy, Real-Time Tactics | Developer(s): Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | Publisher(s): Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | Platform(s): DOS (1995), Macintosh (1996), PlayStation (1997), SEGA Saturn (1997), Windows (1999)