#WARCRAFT II TIDES OF DARKNESS

[retrocgads]

USA 1997

[z2z-gaming-and-random-art-ai]

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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[theguywithaplan]

List of Games Turning Thirty (30) Years Old in 2025

Battle Arena Toshinden (this was the very first 3D fighting game, and paved the way for games like Tekken and SoulCalibur).

Castlevania: Dracula X (a re-release of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood for the SNES).

Chrono Trigger (one of the best games ever made. with a dream team made up of Hironobu Sakaguchi [Final Fantasy], Yuji Horii [Dragon Quest], and Akira Toriyama [Dragon Ball]).

Comix Zone (a pretty fun side scrolling beat 'em up from Sega).

Command & Conquer (the first in the series).

Descent

Destruction Derby

The Dig (a really unique graphic adventure game from LucasArts).

Discworld (based on the setting made by Terry Pratchett).

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation (the last game in the Zenethian trilogy, and the last one to only release in Japan).

Fade to Black (a sequel to Flashback, which is a pioneer in the platformer genre).

Front Mission (the very first one. didn't release in the West until 2007).

Full Throttle (another LucasArts graphic adventure game centered around biker culture.)

Hexen: Beyond Heretic

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Jagged Alliance (another pioneer in the RTS genre)

Jumping Flash! (one of the very first 3D platformers, pre-dating Super Mario 64).

The King of Fighters '95

Kirby's Dream Land 2

Light Crusader (a really unique and interesting action-adventure fantasy game from the Sega Genesis).

Mario's Picross (is it pronounced "Pie-Cross" or Pih-Cross"?)

Marathon 2: Durandal (one of Bungie's earliest games)

Mega Man 7

Mortal Kombat 3

Panzer Dragoon

Phantasmagoria (yet another LucasArts graphic adventure game, this one centered on a haunted house. It had some pretty gnarly and gruesome death scenes. Look up at your own risk).

The PlayStation (the first one)

Rayman (RIP, Rayman. Ubisoft sucks too much to give you the support you deserve).

Ristar

Romancing SaGa 3

The Sega Saturn (it was supposed to launch in early September on a Saturday, dubbed "Saturnday". However, the PS1 was launching the same week and was $100 cheaper than the Saturn. So... Sega surprised launched the system at the very first E3).

Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier (the last game in a pretty silly and humorous series of graphic adventure games from Sierra Entertainment).

Star Wars: Dark Forces

Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dream (also known as Street Fighter Zero. It was a prequel to Street Fighter II and featured younger versions of already existing characters).

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (do you consider this a Mario game or a Yoshi game)

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (the English version of this game wouldn't release until 1998. Three years after the original version).

Tales of Phantasia (the first game in the Tales of series from Namco).

Terranigma (an awesome RPG from Enix that never released in North America)

Twisted Metal

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

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Sega Saturn - Warcraft II The Dark Saga

Title: Warcraft II The Dark Saga / ウォークラフトIIダークサーガ

Developer: Blizzard Entertainment / Davidson & Associates / Climax Group Limited

Publisher: Electronic Arts Victor

Release date: 27 November 1997

Catalogue No.: T-10623G

Genre: Real-Time Strategy

A combination of Warcraft II Tides of Darkness, along with its expansion pack Beyond the Dark Portal. Play the classic PC game on your TV, no installation of DOSbox or running an old computer required! This Saturn console translation of Warcraft II is good even though it doesn't have the awesome multi-player capability that made it so popular in PC gaming circles. To make up for the loss, extra mission discs and a scenario creator have been added, making the game an exceptional value. Warcraft II's gameplay will satisfy any real-time strategy fan and (surprisingly enough), the Saturn controller isn't too hindering for a game that begs for a keyboard and mouse. Although the graphics aren't too impressive, they do the job. The audio, however, is top-notch. The high-quality medieval music is superb and sets the mood perfectly. For real-time strategy game fans, it doesn't get much better than this.

[dailyvideogamecharacters]

“I come to serve”

Elven Archer

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (1995)

Follow my new Twitter Account where I post Video Game Voice Lines here:

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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."

[blightweave]

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

[talesfrommedinastation]

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.

[diesel292]

Dun Morogh, Durotar, Elwynn Forest, Mulgore, Teldrassil, Tirisfal Glades, Darkshore, Loch Modan, Silverpine Forest, Westfall, North Barrens, South Barrens, Redridge Mountains, Stonetalon Mountains, Ashenvale, Duskwood, Wetlands, Hillsbrad Foothills, Thousand Needles, Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands, Desolace, Stranglethorn Vale, Dustwallow Marsh, Badlands, Swamp of Sorrows, Feralas, Hinterlands, Tanaris, Searing Gorge, Azshara, Blasted Lands, Un’Goro Crater, Felwood,  Burning Steppes, Western Plaguelands, Eastern Plaguelands, Winterspring, Deadwind Pass, Moonglade, Silithus, Hellfire Peninsula, Zangarmarsh, Terokkar Forest, Nagrand, Blade’s Edge Mountains, Netherstorm, Shadowmoon Valley, Howling Fjord, Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Zul’Drak, Scholazar Basin, Grizzly Hills, Stormpeaks, Crystalsong Forest, Icecrown, Vashj’ir, Deepholm, Uldum, Twilight Highlands, Mount Hyjal, Tol Barad, Molten Front, Ahn’Qiraj: The Fallen Kingdom, Gilneas, Kazan, Lost Isles, Jade Forest, Valley of the Four Winds, Vale of Eternal Blossoms, Townlong Steppes, Kun-Lai Summit, Krasarang Wilds, Timeless Isle, Dread Wastes, Gorgond, Frostfire Ridge, Tanaan Jungle, Ashran, Zagrand Sea, Nagrand, Talador, Shadowmoon Valley, Spires of Arak, Kul Tiras, Drustvar, Mechagon Island, Stormsong Valley, Tiragarde Sound, Zandalar, Nazmir, Vol’dun, Zuldazar, Nazjatar. (Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, Blizzard November 15 1994. Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Blizzard December 9 1995. Warcraft III: Blizzard July 3 2002. World of Warcraft, Blizzard November 23 2004)

[retrocgads]

USA 1997

[z2z-gaming-and-random-art-ai]

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. 

For more Back Cover to AI Art videos check out these playlists 

Season 1 of Back Cover to AI Art 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CGhd82prEQGWAVxY3wuQlx3 

Season 2 of Back Cover to AI Art

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CEdLNgql_n-7b20wZwo_yAD

[theguywithaplan]

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

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

http://dlvr.it/T24XGy