Original Moonstone Box and Poster Art!

 

Yes, I own them both, courtesy of tracking down the awesome David O’Connor 🙂

Rob and David in 2018 in the latter’s Brighton studio.

Reunited in 2024, both looking a little greyer but just as chuffed.

Here they are, both proudly displayed behind posh museum glass on my office wall in Wales.

Manual

The full Moonstone manual for download in zip form.

Fan Song

The Tavern received an email in 2006 from a Moonstone fan named Doodah regarding a song he’d written as a tribute to the game. Here’s what he had to say…

First I want to applaud your site – a shrine to one of the best games that ever existed! I remember days, nights, weeks, months just playing Moonstone on my Amiga with my Cheetah joystick…… In my life I have strived to play as many games as possible, but I still see Moonstone as one of the BEST. As a result of my love for the game which I still play via Dosbox, a few pals and I wrote this song in memory and dedication of Moonstone. It is not truly complete yet, since we’re planning more verses – but will it ever be finished? I have attached the mp3 to this email, I just thought you might want to hear it! Hopefully you will like it, Doodah.

Listen to the song below. You can definitely see the guys are influenced by Led Zeppelin – it’s like a cross between Immigrant Song and Stairway to Heaven.

Box Art & Packaging

Many thanks to Olli Knagge for the scans.

Postermap

Click on the image below for a 20mb version of the fold-out postermap that was originally bundled with Moonstone. Many thanks to Florent Richard.

The Three Different Versions of Moonstone

Images once again courtesy of Olli Knagge, proud (and lucky/rich) owner of all three versions of Moonstone.

Top to bottom: Moonstone PC, Moonstone Amiga and Moonstone Amiga Limited Edition (inc. Knightmare rolling demo) 

Moonstone ASCII Art

Brilliant piece of ASCII art I found whilst trawling on Google’s Usenet Archive for Moonstone-related material. I believe the author is Marcin Gliñski.