What was your favourite Amiga game?

Premier Manager 1

Also Sensible World of Soccer, Pirates!, Beneath A Steel Sky, and fucking James Pond: Robocod

MONKEY ISLAND

VIRUS

and kick off over sensi soccer.

Spectre. Shit was way ahead of its time.

i remember my mate copied me the akira game, but it was well shit.

All of the above really, apart from that nonsense about Kick Off from ledge.

I think if pushed I'd choose Syndicate.

Monkey Island 1 and 2, Lemmings, and Hunter which was awesome third person "roam about on map committing sabotage, killing enemy soldiers and stealing pushbikes" awesomeness.

Monkey Island thirded, fourthed ad infinitum.

The original Championship Managers were da shit too.

Chaos Engine worth a mention too, and the Amiga version of Speedball II is maybe the best one.

Wait, not Spectre. What was that called? You were a space pilot and could be a trader or a pirate or mercenary, etc.

Elite

and kick off over sensi soccer.

-- ledge, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 09:53 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ban

YES.

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More likely "Frontier: Elite II"

Favourite Amiga game? Sensible Soccer of course. I have a particular fondness for version 1.2, but the less buggy versions of SWOS are great too.

Lemmings was great, I remember we used to play it all the time on my friend's Amiga. That was probably the last computer game I've played intensively.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUoJBerFDsA

why o why can't there be a world of amiga site that has java ports of amiga games like WOS. that winuae emulator is worthless and i want to play wizkid and pushover (?, the puzzle game with the quavers dog)

Pushover was a great puzzle game. Rock hard towards the end though.

"I'll get them!"

New Zeland Story! That was great too! I love all those old 2D platform games, is anyone making those anymore? I've tried some new 3D platform games, but operating the characters in 3D is kinda too complicated for me. Why does everything have to be 3D these days?

Also, ever since PCs became the norm I've had little interest in computer games, because playing with mouse and keyboard is much more complicated than playing with joystick. Why can't PCs have joysticks?

they do.

Ah, okay. Are there still 2D platform games available that you can play with a joystick? I just got my own PC, it'd be nice to try games again.

i d/ld a port of turrican 2 last night that you can play with a joystick. not as good as i remembered though. there are games like max payne 1 & 2 and plenty more that use joystick and i guess you'd like.

WELcome to TURRICAN, AH HA HA HA!

sensi soccer with the tiny pitch and tiny men, whatever.

i once got all the computer players team sent off in kick off - the referee was particularly trigger happy and i just ran over the other players' legs whenever they did a tackle. Got quite a few goals in until I kicked the ball into touch and there was no-one left to throw it in.

Shadow of the Beast (was rubbish)

Speedball 2, yup. Cadaver, nice little 3d iso puzzle game. Xenon 2.

I always had a soft spot for Ocean film tie-ins, for example Batman and Robocop, even though they were often a bit crap.

R-Type was good, if fiendishly difficult. Marble Madness!

Ah, okay. Are there still 2D platform games available that you can play with a joystick? I just got my own PC, it'd be nice to try games again.

-- Tuomas, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 11:34

i got a megadrive-style control pad for the PC, i mostly use it to play old sega and nintendo roms. i think there are some people out there who make 2d games you can download, but the old ones are ace anyway.

Cinemaware!

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Another World plz and everything Bitmap Bros. I never had an Amiga though, just played them at friends' houses (also enjoyed Populous II, Mega-Lo-Mania and Blood Money, but didn't get more than a couple of afternoons at any of them), so I should not be on here. Oh! Worms!

Does anyone want to be all misty-eyed about the Amiga demo/tracking scene?

what was the platform game where you played an armoured shrimp with a stretchy Inspector Gadget body and bounced around in levels made of jelly and cake? kinda like Zool but not.

James Pond 2?

Yes! James Pond was ossum. Lots of love for that game. New Zealand story was great too but I found it a bit too difficult.

cake hammer earth apple tap

On that subject, what was the platform game where the hero was a cute, green little creature with a snorkel and a flamethrower, and the opponents were like teddy bears with mouths full of sharp teeth in their stomach, and you had to get out of a sewer before the water level rose and you drowned?

Populous II seconded!

No Dizzy love?

(xposts) ...I might have meant Flashback and not Another World. Going to have to go home and try to get an emulator working again to see which I'm thinking of. I mean, I'm led to believe they were both ace, but I've only played one of them properly.

Robocod was great but I only played the PC version, I'm sure the Amiga one was even more so. I just acquired TNZS on some (all-round pretty lousy, do not pay money for) arcade collection for PSP after many years of wanting to play it but it seems I don't have the patience for that kind of game now, I've just been inserting more virtual coins and using the continues every time I die - about every, ooh, 30 seconds - instead of trying to play properly.

Yeah I got winuae and found that. same with speccy games. Mind you I don't replay PS or PC titles either. I guess I'm just not into replaying games - been there, done that.

Stunt Car Racer
Pang
A public domain Dr Mario Clone I can't remember the name of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_%28computer_game%29

Oh yeah, the game I was looking for was "Flood". It had the most ridiculous ending ever: the goal of the game was to get out of the sewer, and once you passed the final level, you saw an animation where the cute little protagonist climbs on the surface, only to be squashed by a passing car immediately afterwards.

this'd be a short thread without all those PC games people keep posting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-platform

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/shut-up-onimo-you-suck

You made that up

Monkey Island for sure.

"Soon you'll be wearing my sword like a sheesh kebab."
"Well you'd better stop waiving it around like a feather duster first."

"I've spoken with apes more polite then you."
"I'm glad to hear you attended your family reunion."

Stunt Car Racer

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4904/stuntcarracer0367xv5.gif

"I'm gonna clean up every dirty corner of this island!"
"So you got that job as janitor then"

xpost damn

"I got this scar on my face during a mighty struggle!"
"I hope now you've learned to stop picking your nose."

"Every word you say to me is stupid."
"I wanted to make sure you'd feel comfortable with me."

My high school girlfriend quoted Monkey Island all the damn time.

When I downloaded it off of KAZAA for her, you'd have thought I'd written her favorite song, given her 12 billion dollars, and resurrected her favorite dead relative all in one fell swoop.

I wish someone would do an update to stunt car racer. Even the identical game with modern frame rates would be amazing.

Rick Dangerous!
Remember the "Waaah!" sound?

I miss 2D + joysticks, too. Haven't used a joystick since those Amiga 500 days.

Also remember the Batman movie game.

A flash remake of rick dangerous is available here:

http://rickdangerousflash.free.fr/

Frontier: Elite 2 (bugs and all) and Settlers

"Just keep doing what you're doing right now."
"What, playing with the change in my pocket?"

frontier: elite II = A+++++++++++
out of this world + flashback were both great
cinemaware otm: defender of the crown, wings, it came from the desert
gravity wars 2
chaos engine
soccer kid or w/e was ok, as was zool
sensible soccer
the killing game show was ok, maybe a little too hard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Power

the batman game was great. i had it on a lucasarts pack including indiana jones (last crusade) and i think ghostbusters.

i remember being particularly adept at batarang-ing. never completed it though.

I never got the hang of control in Sensible Soccer or Kick Off 2.

I used to play Deja Vu II and Earl Weaver Baseball II an awful lot. Except I couldn't really figure out what I needed to do in the latter (good training for Myst), and EWB seemed to have some bug that didn't let me use the "play" mode, so I had to content myself with Manager mode - I basically set up tournaments and watched a lot of games, making calls to replace pitchers or steal bases as need be.

Yes, my video game history, much like the rest of my childhood, was unusually introverted...

settlers yess
cannon fodder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Power

-- caek, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 15:12

used to get that every week, the only thing i used to read outside of school.

used to love gobliiins

currently hammering all the games on http://www.abandonia.com/ for that dosbox thingy

My magazine history: Your Sinclair/Acne/Zit/Viz, Amiga Power, Super Play, Four Four Two, Uncut, Economist/Viz

Amiga Power remains the best of that bunch.

natch

haha...i still use natch

amiga format was too dry and technical (for an 11 year old, anyway), and cu amiga was just rubbish. amiga power was slammin.

I remember Amiga Format giving Amos Professional (a fucking BASIC interpreter) 99% and putting it on the cover. I bought that issue thinking it was an awesome new game.

i use to get amiga format now and again, mainly when they had a good "full price" game for free on the cover.

I probably have almost all of st/amiga format and amiga format 1-150 back at my folks house. plus a few ace, zero, ami power.

I got about 50 AP's and a couple of dozen YS free as an undergraduate from an ad on usenet. Read them all for breaks during finals and kept a list of games I wanted to play when I had the time. I think it pretty much just said "Frontier Elite 2"

Supercars II and Micro Machines (both in 2 player mode). I played a lot of Lotus Turbo Challenge as well. "Behind is ahead".

haha...i still use natch

me too ... wasn't it a smash-hits-ism that a load of computer mags promptly swiped?

The design and navigation is murder, but the guys behind Amiga Power put up a huge site to remember it/explain the jokes etc after it was cancelled. It's at http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/ap2/

good times, good times. ;_;

gooduns not already mentioned: D/Generation, Dynablaster, Cycles (PD), F1 Grand Prix, Lotus 2, Desert Strike, Apidya

i used to play a game on the amiga years ago that i loved, and i really want to track it down again. it was real simple, a 3d front-on scrolling track and you were a ball rolling down this track. you could jump and hit space to get superzoom and speed on down. i think it might have been a demo i played, maybe not a fully released game, it was incredibly addictive though. sorry for the crappy description, any ideas what it was called?

Trailblazer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_(game)

also, possibly "Jump 'n' Roll", as this is public domain:

http://hol.abime.net/3571

Spindizzy?

pretty sure it's jump 'n' roll, thanks guys!

One issue of Amiga Power had a spreadsheet/ programming software called Hypercard and they were all "this programme is amazing, you can do anything with it!"

I never touched it and then about 7 year later, I had to programme something on it for a Masters I was taking. it was awful and all I could think about was if I had spent more time learning it whilst it was free on AP, and less time playing syndicate, I would have aced that Masters Degree.

Have a guess!!

the fuck, i was like 0yrs old when the amiga dawned

yall is hella old

Thanks a lot!

Populous 2 and Syndicate and Monkey Island.... And my household got a lot of mileage out of Eye of the Beholder.

http://www.nemmelheim.de/turrican/files/welcometoturrican.mp3

When I saw how greatly improved many of the games were on Amiga compared to their PC versions, I got real jealous of my Amiga-owning friend. Xenon 2, in particular.

Great, now 'Megablast' is playing on a loop in my mind...

Hahaha ledge, you've got it in one - although I thought the second Turrican was streets ahead of the first!

Other games I liked (some of which have already been mentioned):

Lotus Turbo Challenge II
Jaguar XJ220
Tangram
D/Generation
James Pond 2: Robocod
Lemmings
Sensible Soccer/Sensible World Of Soccer
Flashback/Another World
Alien Breed
Pinball Dreams/Pinball Fantasies
Cannon Fodder
Superfrog
Megaball

So many others... also did a bit of coding too - was mostly familiar with AMOS Professional, but also remember using ARexx a bit (all of which I've now forgotten), and a little bit of 68k ASM (which I mostly used to give myself unlimited balls on Pinball Dreams, if I remember!) before I got rid of my Amiga...

I used to use Protracker/OctaMED a bit as well. Amiga music was ace.

Btw, did anyone ever play Stunt Car Racer via 'link-up' mode?

re discovered Frontier lately, on WinUAE. Got further in it than I ever did when I actually owned an Amiga
I never realised that it would work on an A1200 and its much much faster than the A500.

Still can't do combat though, and currently just fly between Barnards Star and Sol trading computers and robots. But I have saved up for a great ship at least.

Was feeling a bit nostalgic tonight and dug out the Amiga emulator. I'd forgotten just how much I fucking love Cannon Fodder!