Amiga best of

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:37 pm

What should I try

Doesn't it have Wings of Fury? I liked that on Apple IIe as a kid

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:08 pm

Pinball Fantasy
Speedball 2

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:59 pm

Chaos Engine
Alien Breed
Hired Guns
Wings
It Came from the Desert
Monkey Island
Police Quest 3
Sensible World of Soccer
Kick Off 2
Cannon Fodder
Silly Putty
Syndicate
Dreamweb
Populous
Godfather Part 3
Robocop 3

All games I truely loved like they were my children

Damn you now I have to go dig out my A600 for some gaming.

Neil

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:10 pm

There's so much to write on the subject that it could take 50 pages. Any indication? Preferred genre? Type of graphics? How are you going to play? What's your tastes? I despise soccer, for instance, so Sensible Soccer for me is utter crap, regardless of how it is considered by the fandom.

cools · Post by **cools** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:11 pm

More:

Pinbal Dreams
Frontier
The Settlers
Fire and Ice
Zool
Skidmarks
Gravity Force 2
Poing

maxlords · Post by **maxlords** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:35 am

Shufflepuck Cafe
Barbarian
Blood Money
Awesome
Shadow of the Beast as it was meant to be played
Technocop

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:28 am

Fenrir wrote:There's so much to write on the subject that it could take 50 pages. Any indication? Preferred genre? Type of graphics? How are you going to play? What's your tastes? I despise soccer, for instance, so Sensible Soccer for me is utter crap, regardless of how it is considered by the fandom.

Nothing has that many good games, if it would take 50 pages you're counting the mediocrities

I'm looking for arcade and arcade style stuff. Shmup, platformer, puzzle, vs. fighting, action in general. No RPGs or other boringness. Sports are fine if they're like NES Ice Hockey type sports games (no madden bullshit)

Herr Schatten mentioned a game called Rick Dangerous in another thread, anyone else like that one?

dcharlie · Post by **dcharlie** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:36 am

Herr Schatten mentioned a game called Rick Dangerous in another thread, anyone else like that one?

Rick Dangerous is awesome (as is rick dangerous 2) , it's more a platform/puzzler in the end as you try to get through each screen.

Superfrog is another cool platformer from Team 17.

Great Giana sisters has to be seen for the Lol factor, it's actually a very close Mario clone and thus very playable.

shooter wise :
Apidya was fantastic, best shooter on the Amiga by some distance.
Despite being all looks and sound, I quite liked Team 17's Project X.
I found Xenon 2 to be a little too plodding, but is worht seeing non the less.

I recall quite enjoying Sidewinder, but i suspect that that might be my memory playing tricks. I recall it having an arcade version some time later along with Leviathan (pretty bad) when the Amiga was potentially touted for arcade which was a little odd, but fun.

Alien Breed and Chaos Engine area great shooter too, Super star dust is worth checking out too for the nice tunnel effects

Platform/shooter Ruff and Tumble is great arcade run and gun action too.

others:
Hunter is probably my favourite Amiga game AFTER Sensible World of Soccer (played to death during uni).

Cannon Fodder was a cool intro to point and click arcade action.

Shadow of the Beast is worth seeing for historical value - it really was a "WOW" moment when it first hit.

Pinball Fantasies is a great pinball game, still pretty playable now.

I know you don't want strategy etc, but you have to mention The Sentinel , Xcom and Lazer Squad (albeit that they are all multiplatform).

Syndicate is another classic too.

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:35 am

Neon wrote: Nothing has that many good games, if it would take 50 pages you're counting the mediocrities

You don't even know the system, how can you say such a thing

It's usually a good norm to judge only things you know. Also, the idea of a "good game" varies from person to person. Finally, you know how "50 pages" is not really "50 pages" as in counting from 1 to 50, but it's simply a slightly ironic way to say that the Amiga has got a lot of very good games and that you should give us a bit more infos about your tastes instead of saying "omg what should I try on the Amiga?" (what?)... without any indication, this thread would become the usual list of titles with no comment or direction whatsoever.

But, have fun. As in, not with LAUGHTER. That's a kind of fun you don't get from videogames, except boring things such as Monkey Island. I mean fun as in "enjoy your experience with the Amiga software".

Wonderbanana · Post by **Wonderbanana** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:43 am

Other than those mentioned:

Silkworm is a great conversion on the Amiga.

Menace isn't bad but Blood Money is the one to go for from the Psygnosis shooters.

Superfrog - Great Team 17 platformer.

Super Skidmarks - neat little Super Sprint type racer.

Turrican 1 & II - I love TII, its bloody brilliant, the music is ace.

Stunt Car Racer - Geoff Crammond racer thats greart fun.

UFO Enemy Unknown - aka XCOM.

Speedball 2 - Bitmaps at their best.

Super Stardust - Asteroids on acid.

Ruff N Tumble - Platformer shooter, very good.

Banshee - Vertical sorta 19XX style game.

Super Cars II - Similar to super skidmarks, better imo.

Battle Squadron - reasonable vert shooter.

Tbh your spilt for choice on the Amiga, theres a raft of great games. Many of the arcade conversions are excellent.

Wonderbanana · Post by **Wonderbanana** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:46 am

dcharlie wrote: Rick Dangerous is awesome (as is rick dangerous 2) , it's more a platform/puzzler in the end as you try to get through each screen.

X2. Broke so many items in frustration playing it though!

Oh Midwinter, awesome game. An Carrier Command. Crumbs I just realised how much I love the Amiga. So many good games

sjewkestheloon · Post by **sjewkestheloon** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:31 am

Rick Dangerous is well worth a look but is frustratingly difficult and memory based. The sound affects make it worth playing alone.

The set pieces are also fantastic. Imagine Indiana Jones opening sequences every screen.

I really enjoyed the Skidmarks games as a kid, fun physics engine for a single screen racer.

I'd heartily recommend Chaos Engine, but I think that it has been refered to above by a different name. Maybe the American version could have been Blood Money?

Speedball 2 cost me around 4 controllers. I played it for hours with friends.

Definately avoid the Street Fighter games on the console, they really suck balls.

I primarily used my Amiga to play Worms so would recommend that but realiose that you can get it in so many other iterations that it is pretty much defunct.

cools · Post by **cools** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:58 am

I'd forgotten Worms and Chaos Engine!

The original Worms on the Amiga is still the definitive version for me. Every other version has felt like everything's covered in a layer of cotton wool - whereas the Amiga one feels solid.

Chaos Engine is sheer brilliance.

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:30 pm

cools wrote:I'd forgotten Worms and Chaos Engine!

The original Worms on the Amiga is still the definitive version for me. Every other version has felt like everything's covered in a layer of cotton wool - whereas the Amiga one feels solid.

Chaos Engine is sheer brilliance.

Chaos Engine is one of my best games on any machine ever it's simply a work of geneous & I'd love to see it come to Live Arcade with full on multiplayer co-op mode

Like mentioned above Rick Dangerous is an awesome experience as well & a must have IMO

I never did really see the appeal of Shadow of the Beast...sure it looked pretty but aside from that it didnt really do much.

Couple of games I did miss off my list but are simply must haves for anyone into Amiga or gaming in general...

Another World
Flash Back

Simply 2 of the best platformers ever made in my eye's & IMO the true sucessor to the original Prince of Persia game.
Stunning experience & games everyone should play at least once.

Frontier Elite 2 is another game worth investigating...be prepared to lose some serious time to that game, soooo immersive & utterly brilliant.

Neil

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:31 pm

I don't see the port of Ninja Spirit mentioned. Was it any good? Aside from a really bad title screen it looks close to the arcade.

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:13 pm

Off the top of my head:

Platformers
Rick Dangerous 1 & 2
Turrican I & II
Fire and Ice
Rodland
Soccer Kid
Mr. Nutz
Ruff N Tumble
Arabian Nights

Shooters
Apidya
Uridium 2
Z-Out
Disposable Hero
Battle Squadron
Silkworm

Misc.
Chaos Engine
Alien Breed
Speedball 2
Grand Monster Slam
M.U.D.S.
Paradroid 90
Rock'n'Roll
Logical
Gem'X

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:30 pm

Turrican and Turrican II are my favorites.

Lemmings and Worms: The Director's Cut are good on the Amiga, if they're action-y enough for you.

I like Cannon Fodder and Cannon Fodder 2, but the load times make me prefer the SNES and DOS ports, respectively.

Apidya's a fun Gradius-style shooter.

B.C. Kid (a port of Bonk's Adventure for the PCE) is nice.

I don't want to dump on the game, but The Chaos Engine seemed pretty mediocre compared to arcade greats like Total Carnage and Ikari Warriors.

Wonderbanana · Post by **Wonderbanana** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:44 pm

sjewkestheloon wrote:I'd heartily recommend Chaos Engine, but I think that it has been refered to above by a different name. Maybe the American version could have been Blood Money?.

No mate, Blood Money is a shooter by Psygnosis.

'Twas the game that finally made me buy my A500 when I saw it running in our local computer shop

moonblood · Post by **moonblood** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:54 pm

It was called Soldiers of Fortune in America I think

dcharlie · Post by **dcharlie** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:18 pm

heh, i remember the whole "Blood Money not poosible on the ST" claims then we got an ST version (that was worse, but....). Productive system wars!!

Great game, very pretty

Wonderbanana · Post by **Wonderbanana** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:01 pm

Assuming your using Win UAE, you could add one of these USB Joysticks for the true Amiga experience:

http://www.medusa-uk.com/185-amiga-clas ... -1316.html

MadScientist · Post by **MadScientist** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:05 pm

moonblood wrote:It was called Soldiers of Fortune in America I think

The SNES and Genesis ports were called Soldiers of Fortune in the US.

cools · Post by **cools** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:40 pm

Mortificator wrote:I don't want to dump on the game, but The Chaos Engine seemed pretty mediocre compared to arcade greats like Total Carnage and Ikari Warriors.

TCE was definitely not an arcade shooter, although the later levels were brutally difficult.

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:19 pm

cools wrote:TCE was definitely not an arcade shooter, although the later levels were brutally difficult.

Is the last boss even beatable with one of the slower characters?

cools · Post by **cools** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:26 pm

It's a long time since I played it. Used to play as the Preacher, with the Mercenary as the CPU.

Preacher with fully upgraded weapons = win.

sjewkestheloon · Post by **sjewkestheloon** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:34 pm

Wonderbanana wrote:
sjewkestheloon wrote:I'd heartily recommend Chaos Engine, but I think that it has been refered to above by a different name. Maybe the American version could have been Blood Money?.
No mate, Blood Money is a shooter by Psygnosis.

'Twas the game that finally made me buy my A500 when I saw it running in our local computer shop

Hmmm Psygnosis, Amiga and shooter all rolled into one package that I haven't tried? I think I need to rectify....

MadScientist · Post by **MadScientist** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:16 pm

Not all of Psygnosis' Amiga shmups were that good. Agony looked nice but played quite badly (everything took about 50 shots to kill).
Nice intro music though;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks3PHI2diuY

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:45 pm

Neon wrote:What should I try

Doesn't it have Wings of Fury?

oh yes!
great game indeed!

Also not mentioned here are:

-Hybris (really cool ver shmup, with awesome music).
-The Plague (run and gun with superb music and very nice gfx)
-Rainbow Islands port is VERY good! (skip if you've got PCE already though)
-New Zealand Story (see above comment)
-Last Ninja 2 and Last Ninja Remix (assuming you haven't played them on a c64 already).
-Alien Breed series (all of them)
-Atomic Robo-kid (very nice and playable version, though I can't vouch for accuracy of conversion since I never played the arcade game)

But really, there are soo many games i could recommend, I'll just leave it after the first few that came to mind.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:21 pm

Fenrir wrote:
Neon wrote: Nothing has that many good games, if it would take 50 pages you're counting the mediocrities
You don't even know the system, how can you say such a thing
It's usually a good norm to judge only things you know. Also, the idea of a "good game" varies from person to person. Finally, you know how "50 pages" is not really "50 pages" as in counting from 1 to 50, but it's simply a slightly ironic way to say that the Amiga has got a lot of very good games and that you should give us a bit more infos about your tastes instead of saying "omg what should I try on the Amiga?" (what?)... without any indication, this thread would become the usual list of titles with no comment or direction whatsoever.

But, have fun. As in, not with LAUGHTER. That's a kind of fun you don't get from videogames, except boring things such as Monkey Island. I mean fun as in "enjoy your experience with the Amiga software".

lol

Lloyd Mangram · Post by **Lloyd Mangram** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:57 pm

Ed Oscuro wrote:I don't see the port of Ninja Spirit mentioned. Was it any good? Aside from a really bad title screen it looks close to the arcade.

The Amiga suffered from a number of lazy ports from the Atari ST. Unfortunately this often occurred with arcade conversions -- they'd do a conversion for the ST, then do a quick port across to the Amiga for extra cheeseburgers.

The result is usually a game that suffers from the jerky scrolling and low framerate so often found on the ST (not to mention a more limited palette).

I believe Ninja Spirit is one of those cases. See also Black Tiger, Mr Heli, Last Duel, Ghouls n Ghosts... there are plenty more.

There were a handful of excellent arcade conversions, usually when the developers made the effort to use the Amiga's hardware (Rodland, Silkworm, Pang, Toki), however it's a telling sign that a quick look at the top 100 games list over at lemonamiga.com reveals only about 2 or 3 arcade conversions.

Hmm... why do I feel like I should end this post with a ^_~

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