Amiga games

[Michael Gold]

When I was a child I spent long time playing games on Amiga. My favourite were Syndicate, Cannon Fodder and Goblins series. Are there more Amiga players? What games did you like?

[burble]

Gods, Xenon II: Megablast & Mega Lo Mania were the ones I kept going back to.

What's a bit surprising though is that I can still remember the code for the final battle Mega Lo Mania. It's a 24 year old game but I still remember a code from it. I can't remember what I had for dinner a week ago today but an 11 digit code form 1991? Sure!

[Ferral]

I have loads of Amiga & Atari ST stuff, buy it regularly. I also have boat loads of C64 (original Breadbin from 1985) stuff amongst other 8 Bits (Amstrad & Speccy (2x +2 - 1x Black A and a grey) and have a Megadrive with MegaCD, SNES and an Arc.

C64 and Megadrive are my childhood machines, I now have over 500 original tapes for it, also have an Action Replay Mk4, Vic 1541 Disk Drive, 1541 Mk2 (slimmer version that matches C64c), numerous Powerplay Cruisers, Uiec/SD (Do occasionally use it for quicker failsafe loading), 2 Mills tape decks (light bar for fine tuning best load signal from Azimuth Alignment), 2 standard C2N tape decks and a C16 1531 with the required adapter to hook up to the C64.

My Amiga I have a 600 and a 1200, mind you the 1200 keyboard is goosed and have yet to find a replacement membrane or keyboard for that matter. I have found that the Amiga games have a higher failure rate than the ST, I think Commodore were using cheaper drives which worked the disks harder.

My Atari ST is branded as a 520 STe, however I upgraded the ram to 4Mb and have an external Ultrasatan external SD hard drive for it. Very nice machine, just a shame that the sound chip (Yamaha) and Blitter weren't put to good use, it was a case of to little to late. Mind you games like Interphase and Chambers of Shaolin look and sound amazing using the full extent of the STe capabilities.

All my stuff bar 2 or 3 items is photographed and uploaded on Retro Collect, all my photos are categorised there into variouis sub groups to make browsing easier, go check them out if interested

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[Galant]

Turrican 2 and The Secret of Monkey Island are probably my top two. I'll try to keep myself from getting started on long lists!

Just for old time's sake though...

Good memories were made with:
Leander
First Samurai
Street Fighter 2

[scorch666]

Ah man! I remember having a orange Atari system before me and my brother had a C64. The good ol days of waiting patiently for a game to load. Holding your breath and trying not to move in the hope it will load.
Then i went and bought myself an Amiga 600. Used to love playing Cannon Fodder, and Chaos Engine.
And then i bought my first computer. It was a Pentium 90, in which i OCed it to 100.
Anyone remember the Matrox graphics cards back in the day?

[Ferral]

Matrox are actually still masking graphics cards, thing is though they aren't doing gaming ones as such anymore like the Parhelia. If you have a look on Scan you can still get them, the prices though are pretty steep for what they are.

All my retro games are now moved over to Retro Collect as the guy that was running Colexions out of the blue just took it down without saying anything to anyone a few days back (did same thing in July only to bring it back). So I organised stuff into smaller sub categories depending on case size and style and uploaded to RC. Looks pretty cool and tidy

[Smudger]

I had a 500Plus, I think it had 1Mb RAM instead of the usual 512Kb. I loved it, especially Sensible World of Soccer (best football game ever, FACT), Cannon Fodder and Syndicate. Eventually, it went up in the loft when the PS came out, although it did come back down again for the odd drunken afternoon of tournament SWOS.
Then went through a phase of collecting them, and got a 1200 and a CD32. In the end though, I let them go cos I just wasn't getting the time to use them...

[Ferral]

The 500+ did indeed come with 1 Mb ram and it was Kickstart 2 and ECS (Enhanced ChipSet), essentially it was an Amiga 600 but in a full size Amiga 500 case, some games you need ReloKick to run them as there were a few incompatible titles with the 500 OCS (Original ChipSet). Relokick soft downgraded to Kickstart 1.3 needed for a few older games like Phobia and Rick Dangerous.

I do have an Amiga 1200 myself but half the keys aren't working on it and no replacement membranes or keyboards available from Amigakit presently, both my Amiga 600 & 1200 are put away presently and I am using my Atari STe more as it seems a lot more hardy and better built than the later Commodore machines (funnily enough after Jack Tramiel left CBM build quality started going downhill and I have found disc drives on both 600 & 1200 can be a bit flaky as well as the keyboards on those 2 machines.)

[virtuo]

500+, 600, 1200 CD32 and a CDTV that doesn't work. Must use my Amigas more than my current/last gen consoles..

Glad Sensible Soccer got a shout, absolute perfection and still holds up today - I play the megadrive version on my phone as it seems to emulate better.

Cannon Fodder, SuperCars 2, Monkey Island, Dune 2, Chaos Engine, Speedball, Smash TV, Lemmings, Turrican, SOTB, Flashback, Micro Machines, Sim City.... mmm


Sure I had things to do this evening, now they won't get done. Thanks.

[shaithis]

What's a bit surprising though is that I can still remember the code for the final battle Mega Lo Mania. It's a 24 year old game but I still remember a code from it. I can't remember what I had for dinner a week ago today but an 11 digit code form 1991? Sure!

I can actually remember the code for C64 Ghostbusters (1984......I was 11...) for maximum money....

Tai Ling Wu
31722246

It is shocking what the human brain can keep hidden in its dark corners!

As for Amiga games....my faves were:

Xenon 2 , Defender of the Crown, Hostages, Killing Game Show, Altered beast, the LucasArts iMuse games and Speedball 2

[HSK]

I loved my Amiga, so many fond memories of messing around and playing games on it.

Used to love all the games mentioned here...frontier elite was great.

And this platform game - where you turn in to a hybrid wolfman? I cant remember what it was called, but it had digitized speech in the game intro!! that was amazing alone. I wan't good at it.

Another world was a fav!!

[Ferral]

I loved my Amiga, so many fond memories of messing around and playing games on it.

Used to love all the games mentioned here...frontier elite was great.

And this platform game - where you turn in to a hybrid wolfman? I cant remember what it was called, but it had digitized speech in the game intro!! that was amazing alone. I wan't good at it.

Another world was a fav!!

That game was Wolfchild by Core Design

[TerminatorUK]

Some of my fondest gaming memories were on the Amiga.

In no particular order, some of my favourites were:

- Lemmings / Lemmings 2: The Tribes
- Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge / Lotus 2
- Super Cars 2
- Operation Stealth
- Monkey Island
- Rainbow Islands
- Dynablaster
- Ugh!
- Toki
- Chuck Rock
- Putty
- Indy Heat
- Chaos Engine
- Speedball 2
- Syndicate
- Theme Park
- Sensible Soccer
- Cannon Fodder
- Diggers
- Heimdall
- Rick Dangerous
- Escape from the planet of the robot monsters

....the list goes on and on!

I think it boils down to:

1) Games and expectations were so much more simple then - once a game was released, that was it (unless expansion disks came along). You took it at face value - no internet updates, no free-to-play / pay-to-win / no subscription fees / no internet connection required / no 'game breaking balance updates' etc...
2) Real multiplayer - you and your mates with multiple 'zip stick' joysticks around one Amiga - epic. I remember Dynablaster shipped with an expansion adapter that plugged into the printer port (I think) allowing for 4 joysticks to be used at once (omg!)
3) Gameplay >>>>>>> Graphics
4) I was (and I'm sure many who played on the Amiga) was a child and had plenty of time to play games then

[scorch666]

I agree. Great time back then.