Amiga Games

Batch · 07-04-2006, 3:41 PM

I've just found my good old Commodore Amiga 600HD in my loft which i am going to set up agin for the first time in about 10 years. Problem is that i sold virtually all of my games years ago, and really can't remember many of them. So, what would you say are the 10 must have Amiga games?

Thanks

Batch

danwalton · 07-04-2006, 3:47 PM

oooh now you're talking!

worms
syndicate
sensible soccer
populus
chaos engine
cannon fodder

to name but a few!

spike99 · 07-04-2006, 3:48 PM

NICE ONE CLASSIC MACHINE

Speedball would be no.1

hpoom · 07-04-2006, 3:49 PM

Yep all those that danwalton said are great, but you have to get "Turrican 2" as well, this is (IMO) the best amiga game!!!

danwalton · 07-04-2006, 4:07 PM

speedball and turrican for sure! how did i forget them?!

Bilbob · 07-04-2006, 5:22 PM

Speedball, xenon, and frontier

oh, and wasn't starglider on the amiga?

ELV · 07-04-2006, 5:52 PM

Stunt Car Racer,Swiv,again, Speedball Two,

Those were the days!!

What was the game called with the little dwarf looking around a castle with dragons etc, it was sort of an rpg and iv'e a feeling the Bitmap Brothers did it?

ah look here http://www.bitmap-brothers.co.uk/dow...aver/index.htm

Soundwave · 07-04-2006, 6:07 PM

If your looking for something a bit different then try...

It came From The Desert

Game based on the 50's B-Movie - Them
Fantastic game, one I played over & over on the Amiga

Also for a LONG lasting challenge then you have to get Frontier: Elite 2 SO vast & life consuming it's not funny...I swear I missed a year of School because of it

Anyway a quick list of some good games other than those would be...

Alien Breed
Chaos Engine
Wing Commander
Wings
Robocop 3
Silly Putty
Shadow of the Beat
Monkey Island
Police Quest 3
Dreamweb

Try traking those down...it will be worth it!!

Neil

mattrixdesign2 · 07-04-2006, 6:25 PM

Xenon, Stuntcar Racer, Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters, Shuffel Puck Cafe, Wings, Speed Ball and X-Copy 2 (joke)!

Oh and Delux Paint 2

Figment · 07-04-2006, 6:57 PM

I used to love my A600 and still miss features the paint prog used to be able to do that modern ones still dont. But for games my number 1 has to be Pushover. You can download it and run on pc but it runs really crap with no sound. The other one i miss is Silly Putty.

Melkor · 07-04-2006, 7:24 PM

Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, Valhalla, Lemmings

danwalton · 07-04-2006, 8:35 PM

Simcity! Dune 2000! (x-copy 2 mattrix? I like it!

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Bilbob · 07-04-2006, 9:46 PM

Melkor: Valhalla? Wasn't that on the spectrum???!

Conn · 07-04-2006, 10:02 PM

Speedball 2....the days a spent playing that...Brutal Deluxe

Turrican 2...Pinball Dreams/Fantasies...Mega-lo-mania...Populas...

Shame the Bitmap Brothers site has not been updated for 3 years

danwalton · 07-04-2006, 10:23 PM

Brutal Sports Football. I dread to think how many hours I lost to that game! Legendary

Oh and when I bought Alien Breed 3D with my pocket money, it actually scared me to death. I mean, I was genuinely frightened to play it! Haha, I feel so much better for telling you lot that!

Wow, the Amiga was a great machine...

Batch · 07-04-2006, 10:40 PM

Thanks for the recommendations guys, now i've just got to find where i can pick them up, looks like it'll be ebay!

Batch

mattrixdesign2 · 08-04-2006, 6:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by danwalton

x-copy 2 mattrix? I like it!

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I must confess that 95% of my Amiga games were copies! But I now buy all my games 9since PS1) and its better, I have less of them but play them more!

Any way more addtions to the Amiga Collection:

Elite
Kick Off (I preffered this to Sensi)
I would also like to suggest Geoff Grammonds F1GP, well well well ahead of its time! But now it perhaps looks dated

mattrixdesign2 · 08-04-2006, 6:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Batch

Thanks for the recommendations guys, now i've just got to find where i can pick them up, looks like it'll be ebay!

Batch

You you could off had my originals but I dont have a clue what I did with them - I think I may have been stupid enough to sell them for pennies or bin them

I hope you enjoy reliving those Amiga days, hope you are not dissapointed, time can be cruel on many games!

Epicurus · 08-04-2006, 11:00 AM

Mega-Lo-Mania, Speedball 2, Turricane 2, Xenon 2, Magic pockets, Chaos Engine, Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder and Apidya.

2010 · 08-04-2006, 11:36 PM

The problem you will have with original games is loading them, like all magnetic media, as the years pass the data gets lost. Maybe better off downloading the images.

Heres a few more games worth getting:

Project X
Another World
Prince of Persia
Flashback
Rainbow Islands
Great Giana Sisters (Mario clone)

danwalton · 09-04-2006, 12:23 AM

did anyone ever play that comic relief game called Sleep Walker (I think...) where you played a dog and you had to guide your sleepwalking owner to safely - along power lines and over manholes etc.

What a great game!

T-Bone · 09-04-2006, 7:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by danwalton

did anyone ever play that comic relief game called Sleep Walker (I think...) where you played a dog and you had to guide your sleepwalking owner to safely - along power lines and over manholes etc.

What a great game!

Yes and I was recently fortunate to get a copy of it from a member on this forum!

Batch - try a wanted post in the games trading folder - I did just that and had around 80 Amiga games the next day as one member lived a few miles away and wanted rid of all of his!

You might be better buying someones entire collection - thats pretty much what I did, as buying them all individually on ebay is really gonna add up cost wise!

Melkor · 09-04-2006, 7:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bilbob

Melkor: Valhalla? Wasn't that on the spectrum???!

It might of been, but i deffinately remember playing it on my Amiga 2600

Miyazaki · 09-04-2006, 10:46 AM

Can't believe noone has mentioned carrier command!

Superfrog was genius as well!

eviljohn2 · 09-04-2006, 11:40 AM

Mega-Lo-Mania (again)
Lemmings
Cannon Fodder
Harlequin
SWOS
Rainbow Islands
Sensible Trainspotting

to name a few.

danwalton · 09-04-2006, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eviljohn2

...Sensible Trainspotting...

Is that a made up game?

sounds like an oxymoron to me!

eviljohn2 · 09-04-2006, 12:12 PM

Nope, it was a real game that was created by Sensible and exclusively provided as an Amiga Power coverdisc. I included it in my list as everyone should really play a trainspotting game at least once.

bonzobanana · 09-04-2006, 6:02 PM

I always hated those Turrican games. Never understood what people saw in them. Another vote here for Shufflepuck Cafe. Absolutely brilliant use of the mouse with great opponents. Really wierd and enjoyable. Also you can't really mention amiga without the amazing demo scene and diskzines. It was a fantastic community in its day which will probably never come again. PCs just aren't the same.

Games I most played on the Amiga was Elite and Elite 2 - Frontier. I also found Super Space Invaders very enjoyable especially the music. Damocles was quite impressive too. Sadly Damocles looks pretty hopeless now with such a low polygon count and a very occasional texture but still a virtual 3D world from the Amiga days.

Chunder · 10-04-2006, 9:55 AM

I haven't got much to add, unfortunately - everyone seems to have covered all of the great games, most of which are still fun today!

Don't think anyone has mentioned Skidmarks/Superskidmarks yet, nor the original "top down" Alien Breed games. How about Assassin (for that matter, mostly anything published by Team17!). Zool was also good for a laugh... International Karate + and Body Blows were pretty cool beat 'em ups (much better than the ports of StreetFighter2 and Mortal Kombat).
If you've got a powerful-enough Amiga (not an A600 I'm afraid!) then you can even run stuff like Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Descent, Freespace... pretty impressive, although dated - it's a shame that it took so long, that the Amiga scene could never catch up

As you've got an A600, there's a few that others have mentioned which won't run properly/satisfactorily - SimCity will be OK, but SimCity2000 was a dog even on a top-of-the-line Amiga. Frontier really needed the '020 processor in an A1200 in order to be fun. Formula 1 Grand Prix takes on a new lease of life when you use some of the performance patches that were available, etc.

If anyone really wants to relive the nostalgia, the best solution is to get an basic A1200 from eBay (dead cheap), buy and fit a cheap hard disk (4GB or less - v. important!), get hold of a piece of software called WHDLoad (which patches floppy games to run on your machine, directly from the HD - no more floppy swapping!)... grab your zipstick and have FUN!

Some sites worth checking out if you want a bit of nostalgic banter:
http://www.amigaworld.net
http://www.amiga.org

and if you want some Amiga-specific classified ads:
http://www.amibench.org

11-04-2006, 6:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by danwalton

oooh now you're talking!

worms
syndicate
sensible soccer
populus
chaos engine
cannon fodder

to name but a few!

Complete List of MOst Popular Amiga games:
Doom
Another World
Sensible World of Soccer
Better Dead Than Alien
Cannon Fodder
Worms
Deuteros: The Next Millenium
Moonstone
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Settlers
P.P. Hammer
James Pond
Wings of Fury
Colonization