I might be misremembering this but wasn’t the end when your main character emerges from the sewers you’ve spent the entire game and several hours and gets immediately run over a car deadid?
Shamefully I was not a good game person bakc then so didn't manage to get to the end.
And yet, in many ways we still felt like we playing THE GAMES OF THE FUTURE, and we persevered, and we mapped the whole thing out, and we finished it, long before Googling something (or indeed the internet) was a thing.
Nothing had ever looked like this before, and specifically in the case of the Amiga, nothing had ever sounded like this before. It really was the spiritual successor to the C64 and its incredible SID chip.
For the time it was great - you had great arcade conversions of games (so much better than the 16bit ones but now - why not just use MAME and get the real arcade machines) Its early 3d worlds stuff was all good , but again all overtaken by other stuff or remade Its RPG's - again so much better than what came before but then overtaken by everything since then.
At the time it really brought plug and play to a lot of people - it behaved a lot like a console - you turned it on - put a disk in and played - no config / settings / whatever else you just turned it on and it worked.
The other big thing here is emulating it is not trivial - and then other than the nostalgia factor its difficult to look at things and go 'thats the definitive version of this'
Off the top of my head - games I associate with the Amiga
Bubble Bobble Elite Defender of the crown Lemmings Wings Dungeon Master Zool Ultima 7 ** edit - looks like I mean Ultima 6 instead :-) Sensi Syndicate Cannon Fodder Pinball Dreams / Fantasies Monkey Island Speedball Worms North and South Xenon 2 Stunt Car Racer Populous IK+ Robocod
However virtually everything I've listed there I could play on something newer and with less hassles
After this thread, I ended up seeing if there were any decent online emulators and I ended up playing Pinball Dreams on this one for a bit. It's not perfect, but not bad.
After this thread, I ended up seeing if there were any decent online emulators and I ended up playing Pinball Dreams on this one for a bit. It's not perfect, but not bad.
I loved the idea of a Sam Coupe. A Spectrum, but with more colours, how much better could it get? Never used one though, I'm guessing it would be a disappointment.
Having just bought a load of Amiga stuff on eBay (seems a bit cheap so we'll see if it actually arrives), it reminded me of another game I sank a fair bit of time into - Carrier Command. Can't remember ever completing it though
Having just bought a load of Amiga stuff on eBay (seems a bit cheap so we'll see if it actually arrives), it reminded me of another game I sank a fair bit of time into - Carrier Command. Can't remember ever completing it though
It did actually arrive and now my house is full of oversized game boxes. Pinball Dreams and Batman don't seem to be compatible with my A1200, but I did get a couple of games to load at least.
SWOS 96/97 is debatable because you can download and play an up-to-date PC version with online play these days. But for handheld it's pretty much a must..
Not enough swos love in this thread.. in the swos scene there is still a debate on the best version.. The update date version you refer to is actually an amiga emulator combined with online play.. (so in my opinion that's still an amiga game)
Since december last year swos 2020 arrived, which reverse engineered the amiga version, and added the amiga gameplay to the pc version (and increased the playing area to cover the big screen.. and did a lot more).. that one is not online yet,. but will be the definitive edition too..
Is Apidya mentioned btw reading the amigapower kickstart booklet .. it's an amazing and exclusive horizontal shmup with a very original theme (insects)
for me the amiga was great because of the creative world around it, amiga power, and the mix of games (which by genre were mostly worse that their competitors, but as a mix of pc and console games were unique at the time)
Owing to the posting of it's a skull on the music thing, I went and looked at a playthrough of Valhalla (In spoiler below) to see if it was as bad as it was made out to to be...
Based on that, the answer to the question "What was so good about the Amiga?" is emphatically not "Valhalla: Lord of Infinity"
19% was a very generous score. Everything, the animation, the puzzles, the sluggishness, that your reward for reaching the 4th level is the amazingly punchable main character saying "megamazing" all the time, the wandering through samey brown corridors is very, very bad indeed. It's be even worse if you also had to cope with not knowing where the death pits were.
And that's before you get to valhalla 3s plot of "I'm horny and there are no girls, find me girls".
Everything about the Valhalla games was just painfully slow. It would have been a halfway decent adventure game if everything just ticked on along a bit quicker and you didn't have to wait for the main character to speak at the sky every fucking time you did something.
1 where you play an utterly punchable prepuescent twerp. 2 is a prequel where you play the uncle who your task in the first is to kill 3 is a sequel where you play the now pubescent twerp who is "now at the the age where he notices girls, but when he tries to notice them there are none to notice" and wants a girl to notice
1 where you play an utterly punchable prepuescent twerp. 2 is a prequel where you play the uncle who your task in the first is to kill 3 is a sequel where you play the now pubescent twerp who is "now at the the age where he notices girls, but when he tries to notice them there are none to notice" and wants a girl to notice