I remmy when the amiga have best game called Stardust ( from Team 17 who bought from Bloodhouse- very talent programmer stuff) and the games was AMAZING even today!
what Amiga games did amaze you at the time?
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A few games that amazed me were, Chuck Rock, Speed Ball 2, Magic Pockets ( as made famous on Motor Mouth ) and Shadow Of The Beast 2 & 3.
I thought that Magic Pockets was an extremely original game, albiet quite hard. Loved the cycling part at the end of the level to get to the exit. Brilliantly drawn graphics too.
Battle Squadron as in Hybris 2 had to be up there with the best. I didin't ever play Magic Pockets, Dan Malone was the artist who did that I think?
Speedball 2 was >The< 2 player game as far as I am concerned...
Technically I'd have to say Turrican 2 was the stuff.
Speedball 2, SWOS , Cannnon fodder , turrican 2(it is was lots harder on Amiga than C64 ) is great game =)
Gotta agree with those hotshot, also I liked chaos engine, lotus esprit and gods even though the gameplay was a little slow.
Yeah! Chaos engine was the bees knees. As were most Bitmap Brothers (http://www.bitmap-brothers.co.uk/) games. Pysgnosis also did some great games.
@Shockwave: I remember you saying about Dan Malone being in a group at the ezboard site.
Quotechaos engine, lotus esprit and gods even though the gameplay was a little slow.
Yeah I love chaos engine, lotus esprit and gods(even thought gods was Hard game!!!)
I was big fan of team 17,Bitmap Brothers and also Pysgnosis who make great games!
I remmy when my mate who trying to finished Shadow Of The Beast and it took him 2 years(HE got stuck in to puzzle that he couldnt get pass it but now he can LOL) to finished it and all he got was CRAPPEST Ending saying
Congarultion
LOL =)
Alien Breed ( Team 17 ) is another classic. I remember that some people were making a remake in Blitz as a community project; even had input from the original team behind it.
I have finished Alien breed 1, 2( that was lots harder but still great game) and I do love intro of Alien Breed 1 which is fab.
Team 17 always make some fab coding trick like 3D Starfields, roll image, muti scanline and more!
Probably the game i enjoyed most when I had an Amiga was Leander. Project x had amazing graphics and was fun too. My favorite shareware games were Jump & Roll and Transplant :)
Project X was mentally difficult. Looked the biz but I could not cope with it!
Rtype was a good one. That was a Factor 5 conversion I think. Also you got better music on the titlescreen if you had 1mb!
I had 1MB :D Never played r-type myself, but yeah project x was very hard. I never made it past the fourth boss :(
If commodore dident want a ridiculous 20 quid for the kickstart rom id play it again emulated using saved states. Then I'd be a winner :updance:
Right at the end of the Amiga, Jim Power and Leander came out. They were incredible. RType was good, Magic Pockets, Xenon II, Turrican, James Pond...
Jim
Speedball 2 is getting a remake by the bitmap bros. Hope they dont ruin it by trying to add to what is a classic game to begin with.
I played all there games on amiga, Gods was a favorite of mine. As for Shooters, R-Type was close to arcade perfect on Amiga, Factor 5 did an excellent job but then they had made Denaris before it which was so close to R-Type in style and play and was itself an awesome game. I believe they went on to make SW:Rouge Leader on Game cube, one of the best star wars space shooters for years.
Virus was one amiga game I liked but truely sucked at playing, Menace and Blood Money were good shooters, Coded by DMA design who later made the GTA games.
So many classic games were on the Amiga, it was the machine to have when I was a teen. Its what really got me into coding as a hobby with the likes of AMOS and BlitzBasic 2 :)