Amiga Thread

[zapiy]

Well i am rather please to say i was and i still am an Amiga 500 owner.

Must have a fair few games, (may have to count one day).

Loved SWOS, Gods, R-Type, Strider, Speedball and many other.

Remeber the click and clunk noise when putting in a disk.

Great memories.

[Havantgottaclue]

I came to the Amiga party fairly late on - I bought an Amiga 1200 in 1992. Coming from the C64 it was only natural that 2 games I took to straight away were the two Turrican games. I later got hold of Turrican 3 which of course was a Megadrive conversion. It didn't go down that well with the reviewers IIRC who thought the less sprawling levels of Turrican 3 were a bit restrictive. Personally I didn't mind, I enjoyed all 3 in different ways.

I enjoyed the Sid Meier games in particular - Railroad Tycoon and Civilization I'd already played on the ST and the PC respectively. But the game that ate up more of my time than any was Colonization. There was a lot more thought put into adapting the game for the Amiga's UI than had been the case with Sid's earlier games, which still clearly betrayed their MS-DOS origins, visually.

[Greyfox]

Yes..I joined the ranks of the Amiga back in 1991, when just after selling my Atari ST (holds head in shame 

[TL]

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

[Anonymous]

I have an Amiga 600 in my loft, sadly no games left but in time i aim to change that. Shadow of the Beast, Flashback, Another World are all the games i would need to be happy.

[zapiy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuo2lkfdA9M

A little vid i made.

[onthinice]

Great video! Nice selection of games that really show off the system.

[zapiy]

Cheers again, like the last vids I made. It's more a most played top 10 than a overall top 10.

[dougtitchmarsh]

My brother was the Amiga owner in our house, and had an A500, then A1200. I used to muscle in on some games such as SWIV and Zool.

I recently found my Amiga purchases in my garage in a stack box, somehow I have ended up with 3 of them and can't find a power supply anywhere Doh!

[Katzkatz]

The Amiga is probably my favourite retro computer of all time.  I got mine back in 1990.  It was 'The Flights of Fantasy' pack. 

There are so many great games for it : Monkey Island, Civilization, First Samurai, Rainbow Islands, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Jaguar XJ220, etc.  I could go on for a very long time.

I did a few serial link multiplayer link up games as well.  Knights of the Sky and Populous II were great with that feature. 

I did also use it for some serious work.  I did have AMOS for it, but only did a few simple things in that.  I loved using Deluxe Paint as well(a massive shame that EA didn't continue that for the PC, in my opinion).  I played around with NoiseTracker and OctaMED as well.  I also used Text Engine for word processing. 

So many happy memories of that machine.  It was so far ahead of its time. 

[TL]

Review of the A600 from The One magazine:

[Bobinator]

I never had an Amiga, myself, but I have to admit that there's a ton of exclusives on the thing that are worth trying out. It's mostly the platformers that I'm into, but there's a few pretty good SHMUPs on there, too, like Banshee. I still keep wanting to get one of those really, really powerful Amigas that can play Quake, just for the novelty value.

Amiga Longplay [112] Ruff 'n' Tumble

For the record, this would have to be my favorite game on the system. It just feels so... authentically console like.

[Alberto 2K]

Wow, that game looks great! I also need to get one Amiga sooner or later, after my bad experience with the CD32 seller I almost gave up...

With a 1200 and CF card adaptor I would be happy!

[Gorf]

Well....call me strange but I see nothing in those games that could not be done on a Genny or an ST
for that matter.

[Bobinator]

Well....call me strange but I see nothing in those games that could not be done on a Genny or an ST
for that matter.

Well, if we're talking games that weren't on the Genesis/Megadrive, of which there were plenty, there you go. It's all about the exclusives. You have a game that you can't play on anything else, there's your edge when you compare these sorts of things.