Best Looking: Atari ST Game?

zapiy · September 18, 2016, 17:56:51 PM

This is purely about how beautiful the game looks, regardless of technical prowess or how awesome the sounds and music is or indeed how poor the game plays..

As I have never owned an ST I will open this one up to you guys?

AtariCrypt · September 18, 2016, 19:14:20 PM

Hmmm tough one.... How about Magic Boy, Elf and Resolution 101 ?? Which are all in my humble opinion of course

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https://ataricrypt.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/elf.html
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Then again, there are so many. Black Lamp is another which I personally feel has always had some of the best sprites. So gorgeous! lol. I also looooove Zynaps, SWIV and Alien World. Strangely all are on AtariCrypt too (plug plug plug .. sorry lol)

Steve

zapiy · September 18, 2016, 20:38:07 PM

Actually Magic Boy is a fantastic shout. Your free to plug as a site reviewer and supporter lol.

Greyfox · September 18, 2016, 21:07:20 PM

There was many exceptional ST titles, anything from Thailion was mostly seen as pushing the envelope, games like Wings of Death, Ghost Battle, Seven Gates of Jambala, Chambers of Shaolin , No second Prize. Plus they all had kick ass music, another one I loved was Powerdrome etc..

zapiy · September 18, 2016, 21:20:38 PM

Agreed but this is about how it looked. You will find that the best looking game is usually lacking in some way.

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TrekMD · September 18, 2016, 21:21:42 PM

I don't know the ST enough to be able to list any games for it.

zapiy · September 18, 2016, 21:22:38 PM

It's a system I will be getting to know a lot better soon.

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AtariCrypt · September 19, 2016, 20:00:11 PM

Wolfenstein 3D (so long as you remember to hit the * key for high details!)
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Vadergb · September 28, 2016, 21:19:14 PM

I think the ST had a sweet spot - 1987-89 where it was the 16-bit machine that games were developed on then ported elsewhere, afterwards it seemed the ST got a greater percentage of Amiga ports.

After a quick look online the Bitmaps kept coming up - Xenon 2: Megablast, Speedball 2, Chaos Engine, Gods. Yes, there all on the Amiga but as ST Games go they were graphically great (plus very playable). SWIV looked pretty tasty too.

On a separate note is there anyone running an ST with an Floppy Emulator. Both my Amigas have the Cortex type drives and I would get an ST if there's an equivalent.