Favourite Amiga Games?

[gaz1234]

AlexC1981 said:

I recently lost some time to K240. Works perfectly on WinUAE emulator.

It's the sound effects in these old games that really take me back.

Wtf

[FourWheelDrift]

gaz1234 said:

Psygnosis, the hardest games.

Shadow of the Beast.

"ooooo look at that parallax scrolling......................WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED THERE!"




Not quite as bad as Dragon's Lair and Space Ace.

"Wait......wait........wait.........[pushes joystick to right]................dead again"

This is what my playthrough attempts consisted of - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l464ZF5jK3Y and repeat.

[anonymous-user]

gaz1234 said:

AlexC1981 said:

I recently lost some time to K240. Works perfectly on WinUAE emulator.

It's the sound effects in these old games that really take me back.

Wtf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K240

I had never heard of it either to be honest.

[Hoink]

gaz1234 said:

another world

Currently available on Xbox Live and I'm tempted.

[simonrockman]

I think the game I where most often suffered from "just one more game" until the sun came up was Lemmings.

I loved F18 interceptor, and have to give a mention to StarGlider and then lots of the other Raindbird games including Carrier Command. Speedball was great.

But then I was employed to play Amiga games.

Simon

[AlexC1981]

NinjaPower said:

gaz1234 said:

AlexC1981 said:

I recently lost some time to K240. Works perfectly on WinUAE emulator.

It's the sound effects in these old games that really take me back.

Wtf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K240

I had never heard of it either to be honest.

It's a great game. You work for a mining corporation and the games starts you off running a new colony on an asteroid in unexplored sector K240. You mine the asteroids in the sector for resources to build spaceships, missiles, buildings etc and sell off the surplus to the corporation you work for. Ultimately you have to kick the alien competition out of the sector by military force.

The later PC version; Fragile Allegiance is a lot better, but it's nice to play the original once in a while. It's the only Amiga game I still play occasionally.

[snoopy25]

Sensible world of soccer was THE best football game in my opinion, especially the swerves you could put on the ball

[gruntmonster]

dont forget chaps 'Archon' and 'Archon2'...chess with a twist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6mRUMU0S4

[Blib]

snoopy25 said:

Sensible world of soccer was THE best football game in my opinion, especially the swerves you could put on the ball

I completely agree with this.

[Agoogy]

No-one mentioned Operation Wolf?!

or Test Drive...

[gaz1234]

UFO enemy unknown

[rufusruffcutt]

Agoogy said:

or Test Drive...

Good one, I used to think the graphics were amazing on that in hindsight they were for 1987!

[BillyWhizz888]

Still got my Amiga 1200 and had it on the other night

Fav game dune 2 think it's the strategy side i like and building a big base

Have a mountain of games ect

[ph1l5]

Does anyone remember "Pirates" that was a brilliant game

[boobles]

"Test Drive" was one of my favourites........

http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=http://www.youtube...

[blueST]

I had a rally driving game, I think you were Carlos Sainz in a Celica. I remember it was really good, possibly just because you had functioning wipers. Anyone recall it?

[gaz1234]

blueST said:

I had a rally driving game, I think you were Carlos Sainz in a Celica. I remember it was really good, possibly just because you had functioning wipers. Anyone recall it?

yep

[Flip Martian]

blueST said:

I had a rally driving game, I think you were Carlos Sainz in a Celica. I remember it was really good, possibly just because you had functioning wipers. Anyone recall it?

Wasn't that "Toyota Celica GT"? I remember the wipers and the moving steering wheel...

[Pommygranite]

Fantastic thread. Takes you back to a time when life was much simpler, no mortgage, kids, direct debits, supercars were rare and exciting to spot, less talentless celebs and proper music.

It makes you realise how overly complex games are now - then all games were simpler and what you accessed straight away is what you got and it simply got harder. Now you need 40 million button pressing combos, you never know if you've accessed all the good stuff in a game and you can buy to win. I miss the days when the graphics were all on one screen, simple yet addictive gameplay and you understood straight away what was needed and those good at the game were simply better - not that they modded the game and paid to download advanced content.

My top list:

Syndicate

Lemmings

Championship Manager

Test Drive

Settlers

Indy 500

Sensible Soccer

Kick Off 2

Cannon Fodder

Speedball 2 (ice cream!)

Lotus

It Came From The Desert

North & South

Stunt Car Racer

Sim City

Flashback

Populous

IK +

Jimmy Whites Snooker

Fiendish Freddy

Defender of the Crown

[rufusruffcutt]

Just remembered the Gremlin / Magnetic Fields intro with Wagner in stunning mono sound.

Intro here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldBw8kuJIRo