Favourite Amiga Games?

[blueST]

Flip Martian said:

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

Yep, that's it. There's a video on YouTube. On the snow stage, your windscreen gradually obscured unless you used the wipers. It seemed the most realistic thing ever at the time.

Was anyone into demos? Just put the disc in and watch a display of graphics and music? I used to go into a grubby backstreet computer shop in Oldham, search through a paper catalogue and pay a bit if money for the shop keeper to make a disc copy. I had a demo called "Jesus on Es" that was awesome at the time.

ETA: a link to said demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_ww9A8LRt0&fea...

Edited by blueST on Wednesday 10th September 17:42

[scorp]

BillyWhizz888 said:

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

Good choice. I wasted spent hours on this, the grandfather of the RTS genre.

[anonymous-user]

scorp said:

BillyWhizz888 said:

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

Good choice. I wasted spent hours on this, the grandfather of the RTS genre.

Wormsign detected! That is/was a fantastic game.

[FourWheelDrift]

blueST said:

Yep, that's it. There's a video on YouTube. On the snow stage, your windscreen gradually obscured unless you used the wipers. It seemed the most realistic thing ever at the time.

Was anyone into demos? Just put the disc in and watch a display of graphics and music? I used to go into a grubby backstreet computer shop in Oldham, search through a paper catalogue and pay a bit if money for the shop keeper to make a disc copy. I had a demo called "Jesus on Es" that was awesome at the time.

ETA: a link to said demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_ww9A8LRt0&fea...

Edited by blueST on Wednesday 10th September 17:42

Yes.

Also similarly Med and Octamed music.

[qube_TA]

rufusruffcutt said:

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

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

The Amiga's sound was stereo, it could play 8-bit sampled PCM audio over 4 channels (two in the left channel and 2 in the right). The ST was mono, and pants.

[gaz1234]

Operation wolf

[anonymous-user]

rufusruffcutt said:

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

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

Magnificent.

Remember that like it was yesterday

[anonymous-user]

Only for the truly dedicated fans!

Or those with a very long drive ahead and need some new music....

Thankfully there is full track listing with time so you can skip straight to your favourites

SWIV still sounds amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvSfqBJi0ss

[3sixty]

NinjaPower said:

Only for the truly dedicated fans!

Or those with a very long drive ahead and need some new music....

Thankfully there is full track listing with time so you can skip straight to your favourites

SWIV still sounds amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvSfqBJi0ss

Brilliant. Still love Supercars II, Chaos Engine and Lotus II, soundtracks brought back a lot of memories.

[Flip Martian]

qube_TA said:

The Amiga's sound was stereo, it could play 8-bit sampled PCM audio over 4 channels (two in the left channel and 2 in the right). The ST was mono, and pants.

Amiga was better for sound and graphics, having the dedicated chips - made it the better games and graphics machine. ST had a weedy sound chip by comparison but still did pretty well in the games front. It did better on the productivity front and was widely used in recording studios (including mine) thanks to its MIDI sockets and take up in the music software world. Also in DTP for a while as it had a mono high resolution mode.

[FourWheelDrift]

FYI - old Amiga shoot-en up R-Type is today's free app on the Amazon android store.

[Flip Martian]

FourWheelDrift said:

FYI - old Amiga shoot-en up R-Type is today's free app on the Amazon android store.

Downlaoding now, ta!

[mike80]

Just seen you can get it for iphone too... hmmmmm...

Got my father in laws Amiga 500 and a load of games in the loft, will have to set it up soon!

[FourWheelDrift]

There's another old Amiga game free today for Android on the Amazon app store, Another World.