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The Official AMIGA "Rosetinted" Thread

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Wired

Member
Shit, I don't go long without missing the good old Amiga days. I still unpack one of my Amigas from time to time just to play some of the amazing games it had, and don't get me started on the music...

This has to be the game I spent the most time playing back in the day. I damn well loved it, and still do.
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Such an amazing game, before it was released and I could afford it I used to read and reread the previews and reviews over and over. I even "owned" a pirated copy I refused to play because I wanted the original :) The only thing I don't like about it is the music, while not bad I still think original compsitions would've been better.

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Amazing Dungeon crawler, still think it's great but I still get lost. Never had the patience to draw maps.

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One of my most favorite adventure games of all time, I just think it's incredibly beautiful.

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What can I say, really fantastic game.




Wont bore you with mentioning all the great games I've already seen in the thread, but I loved beating my brother in Speedball 2 over and over again, man I rule. Another World and Flashback, two of the greatest games of all time. And Adventure games all over. As far as gaming go the Amiga days were the best in my life, I'm sure nostalgia has something to do with it though :)
 
V

volmer

Member
meltpotato said:
not nearly enough

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in this thread
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The Settlers was awesome. One of the best in my book. I remember getting a 1MB memory upgrade to be able to generate larger maps, and to be able to listen to the main theme while playing. :)
 
L

Lord Error

Insane For Sony
Most of my best gaming memories were Amiga related.

- Games I enjoyed so much (Warhead, Wings, Gods, Monkey Island, Speedball 2, Beast series and many many more)

- Graphics software that let me be as creative as it was possible possible on that kind of budget

- Scene demos that amazed me and to good part even shaped my professional career choice and work philosophy

- And most importantly because of all the amazing people I met through just making stuff and talking about various things about Amiga. Some of the best people I know and best friends I have, and some that are now gone, I would have never met otherwise.
 
Haunted

Haunted

Member
So many memories... The list of awesome games I played on the Amiga would be too long - most of the games were mentioned already anyway. :)

This thread made me replay my 15th Anniversary Edition of Another World though - still so good!
 
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Ogni-XR21

Member
I used to have (well I still have it) a program called Shoot Em Up Construction Kitt - short S.E.U.K. which could be used to make rather simple shmups. I spent countless hours with that program. And not to forget Deluxe Paint III & IV which I used to make all sorts of animations.

Good times indeed.

When my brothers and me got our Amiga (kickstart version 1.3) it would not run P.O.W. so we exchanged it for an older model the store had. So we got a 1.2 kickstart Amiga. BIG MISTAKE! There were plenty of games that would not run properly. I played through Monkey Island on that Amiga with the game crashing on me every 5 - 10 minutes. Even the kickstart version switch I got later on did not help at all...
 
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Superfrog

Member
Awesome thread. The Amiga era was the best time for me as a gamer. I started with an A500, moved on to an A1200 with turbo card and hdd and ended up with a CD32 which I still own (because floppy disks simply suck as a collector's storage medium). Very nice to see some not so well known games mentioned here that I loved - like Hunter or Epic.

I saw the link posted here before - but just in case someone missed it, this is a truly awesome Amiga games database:

http://hol.abime.net
 
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Superfrog

Member
Martial Loh said:
Lotus 3 had one of the best soundtracks of the last century.
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Speaking of soundtracks - don't miss this brilliant compilation of Amiga soundtrack remixes:

http://www.synsoniq.de/productdetails.php?pid=567&PHPSESSID=ce239c8c90104f6b4a787d18ad943ec7

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CD1:
01. Apidya "Suite" (Hülsbeck)
02. Gods "Into the Wonderful" (Nation 12)
03. Theatre of Death (Clarke)
04. Ghouls'n Ghosts (Follin)
05. Turrican 2 (Hülsbeck)
06. Turrican 3 ("2nd Floor") (Hülsbeck)
07. Fire and Ice (Page)
08. Pinball Dreams (Gustafsson)
09. Disposable Hero (Hoekman & Holt)
10. The Chaos Engine (Joseph)
11. Agony (Wright)
12. Death Mask "Something Evil" (Owens)
13. Defender of the Crown (Cuomo)
14. Lotus 3: The Ultimate Challenge (Phelan)
15. The Plague (Klaren)
16. Alien Breed (Brimble)
17. Aquaventura (Wright)
18. Ambermoon (Steinwachs)

CD2:
01. Wings of Death (Hippel)
02. No Second Prize (Steinwachs)
03. Speedball 2 "Brutal Deluxe" (Nation 12)
04. Brat (Lynne)
05. Amberstar (Hippel)
06. Shadow of the Beast 2 (Wright)
07. Uridium 2 (Page)
08. Cardiaxx (Simmonds)
09. Pinball Fantasies (Gustafsson)
10. Elfmania (Eeben)
11. Overdrive (Brimble)
12. Ork (Bartlett)
13. Leander (Simmonds)
14. Obsession "Desert Run" (Almered)
15. Katakis (Zendeh)
16. Super Cars 2 (Leitch)
17. Trolls (Nixon)
 
M

Mr Toast

Member
Lemming_JRS said:
People, people... this is the ultimate game on any system. If this was to come out for XBLA or PS3, I'd pick one of those systems up just to be able to play it against people online...

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If you didnt make this post, I would have.

edit: 10-9 Brutal Deluxe def Super Nashwan in the Cup final was my favourite moment ever. :D
 
H

haowan

Member
Exile
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Needs no introduction:
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Project X
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Cadaver
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Populous 2
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And of course:
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and a quick mention for... uhm... keef the thief, which I completed. move along now
 
M

Mr Toast

Member
Infernal Monkey said:
Oh hey there
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Holy sh*t. Thats awesome :lol

I remember when my dad got us an Amiga 500 for christmas back in 1988. I had asked for a commodore 64 but was still happy with the A500. We had Destroyer and Starray to start of with, both were awesome.

I'd say the best games we had on it were:
Speedball 2
Golden Axe
Final Fight
Great Giana Sisters
Bubble Bobble
Defender of the Crown
Rodland
Lotus Turbo Challenge
Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
Allan Borders Cricket
Silkworm
Moonshine Racers
Blade Warrior (that was scary)
Some early polygonal 3D space shooter, where you were in a computer shooting pods and stuff. I wish I knew the name :(
Menace (Gradius style shooter)
Pinball Dreams
Double Dragon 2
Stunt Car Racer
Some speedboat racer I forget the name of.

And Im probably missing a lot more.

We had the system until 1997 and until then it was still my main gaming machine, only surpassed when we got a Playstation. It's probably my favourite gaming machine of all time.
 
DCharlie

DCharlie

And even i am moderately surprised
Do you even know what midi is? I hate when people assume midi means shitty sound. The Atari ST sounded shitty because it had a shitty sound chip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midi
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hold up there buddy, stop wetting your knickers - i was talking about wider aspects of music, not just the chip music.

I had both ST and Amiga as already stated - i used the ST for music creation via midi instruments (Steinberg) which the ST obviously had a massive advantage in having built in midi.

So , as i said, for music :

man - the Amiga rocked the house for music.... well... bad acid/techno music!

The ST?... hmmm only midi! ;)
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- the Amiga was way better than the ST - unless we are talking about Midi, in which case, the ST was better suited for that.

Clean up in thread 2?
 
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S. L.

Member
pr0cs said:
I forgot about this:

Mega lo Mania
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has to be one of the very first real time strategy type games ever created. I loved this damn game.
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oh shit yes! Mega Lo Mania
Loved it too, thou i was pretty bad at it
 
D

DDayton

(more a nerd than a geek)
If I recall my computer/game history rightly... the Amiga was (essentially) designed by many of the same folks behind the real Atari computers (8-bit series, not ST), and for a while it was going to be the replacement for the 8-bit line... until Commodore bought it instead of Atari.

The whole Commodore/Atari thing is amusing, especially because the Tramiels essentially got kicked out of Commodore and bought out Atari, only to run it into the ground.
 
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Mr Toast

Member
FlyinJ said:
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It was not very good. Hopefully a XBLA iteration would be a better port.
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Agreed. Whilst thats currently the only version of Speedball 2 I own, it does its job. The music in it is wrong, however. Sadly :(

Needs XBLA port badly.
 
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Ignatz Mouse

Banned
DavidDayton said:
If I recall my computer/game history rightly... the Amiga was (essentially) designed by many of the same folks behind the real Atari computers (8-bit series, not ST), and for a while it was going to be the replacement for the 8-bit line... until Commodore bought it instead of Atari.

The whole Commodore/Atari thing is amusing, especially because the Tramiels essentially got kicked out of Commodore and bought out Atari, only to run it into the ground.
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Yup. I was pretty deeply into the Atari computer scene, and followed the Amiga as well. Strange times.

I did get to meet the Tramiels at CES though, that was cool.
 
8

8bit

Knows the Score
pr0cs said:
I forgot about this:

Mega lo Mania
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has to be one of the very first real time strategy type games ever created. I loved this damn game.
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We've advanced a tech level!
 
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Diablohead

Member
To be honest I never realised the amiga was so powerful at the time, but I had consoles before a "pc" so never got a chance to properly compare and learn how to use one.
 
G

Gowans

Member
haowan said:
And of course:
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and a quick mention for... uhm... keef the thief, which I completed. move along now
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Ahh the memorys, the first program I used to look at porn and get busted :D

Also spent hours on it creating images and effects, first steps into my new media design carrer :)
 
L

Lord Error

Insane For Sony
Psygnosis CG intros > *

Anyone remembers the Beast 2 intro? I was literally floored when I saw that playing off of the floppy disk on a machine with 512kb RAM.

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Not to mention it was rain and thunderstorm outside when I first played this. Very chilling!
 
C

Crag Dweller

aka kindbudmaster
Psygnosis were amazing when it came to stuff like that back then. Does anyone remember the demo roll floating around the time of the 1200 launch that had a jet firing a missle at a drone of some kind? That was jaw-dropping back when I first saw it.
 
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Johnny Stuntman

Member
My top two greatest games of all time are both Amiga games, Secret of Monkey Island and Sensible World of Soccer. But I will say even they fail to compare to ....

ADVANCED LAWNMOVER SIMULATOR

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looking for this image, I discovered that this was originally a Spectrum game but I first discovered it on an old Amiga Power cover disk. Ahh the glory days.
 
L

Lord Error

Insane For Sony
Lemming_JRS said:
YouTube is your friend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syOtxq_S9Jk
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UAE is my even better friend! I have this long version of intro, and I own the actual boxed original of the game :)

Although yeah, the game is pretty much impossible without the infinite energy cheat.

neopokekun said:
Here is a playthrough of the entire game (54meg), from the intro to the ending. Great music and atmosphere but stupid difficulty level and unfair oh-now-you-have-to-start-over-from-the-beginning-puzzles.
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Thanks! Downloading now, but I finished the game with a cheat. Speaking of music, I LOVED that music on Beast 2 title screen.

Nash said:
I loved Wings.

The best of the Cinemaware games in my opinion.
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No question about it. I loved their other games, but Wings was something else. That and Warhead are probably my two favorites from that period.
 
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Lemming_JRS

Member
Marconelly said:
UAE is my even better friend! I have this long version of intro, and I own the actual boxed original of the game :)

Although yeah, the game is pretty much impossible without the infinite energy cheat.
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And even then, it's pretty freakin' difficult. Psygnosis weren't much for playtesting for difficulty back in the day.

Wings is probably my favorite Cinemaware game as well -- most of their other titles, while fun and cool to look at, weren't much more than a collection of minigames. King of Chicago was pretty cool, too, if only because it played out very differently each time.





On another topic, that Amiga longplay video site is awesome, but can anyone actually get the movies to play? I can't seem to find the right codec...
 
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Lord Error

Insane For Sony
Lemming_JRS said:
On another topic, that Amiga longplay video site is awesome, but can anyone actually get the movies to play? I can't seem to find the right codec...
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What I did is I changed the extension from .mp4 to .mpg and Windows Media Player 10 played it fine. mp4 extension was assigned to Quicktime on my computer and with it I was just getting black screen.

Also, looks like it's using FFDShow decoders for audio and video (which I have installed).
 
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Crag Dweller

aka kindbudmaster
Kindbudmaster said:
Psygnosis were amazing when it came to stuff like that back then. Does anyone remember the demo roll floating around the time of the 1200 launch that had a jet firing a missle at a drone of some kind? That was jaw-dropping back when I first saw it.
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Found it. It's on a FM Towns demo reel though. Still, it's the same as I remember seeing it back in the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BU4JoNBmTg
 
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dak1dsk1

Banned
The NA ads were great too. They licensed the Goonies soundtrack for it. Genlocks were sold out, so they bundled my Amiga with a vcr instead.

A local PBS television station still uses amiga for credit titles etc.

Another little know fact is that it was used (to some degree) to create the cgi special effects for one of the Robocop movies.

The best way to relive the amiga glory is to get the CD32 and a bunch of those 'homebrew' homage disks that contain 888 games, demoes, trax and animation. :)
 
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Ignatz Mouse

Banned
Speaking of homwbrew, anybody else get into the Fred Fish disks as they were released?

Amiga shareware/freeware was pretty damned good.
 
C

cs060mk2

Member
Amiga is a special computer for many. It is not just games, it is the setting when you had one (often childhood), the programs you used, Workbench, modules etc etc, it all sums up to a fantastic package!

Anyways, I have a A1200T with a graphics board and 060 turbo board that I play music on. Then I have an A500 with a 030 turbo and an IDE harddrive to play WHDload installed games on, no more Amiga floppies!

And BTW, Oids was never released on the Amiga.
 
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SpoonyBard

Banned
No-one else liked Virus? I always played it a bit every now and then, even though I pretty much sucked in it :) The graphics were great.

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Conqueror also used same kind of graphics engine.
 
8

8bit

Knows the Score
SpoonyBard said:
No-one else liked Virus? I always played it a bit every now and then, even though I pretty much sucked in it :) The graphics were great.

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Conqueror also used same kind of graphics engine.
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Aka Zarch:

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

Yeah, it was a great game, but needed to be controlled by the keyboard IIRC.

Also, while I remember I doubt anyone has mentioned Walker so far.
 
Red Scarlet

Red Scarlet

Member
Is anyone here that uses UAE familiar with the video recording? It'd crash whenever I would try to make some videos.

I played through Xenon, didn't know there was a 2. Did Xenon 2 have simply flying stages or was it like 1 where you could be on the ground on levels 1 and 3 and fly on them too, whereas levels 2 and 4 were flying only.

One shooter I haven't seen mentioned yet that I enjoyed playing was called Sidewinder; anyone play through that?
 
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