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The Official AMIGA "Rosetinted" Thread
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Rocky_Balboa
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Best thread ever!
TheIkariWarrior
Member
StormwatchGRE said:
Best Home Micro ever........well after the Speccy of course
cool
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3yQyxQ8cBo
oh god - the memories... i wish it would load so i coudl find the Rolf Harris break down...
man - the Amiga rocked the house for music.... well... bad acid/techno music!
The ST?... hmmm only midi!
oh god - the memories... i wish it would load so i coudl find the Rolf Harris break down...
man - the Amiga rocked the house for music.... well... bad acid/techno music!
The ST?... hmmm only midi!
travisbickle
Member
I had an Atari ST, basically the same thing.
GODS
Speedball
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
James Pond
Batman
Monkey Island
Sim City
Another World
My mate's dad used to come home from his work with a pile of games every other week, I never played as many games as I did then.
Also the games you could buy for £1.99 from the newsagents, Mousetrap was addictive, and you could make music, drawings and design games on it. Unbelievable.
GODS
Speedball
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
James Pond
Batman
Monkey Island
Sim City
Another World
My mate's dad used to come home from his work with a pile of games every other week, I never played as many games as I did then.
Also the games you could buy for £1.99 from the newsagents, Mousetrap was addictive, and you could make music, drawings and design games on it. Unbelievable.
Despite not being born at the time of release, i can honestly say that from the list of games here about 5 are in my top 20. Monkey island, cannon fodder (shareware version, years later :/ ), worms and Indiana jones and the fate of Atlantis. Also me and my buddy used to play that poker pro game even though we didnt know how to play poker
Infernal Monkey
Member
This thread makes me smile, and I didn't even own an Amiga of my own back in the day. I enjoyed the hell out of Zool, Blood Money and Die Hard though~
Well...
Kings Quest 1-6
Leisure Suit Larry 1-5
The Quest for Glory 1 & 2
Police Quest 1-3
Codename: Iceman
Colonels Bequest
Manhunter
The Black Cauldron
Mixed-up Mother Goose
Manhunter 1 & 2
Conquests of Camelot
Conquests of Long Bow
That's all I can think of at the moment. There are probably a few others and I didnt include any of the Dynamix games like Willy Beamish..
StormwatchGRE
Banned
travisbickle said:
No my friend, it wasn't the same thing at all...
You see, Amiga had 3 little friends called Paula,Agnus and Denise.....
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
SpoonyBard said:
You know, maybe it never was on Amiga. I had an ST and then an Amiga, and I worked in a store that sold both, so my memory of what was on which platform may be a bit hazy. I played it on ST, I was just thinking it was on Amiga as well.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
Oh, and this thread is a testament to why I don't get the NES nostalgia threads. To me, console gaming was in a sad, sad state when compared to the home computer scene.
Ignatz Mouse said:
Yeah, there was so much creativity going on around the C64/Spectrum time and then that just exploded with the Amiga. New genres were being created all over the place.
To have cutting-edge hardware that was that affordable, and open to anyone to develop on was easily one of the most creative times for the software industry.
I hate to say this being a huge Amiga fan but NES just did some genres better than Amiga.
Most Amiga platformers are quite sad compared to Mario 3 or even the first Mario.. stuff like Superfrog, Kid Chaos, Robocod and Zool are fun and all but..
Always wanted a Metroid type game on the Amiga too but never got one..
That said, Amiga was definitely the best gaming computer of its time.
Lonesome_Raod
Member
Apidya also rocked!
ah i remember playing this as a kid and loving it but being pretty scared of dying because i found that skull laughing so chilly...Nash said:One other game, that got very overlooked. Benefactor, by Digital Illusions.
A great little arcade puzzle game, sort of like Flashback crossed with Lemmings.
anyway no mention of bubba'n stix?
http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=197
the goblins series
http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=458
http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=459
http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=460
some cool conversion of board game such as heroquest and space crusade
http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=1268
http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=980
wizkid
http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=870
pushover
http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=870
apidya
http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=1191
Zweisy1 said:
Yeah, Amiga platformers were never usually refined enough. Even Giana Sisters didn't get it quite right. The platform shooters were much more successful though - the Turrican games, Ruff 'n' Tumble ...
The only console quality platformer was one that appeared when the Amiga was practically dead:
It was bit too easy, but had really good mechanics.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
True, platformers were better on NES. But I was never a big platformer fan, particularly shooting platformers. My problem with the NES was the lack of variety compared to the ST and Amiga scenes.
Infernal Monkey
Member
Philthy
Member
So much love for my old A500. Back then, it was almost a lifestyle. It was scary how tight knit the community was with each other. When you ran into someone who owned an Amiga on a BBS or in person, it was like you were part of a sacred brotherhood of Commodore. The only thing missing was a secret handshake.
Turrican II and Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back were quite possibly the best games created. Even today they would still stand up in game play and design.
How many hours I spent flying around in Falcon 3.0 and F/A-18. Starglider 2 and Damocles brought me to entirely different worlds. Cybercron ]I[ allowed me to stomp around in my powersuit through a huge fortress filled with traps. Armourgeddon was simply one of the best Null-Modem games to play with a friend, that and Lotus Turbo Esprit 2. And who could forget the incredible intro to Blood Money? There's a whole lot going on! yeah. yeah!
Oh man. Where is my time machine.
Turrican II and Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back were quite possibly the best games created. Even today they would still stand up in game play and design.
How many hours I spent flying around in Falcon 3.0 and F/A-18. Starglider 2 and Damocles brought me to entirely different worlds. Cybercron ]I[ allowed me to stomp around in my powersuit through a huge fortress filled with traps. Armourgeddon was simply one of the best Null-Modem games to play with a friend, that and Lotus Turbo Esprit 2. And who could forget the incredible intro to Blood Money? There's a whole lot going on! yeah. yeah!
Oh man. Where is my time machine.
meltpotato
Member
not nearly enough
in this thread
in this thread
travisbickle
Member
Anyone remeber Silly Putty?
http://hol.abime.net/4983
And that game with the ant from the wotsits pack, where you'd push dominos over, great days.
I was going out with a bird last year who had an Amiga, she was going to give it to me but we ended up breaking up, Bitch
http://hol.abime.net/4983
And that game with the ant from the wotsits pack, where you'd push dominos over, great days.
I was going out with a bird last year who had an Amiga, she was going to give it to me but we ended up breaking up, Bitch
replicashooter
Banned
Shazapp
Member
I used to work for Amigaman, a fairly large mail order Amiga store in the U.S. I got to play with all sorts of Amiga stuff as soon as it was released...and got paid for it.
From 1991 to 1995, I owned all kinds of Amiga hardware: Amiga 500, Amiga 3000T, Amiga 4000/030, Amiga 1200 and the CD32. I probably spent more money on them than I should have, but it was a hell of a lot of fun.
My favorite games were Civilization, Pinball Dreams, Alien Breed, The Chaos Engine, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and Lemmings. Also there was a shareware game (I can't remember the name) that was a great Arkanoid clone. One of the guys at Amigaman paid to register it and we sat and played it all day between phone calls.
I miss those days.
From 1991 to 1995, I owned all kinds of Amiga hardware: Amiga 500, Amiga 3000T, Amiga 4000/030, Amiga 1200 and the CD32. I probably spent more money on them than I should have, but it was a hell of a lot of fun.
My favorite games were Civilization, Pinball Dreams, Alien Breed, The Chaos Engine, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and Lemmings. Also there was a shareware game (I can't remember the name) that was a great Arkanoid clone. One of the guys at Amigaman paid to register it and we sat and played it all day between phone calls.
I miss those days.
TheIkariWarrior
Member
travisbickle said:
NOT. only thing they shared in common was a 68000 processor. the Amiga's custom graphics and audio processors made the difference.
travisbickle
Member
TheIkariWarrior said:
I just meant the games, I'm not going to start some system tech war!
miguel_c_hammer
Member
Pezking said:Firepower
This game rocked hard.
Thread needs more:
Hybris
Bubble Ghost
Sidewinder
Garfield: A Winter's Tail
Quadralien
Aaaargh
Crystal Hammer
Future Tank
Pimpbaa
Member
DCharlie said:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3yQyxQ8cBo
oh god - the memories... i wish it would load so i coudl find the Rolf Harris break down...
man - the Amiga rocked the house for music.... well... bad acid/techno music!
The ST?... hmmm only midi!
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
Now this thread is legendary. Soooo many great games. They just kept coming. And the demos, dudes. Remember this one?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4698182038323824986&q=Nexus+7+(Andromeda)
It's just pure digital sex, right there.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4698182038323824986&q=Nexus+7+(Andromeda)
It's just pure digital sex, right there.
DrunkenRage
Member
Atari ST nonsense aside.
I was a huge fan of the Psygnosis games - Barbarian and Obliterator were real standouts when it came to incorporating mouse-based play mechanics in what were essentially platform games. The Shadow of the Beast series (loved the intro for 2) was pretty cool, but I liked the other Psygnosis titles that weren't necessarily as high profile - Killing Game Show, Agony, Armour-Geddon, Leander.
Death Sword (Barbarian in the UK) which was one of the best fighters ever made? The risk-vs-reward of attempting to slice off the head of your opponent was a gamble worth taking, if for nothing more than the style points.
How about the DigiTek demo that used the Art of Noise's "Paranoimia" as the backing track? That demo must have sold thousands of Amigas on its own. Classic stuff.
I still have all of my old games plus a 2000HD and a 500, but the hardware's failing. Time to scour the classifieds, methinks.
I was a huge fan of the Psygnosis games - Barbarian and Obliterator were real standouts when it came to incorporating mouse-based play mechanics in what were essentially platform games. The Shadow of the Beast series (loved the intro for 2) was pretty cool, but I liked the other Psygnosis titles that weren't necessarily as high profile - Killing Game Show, Agony, Armour-Geddon, Leander.
Death Sword (Barbarian in the UK) which was one of the best fighters ever made? The risk-vs-reward of attempting to slice off the head of your opponent was a gamble worth taking, if for nothing more than the style points.
How about the DigiTek demo that used the Art of Noise's "Paranoimia" as the backing track? That demo must have sold thousands of Amigas on its own. Classic stuff.
I still have all of my old games plus a 2000HD and a 500, but the hardware's failing. Time to scour the classifieds, methinks.