These 'early days' Amiga games are mostly simple ports or 'still getting a feel for the hardware', with Marble Madness & Defender of the Crown being the standouts, Funny how the Donald Duck game is an incredibly direct port, 8-bit C64-looking graphics and all.
Hard to imagine the Amiga was already around even before I had a C64! a fantasy computer unattainable at the time. These early titles like Defender of the Crown and Marble Madness made me drool and showed off what this 'future' machine could do and what was to come with '16bit'. But the rest of these were sometimes even worse than their 8bit counterparts. Well, Silent Service, but I was never into simulators. A shame the Amiga never got Japanese studios to develop for it.
Out of these games I played Leader Board the most, its really fun. I recall having to use Kickstart 1.0 on my Amiga 1000 for it to work. Very few games actually needed that.
About all I can remember about this thing was that WE all had REAL computers (IBM's) and REAL games, and when a friend announced he had purchased one, I asked him, Why did you buy a computer called "My Mexican Girlfriend?"...
I remember having WAR ZONE (1986) for my Amiga 500 as the budget priced 16-BIT POCKET POWER COLLECTION. LEADER BOARD is still one of the best golf games ever 😺👍🕹️. DEFENDER OF THE CROWN is still my favourite classic game 😺👍🕹️. MARBLE MADNESS - an excellent and inspiring arcade conversion 😺👍🕹️. I remember having WAR ZONE (1986) for my Amiga 500 as the budget priced 16-BIT POCKET POWER COLLECTION. LEADER BOARD is still one of the best golf games ever 😺👍🕹️. DEFENDER OF THE CROWN is still my favourite classic game 😺👍🕹️. MARBLE MADNESS - an excellent and inspiring arcade conversion 😺👍🕹️. ROGUE - a legendary classic role-playing game from Epyx 😺👍🕹️.
